Chronicles of Qur’anic Studies is an international, interdisciplinary, peer-reviewed journal dedicated to advancing scholarly understanding of the Qur’an and the ways in which Qur’anic meanings are interpreted, authorized, transmitted, institutionalized, practiced, negotiated, contested, and transformed across historical and contemporary contexts.

The journal seeks to bridge Qur’anic Studies and the wider social sciences and humanities. Rather than treating the Qur’an exclusively as a textual object or merely as a general religious background, the journal encourages research that examines the dynamic relationships among Qur’anic texts, interpretive traditions, social actors, institutions, technologies, public discourse, and lived practices.

A central aim of the journal is to develop scholarship that combines rigorous engagement with the Qur’an and its interpretive traditions with theoretically informed, historically grounded, or empirically supported analysis. In doing so, Chronicles of Qur’anic Studies provides an academic forum for examining how Qur’anic ideas acquire authority, circulate through societies, shape institutions and practices, and interact with changing social, political, economic, cultural, and technological environments.

The journal particularly encourages comparative and globally engaged scholarship and welcomes perspectives emerging from Muslim societies and the Global South as sources of theoretical and conceptual contribution to international scholarship.

Scope

Chronicles of Qur’anic Studies publishes original and methodologically rigorous scholarship in areas including, but not limited to:

• Qur’anic interpretation, tafsīr, hermeneutics, and interpretive traditions;

• the history, transmission, reception, and social authority of Qur’anic interpretation;

• Qur’anic ethics and their application in contemporary societies;

• Qur’an, religion, and social change;

• Qur’an, law, governance, citizenship, and public policy;

• Qur’anic perspectives on politics, authority, conflict, peace, and social justice;

• Qur’an, education, pedagogy, curriculum, and knowledge formation;

• Qur’an, economics, Islamic finance, zakat, waqf, philanthropy, and social welfare;

• Qur’an, gender, family, and changing social relations;

• Qur’an, culture, identity, community, and lived religion;

• Qur’an, media, communication, popular culture, and public discourse;

• digital Qur’anic cultures, artificial intelligence, algorithms, and emerging technologies;

• Qur’an, environment, sustainability, and ecological ethics;

• institutions and organizations involved in producing, transmitting, regulating, or applying Qur’anic knowledge;

• comparative studies of Qur’anic interpretation across societies, institutions, intellectual traditions, or historical periods; and

• theoretical and methodological developments relevant to the study of the Qur’an in its social and institutional contexts.

The journal welcomes interdisciplinary contributions drawing on Qur’anic Studies, Islamic Studies, Religious Studies, sociology, anthropology, history, political science, law, education, economics, communication and media studies, digital humanities, organizational studies, cultural studies, and related disciplines.

Appropriate methodological approaches include textual and hermeneutical analysis, historical research, archival research, ethnography, qualitative and quantitative social research, comparative research, discourse analysis, institutional analysis, digital research, mixed-methods research, and other established approaches appropriate to the research question.

Scope Requirement

To fall within the journal’s scope, a manuscript must demonstrate a substantive and analytically significant engagement with the Qur’an, Qur’anic interpretation, Qur’anic concepts, or the social and institutional consequences of Qur’anic meanings.

Manuscripts in which the Qur’an is mentioned only as general religious background, used merely to provide normative quotations, or added without a clear analytical relationship to the research problem are normally considered outside the journal’s scope.

Similarly, manuscripts dealing broadly with Islam, Muslim societies, Islamic education, Islamic law, politics, economics, or culture must establish a clear and substantial connection to Qur’anic sources, interpretation, reception, authority, or practice.

Types of Contributions

The journal primarily considers:

• original research articles;

• theoretically informed conceptual articles;

• comparative and historical studies; and

• critical review or synthesis articles that make a substantial contribution to Qur’anic Studies.

All submissions must present a clear scholarly problem, engage relevant international literature, employ an appropriate and transparent methodology, and demonstrate an original contribution to knowledge.

Readership

The journal is intended for scholars, researchers, academics, postgraduate students, and professionals working in Qur’anic Studies, Islamic Studies, Religious Studies, and related fields in the social sciences and humanities.