Journal of Interdisciplinary Qur'anic Studies

Journal of Interdisciplinary Qur'anic Studies

The Journal of Interdisciplinary Qur’anic Studies (JIQS) is a bilingual, double‑blind peer‑reviewed academic journal established in June 2022. JIQS promotes interdisciplinary research on the Qur’an by welcoming diverse methodological and theoretical approaches from across the humanities and sciences.

We invite original research and review articles that explore Qur’anic studies in relation to other disciplines, including but not limited to: Psychology, Sociology, Anthropology, Linguistics, Literature, Management, Economics, Law, Politics, History, Ethics, Philosophy, Archaeology, Geology, Biology, Chemistry, Physics, Astronomy, Meteorology, Medicine, Engineering, and Computer Science.

The journal places special emphasis on applications of artificial intelligence to Qur’anic studies, particularly work in Computational Qur’an Mining.

JIQS adheres to the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE) and upholds high ethical standards in all editorial and publishing practices. The journal is Open Access: full texts of articles are freely available and may be reused under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) license.

An ORCID iD is mandatory for all authors. Register at https://orcid.org/register.


Owner & Publisher: Shahid Beheshti University, Iran

Co-Publisher:  Contemporary Thoughts Press, England

Language: English, Persian (Abstracts)

Publication Ethics: Adheres to the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE) guidelines

Access Policy: Open Access

Peer Review Policy: Double-blind peer review

Plagiarism Checker: iThenticate (English), Samimnoor (Persian)

Article Processing Charges (APCs) for Iranian Authors:

  • Peer Review: 3,000,000 IRR
  • Publication Fee (upon acceptance): 3,000,000 IRR

Article Processing Charges (APCs) for Non-Iranian Authors: waived — no payment required.

Average Review Time: Approximately 4 Months

Acceptance Rate: 30 %

Copyright Policy: Copyright retained by the Authors

License: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC-BY 4.0)

Indexing: ISC, EBSCO, Google Scholar, Civilica, Magiran, Noormags

National Rating: Grade B (Ministry of Science, Iran)

Publication frequency: Quarterly (The journal changed its publication frequency from biannual to quarterly starting in 2026)

Keywords Cloud

  • the Qur’an
  • The Qur’an
  • Scientific Interpretation
  • The Qur’an and science
  • Scientific Miracle
  • Arabic Language
  • The Qur’an and Psychology
  • Qur’an
  • The Qur\'an
  • Natural Language Processing
  • Deep Learning
  • Qur\'an and Science
  • Instruction
  • Interpretation of the Qur’an
  • hegemony
  • Natural Language Processing (NLP)
  • Quran
  • Intelligence
  • Transformers
  • hermeneutics
  • inference
  • Human dignity
  • The Qur’an and Science
  • Transcendent Philosophy
  • Qur’an and science
  • Searle’s Theory
  • Angelika Neuwirth
  • Intertextuality
  • the Qur\'an and science
  • customary interpretation
  • Tajdīd and Iṣlāḥ
  • Tefsir
  • The Qur’an and Biology
  • Religious sanctities
  • Qur’anic Applications
  • Qur’anic Reading
  • Insult
  • Componential analysis
  • science and religion
  • Blasphemy
  • Civilization-building components
  • Business Patterns
  • Muḥammad Bāqir al-Ṣadr
  • Christian-Muslim relations
  • Emotion detection
  • modality
  • Number Three
  • Shia Jurisprudence
  • Conflict Management Strategies
  • Michel Baudier
  • Methodology of Interpretation
  • Semantic Field of Sin
  • gradual revelation
  • Qur’anic text and language
  • Rashad Khalifa
  • Qur’anic Ethics
  • Cognitive Science
  • Scientific verses
  • Conditionality
  • archaeological researches
  • Human creation
  • Research methods
  • Rafsanjan city
  • darkness
  • Origin of Iron
  • Miracle of Quran
  • English translation of the Qur’an
  • Buṭūn of the Qur’an
  • Political-thematic interpretation of the Qur\'an
  • parable (mathal)
  • Maqāṣid
  • Interdisciplinary study
  • Interdisciplinary dataset
  • Conflict of Interest
  • Polish Tatars
  • Mulla sadra
  • Syntactic non-normativity
  • Neanderthal
  • faith
  • al-Tamhīd fī ʿUlūm al-Qurʾān
  • Rabb
  • sabb al-Nabī
  • Barzakh
  • Ungrammaticality
  • Right to be forgotten
  • Sky
  • manuscripts of the Qurʼan
  • Bangla translation of the Qur’an
  • linguistic demarcation
  • myth
  • Fluency
  • Surah al-Muzzammil
  • Qur’anic cosmology
  • Basic level concepts
  • Verse 44 of Surah al-Isrāʾ
  • cultural study
  • Wilāyah
  • Qur’anic Digital Businesses (QDB)
  • Jasser Auda
  • interpretive levels
  • Scientific exegesis
  • The Qur’an and Archaeology
  • Naskh
  • Asbāb al-Nuzūl
  • Collocation
  • Iftirā’
  • Conceptual Features of Gardens
  • Instrument Validation
  • al-tafsīr al-mawḍūʿī
  • Critical participation
  • light
  • Traditional Persian Medicine (TPM)
  • Corpus-based study
  • Munāsabah
  • Semiotic-semantic analysis
  • Creative Thinking
  • heart
  • Surah al-Ḥadīd
  • Philosophy of language
  • Achaemenid Metallurgy
  • alcoholic beverages
  • Comprehension of the Qur’an
  • Norman Fairclough
  • Prophet Muhammad
  • Michael Riffaterre
  • Human life protection
  • Qur’anic Inclination
  • Strong AI
  • Munkar
  • Verse of Tablīgh
  • the consciousness of beings
  • Gender relations in the Qur’an
  • Semantic Components
  • image
  • Anti-Islamic literature
  • Moral education
  • Surah al-Nisāʾ
  • Discourse Analysis
  • culture of revelation time
  • Tf-idf
  • Orientalist studies
  • Photosynthesis
  • Qur’anic women
  • miracles of the Qur’an
  • Solar system
  • Contextual approach
  • Deep neural network
  • Association Rule Analysis
  • Interpretive Methodology
  • custom
  • Rūḥ al-maʿnā theory
  • role model method
  • Atmospheric Sciences
  • Persian Gardens
  • faith-based lifestyle
  • Illocutionary force
  • Qur’anic Arabic
  • Collisional Orogens
  • Meccan and Medinan Verses
  • Wizr
  • causes of revelation
  • Fajr
  • banān
  • Speech act theory
  • structural forms
  • Adaptation
  • rasm al-Qurʼan
  • Occasions of revelation
  • Qur’anic–psychological studies
  • Decision-Tree analysis
  • model of assessment
  • Qur’anic narratives
  • Shock Waves
  • Historical Exegesis
  • Protein
  • scientific language
  • Morphology
  • Interdisciplinary Qur’anic Studies
  • Jurisprudence
  • Qur’an Farsi Translations
  • Creation (khalq)
  • sharḥ al-ṣadr Situational stress
  • harassment
  • The verse 45 of Surah al-Kahf
  • conceptual metaphor
  • Illegitimate political regime
  • omitting alif
  • Othering
  • functional types
  • Surahs\' Structuredness
  • modernist Muslims
  • Maʿnā and maghzā
  • al-ifsād fī al-arḍ
  • Similarity of motion
  • Searle’s speech act theory
  • emotion regulation
  • Alteration of Creation
  • al-ʿafw
  • Co-occurrence
  • Quantitative studies of the Qur’an