1. IHYA Journal of International Islamic Studies aims to contribute to accumulation of knowledge in the fields of theology and social sciences by publishing the studies that have the scientific qualifications both in national and international levels.

2. IHYA Journal of International Islamic Studies is a refereed journal which is published twice a year (January– July). Deadline to send articles for the January issue is 15th of November, and for the July issue the deadline is 15th of May. Studies sent after these dates are assessed for the next issue. Whether the articles sent to the journal are going to be published or not is decided in three months at the latest beginning from the deadlines, and then the owner of the study is informed.

3. The publication language of the IHYA Journal of International Islamic Studies is Turkish. Likewise, scientific studies in Arabic and English are published, too. Studies in other languages are decided by the editorial board. Articles have to consist of an abstract in Turkish (at least 120 words), key words (at least five concepts), also of an English title, English abstract (at least 120 words), keywords (at least five concepts). The articles have to include a bibliography that is prepared in the Chicago style.

4. Articles to be published in the journal must be authentic and academic studies that are prepared with the research methods appropriate to their fields. Moreover; translations, book and symposium introductions, critiques and assessments that have the quality of a contribution to the scientific field are accepted, as well. For the publication of translation studies, the receipt of permission from the institution which published the study previously has to be presented. 

5. The studies sent to the journal, should not be previously published in other journals or sent to be published in other journals. The author takes the legal responsibility related to the problems that may rise from this.

6. At most one study of an author (copyright or translation) can be published in an issue.

8. All scientific and legal responsibility of the published study is incumbent on the author(s).

9. If the published study has been produced from a previously presented declaration or from a written dissertation, this must certainly be stated in the study.

10. All publication rights of the articles accepted to be published belongs to IHYA Journal of International Islamic Studies.

11. IHYA Journal of International Islamic Studies Editorial Board has the decision making authority about the cases that are not mentioned here.

12. In accordance with the 6th article of the Universities Publication Guideline, authors have all kind of scientific and legal responsibilities in terms of the language, style and content of their articles.

13. IHYA Journal of International Islamic Studies sets the condition that for the writing of references and bibliography Chicago style be used.

14. The copyrights of the articles that are accepted to be published in IHYA Journal of International Islamic Studies are considered to be transferred to the journal’s editorial board.

15. The articles published in IHYA Journal of International Islamic Studies are scanned via iThenticate plagiarism detection program.

16. For the articles that are decided to be published, ORCID numbers are needed to be taken by the authors. (https://orcid.org)