BEÜ İlahiyat Fakültesi Dergisi

BEÜİFD is a refereed journal published twice a year, in June and December, by Zonguldak Bülent Ecevit University Faculty of Theology. BEUİFD aims to contribute to the fields of theology, religious sciences and social sciences by publishing original studies with scientific qualifications at national and international levels. The target audience of our journal is academic researchers from these fields and general readers who are interested in these fields at the university level.

Although the publication language of our journal is Turkish, scientific studies written in Arabic and English are also accepted for evaluation. The articles submitted to the journal are scanned for plagiarism with the iThenticate programme and evaluated by double-blind refereeing.
Our journal offers free and easily accessible resources to many researchers with a wide range of publications in the field of theology and social sciences in terms of its subject area, while at the same time allowing the publication of the works of many researchers.
Many sub-branches of the basic fields of Theology and Religious Sciences are included in the scope of our journal. In general, we accept studies from the following fields for evaluation and publish those that complete the process: Basic Islamic Sciences: Holy Quran, Hadith, Tafsir, Islamic Law, Theology, History of Islamic Sects, Sufism and Arabic Language and Literature; Philosophy and Religious Sciences: Islamic Philosophy, Philosophy of Religion, Logic, Psychology of Religion, Sociology of Religion, Religious Education and History of Religions; Islamic History and Arts: History of Islam, History of Islamic Arts, Turkish-Islamic Literature and Religious Music.
The copyrights of the works published in our journal belong to their authors. Authors who have submitted works to the journal are deemed to have given permission for BEÜİFD to publish their works under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0) licence and to have accepted the provisions of this licence.

All expenses of BEÜİFD are covered by the publisher. No fee is charged for any stage or process in the article submisson, evaluation and publication process.

1) Bülent Ecevit University Journal of Faculty of Theology publishes academic studies in the fields of Social Sciences and Humanities, with priority given to Basic Islamic Sciences, Philosophy and Religious Sciences, Islamic History and Arts, Religious Culture and Moral Knowledge Education.

2) The journal only accepts manuscripts in Turkish, Arabic and English. The journal is published in two issues per year, June and December, both in print and electronic, and the article acceptance dates are 15 January-15 April for the June issue and 15 July-15 October for the December issue. If the number of articles reaches a sufficient level, the article acceptance process can be closed before these dates.

3) Submitted manuscripts must be appropriate to the purpose and scope of the journal.

4) Original, unpublished manuscripts that are not in the evaluation process in another journal and whose content and submission have been approved by each author are accepted for evaluation.

5) Manuscripts should be prepared in accordance with the journal's spelling rules. The article template of our journal can be used.

6) The Copyright Agreement Form must be signed with a blue-coloured pen and uploaded to the system as PDF. The form can be filled out in separate copies by authors from different institutions. However, all signatures must be in blue-coloured pen and must be merged and uploaded to the system as a single PDF. Authors own the copyright of their works published in the journal and their works are published under CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 licence.

7) Master's and doctoral students can submit their manuscripts to the journal together with their supervisors (the first author is the student - the second author is the supervising faculty member).

8) Authors are required to fill in the ethical declaration form and upload it to the system as a WORD file. For studies contributed by more than one author, the ethical declaration form should also be filled in and uploaded to the system as a WORD file when submitting the article.

9) Only one article by the same author in the same publication period can be processed and published if it passes at least two acceptance decisions of the referees.

10) The manuscripts should be prepared in accordance with the journal's spelling rules.

11) Manuscripts should be submitted electronically to the journal website via the "Submit Manuscript" tab.

12) The manuscript should be written in Microsoft Word using the BEÜİFD Manuscript Template or in Gentium Plus font with a font size of 10.5 for text and 8.5 for footnotes.

13) Articles that do not use the ISNAD Citation System are returned to the author for correction. Articles exceeding the 10,000-word limit will be returned to the author to reduce the word count. Submitted articles should include a 250-300 word Turkish abstract and at least 5 keywords and a 750-1000 word extended abstract and at least 5 English keywords.

14) All expenses of the journal are covered by the Publisher. The publication of articles in the journal and the execution of article processes are not subject to a fee. No processing fee or submission fee is charged for articles submitted to the journal or accepted for publication.

15) After the manuscript is submitted to the Journal for publication, none of the authors' names may be deleted from the list of authors without the written permission of all authors, and a new name may not be added as an author and the order of authors may not be changed.

16) Publication of Studies Based on Surveys and Interviews: BEÜİFD adopts the "Code of Conduct and Best Practice Guidelines for Journal Editors" and "Code of Conduct for Journal Publishers" of the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE) to provide ethical assurance in scientific periodical publishing. In this context, the following points should be complied with in the studies submitted to the journal:
a) For research in all disciplines that require ethics committee approval (ethics committee approval must be obtained, and this approval must be stated and documented in the article.
b) For studies requiring ethics committee approval, information about the approval (name of the committee, date and number) should be included in the method section, as well as on one of the first/last pages of the article; for case reports, information on the signature of the informed consent form should be included in the article.

The publication processes applied in the Journal of BEU Faculty of Theology constitute the basis for the development and distribution of knowledge in an impartial and reputable manner. The processes applied in this direction are directly reflected in the quality of the work of the authors and the institutions supporting the authors. Peer-reviewed studies are studies that embody and support the scientific method. At this point, it is important that all stakeholders of the process (authors, readers and researchers, publishers, referees and editors) comply with the standards for ethical principles. Within the scope of BEÜİFD publication ethics, all stakeholders are expected to carry the following ethical responsibilities.

The following ethical duties and responsibilities have been prepared in open access, taking into account the guidelines and policies published by the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE).

See also, Higher Education Institutions Scientific Research and Publication Ethics Directive and 4th Turkey Editors' Workshop Decisions (25-27 December 2021).

The publication of an article in a peer-reviewed journal is a necessary building block in the development of a harmonised and respected knowledge network. It is a direct reflection of the quality of the work of the authors and their supporting institutes. Peer-reviewed articles support and shape the scientific method. It is therefore important for all parties involved in publishing, authors, journal editors, referees and publishing organisations, to agree on standards of expected ethical behaviour.

Duties of the Publisher
• Academic studies submitted for publication are evaluated according to purely academic and scientific criteria, and the authors' gender, religion, race, ethnic origin, citizenship, political views, and institutional relations are not used as criteria in any way.
• The editor and editorial team do not provide any information about the submitted manuscripts to anyone other than the author, referees, potential referees and editorial members.
• The contents of the manuscripts submitted to BÜİFD but not published cannot be used by the editor and editorial team members without the consent of the authors.
• The editor and editorial team have full responsibility and authority to accept or reject a manuscript.
• The editor and editorial team should not be in a conflict of interest regarding the accepted or rejected studies, and only studies that will contribute to the field should be accepted.
• When errors are found in the submitted manuscripts, they should support the publication or withdrawal of the correction, keep the names of the referees confidential and prevent plagiarism.

Duties of the Referee(s)
• Referees' opinions make a great contribution to the decision of the Editorial Board (editorial team) of BÜİFD whether the submitted work will be published or not. Reviewers' revision requests are communicated to the authors and help to improve the academic quality of the manuscript. However, the Editorial Board of BÜİFD retains the decision on whether a study will be published or not. Any revision that the Editorial Board does not deem sufficient according to BÜİFD publication criteria may be grounds for rejection of the manuscript.
• Referees are given 15 days for the evaluation process, but referees who request additional time may be given additional time according to the publication plan of the journal.
• Referees who think that they are not qualified to evaluate the manuscript submitted to them for evaluation, or who think that they cannot complete the evaluation within the allotted time, should notify the editor of BÜİFD immediately.
• The manuscripts submitted to the referees for evaluation should be regarded as a confidential trust and should not be shared with others without the permission and consent of the BÜİFD Editorial Board.
• The contents of unpublished manuscripts should not be used in the referees' own work without the author's permission
• Referee evaluations should be objective and constructive, based on the academic competence of the manuscript. They should not criticise the personalities of the authors.
• Reviewers should provide explanations and arguments to support their evaluations. In this context, the manuscripts should be analysed in terms of academic-scientific competence, consistency, use of terminology, language and style, and title-subject coherence.
• BÜİFD does not evaluate referee reports that do not form an opinion, personalised evaluations, and unjustified approvals and rejections and re-review such manuscripts.
• Referees should identify the works that are not quoted by the authors in the works they evaluate. In this context, they should draw the editor's attention to any similarities or overlaps between the work under review and a previously published work.
• Privileged information and ideas obtained through peer review should be kept confidential and should not be used for personal gain.
• Reviews should be impartial. Reviewers should not have any conflict of interest with the research, the authors, and/or research funders.

Duties of the Authors
• Authors should provide accurate information about the work submitted to the journal and provide an objective discussion of the significance of the work.
• Authors should accurately convey the raw material they have used, provide sufficient explicit details for other researchers, and provide citations. Deliberately providing false information is a breach of scientific ethics.
• Authors should ensure that their work is entirely original, but if they have drawn on other work, they should cite that work in the most appropriate way.
• By submitting a manuscript to a journal for publication, the author also declares that the manuscript is original. Any form of plagiarism is a very serious offence. Studies that are found to contain plagiarism are not evaluated in the journal, and when it is detected after publication, the necessary places are informed.
• An author should not publish a study containing the same research in more than one place. It is unacceptable behaviour to re-publish a study with the same essence or to submit the same study to more than one journal simultaneously with a request for publication.
• Acknowledgement and acknowledgement of all works used in a study is mandatory. Authors must cite each publication cited in the submitted manuscript.
• Authorship is limited to those who have made a substantial contribution to the conception, design, execution, or interpretation of a work. Other contributors must be listed as co-authors. Those who participated in some aspect of the formation of the work should be referred to as 'contributors'. In addition, the author submitting the manuscript to the journal for publication should obtain the consent of the other contributors.
• All authors should disclose in their research manuscripts any financial or other conflicts of interest that they believe may affect the conclusions or interpretation of the manuscript. All sources of financial support received for the study should be clearly indicated.
• The author who detects a serious error or inaccuracy in a published work is obliged to notify the editor and the Editorial Board immediately. In this case, the author is responsible for cooperating with BÜİFD in either withdrawing the manuscript or publishing a correction.
• In multi-authored studies, all authors should contribute significantly to the research. A statement that all data in the study are true and authentic is required. All authors must ensure retraction and correction of errors.
• Publication of the same research in more than one journal should not be attempted and should comply with the ethics of scientific research and publication.
• Actions against scientific research and publication ethics are as follows:

 a) Plagiarism: Presenting the ideas, methods, data, applications, writings, forms or works of others as one's own work in whole or in part without citing the authors in accordance with scientific rules,
b) Forgery: Producing data that is not based on research, editing or modifying the submitted or published work based on unreal data, reporting or publishing them, presenting research that has not been conducted as if it has been conducted,
c) Distortion: Falsifying research records and data obtained, showing methods, devices and materials that were not used in the research as if they were used, not evaluating data that are not in accordance with the research hypothesis, manipulating data and/or results to fit the relevant theory or assumptions, falsifying or shaping the results of the research in line with the interests of the persons and organisations receiving support,
d) Re-publication: Presenting more than one work containing the same results of research as separate works in associate professorship exam evaluations and academic promotions,
e) Slicing: Presenting the results of research as separate works in associate professorship exam evaluations and academic promotions by inappropriately dividing the results of research into parts in a way that disrupts the integrity of the research and by making many publications without citing each other,
f) Unfair authorship: Including people who have not made active contributions among the authors, not including people who have made active contributions among the authors, changing the order of authors in an unjustified and inappropriate manner, removing the names of active contributors from the work during publication or in subsequent editions, using his/her influence to have his/her name included among the authors even though he/she has not made active contributions,
g) Other types of ethical violations: Failure to clearly indicate the persons, institutions or organisations providing support and their contributions to the research in the publications of research conducted with support; failure to comply with ethical rules in research on humans and animals; failure to respect patient rights in publications; sharing the information contained in a work assigned to review as a referee with others before publication; misuse of resources, places, facilities and devices provided or allocated for scientific research; making completely groundless, unwarranted and deliberate accusations of ethical violations (YÖK Scientific Research and Publication Ethics Directive, Article 8).

BEÜJournal of Faculty of Theology does not charge any article submission, processing and publishing and printing charges from the authors