Kahramanmaraş Sütçü İmam Üniversitesi İlahiyat Fakültesi Dergisi

The Journal of Theology Faculty of Kahramanmaraş Sütçü İmam University is an academic journal published by the Kahramanmaraş Sütçü İmam University twice a year in June and in December. Our journal is intended on the one hand, to contribute to the scientific knowledge particularly in the field of theology and social sciences and on the other hand, to make this knowledge accessible to the public through the publication of scientific studies. The deadline for the acceptance of articles are as follows: the 01st March for the edition of 30th June and the 01th September for the edition of 31st December.

Our journal publishes works such as research articles, reviews, translations, simplifications, book reviews, symposiums, seminars, conferences, panels, etc. in the fields of theology and social sciences and humanities.
The publication language of our journal are Turkish and Arabic languages. As for its scope, it generally includes the following areas: the Basic Islamic Studies like the Koran, the hadith, tafsir, the Islamic law, the Islamic theology (kalam), the history of the Islamic sects, the Sufism as well as the Arabic language and literature; the philosophy and religious studies like the Islamic philosophy, the philosophy of religion, the history of philosophy, the logic, the religious psychology, the religious sociology, the religious education and the history of religion; the Islamic history and art like the history of Islam, the history of Islamic art, the Turkish-Islamic literature and the religious music; finally the Religious culture and moral education. In addition to the main research areas, our journal also includes Ottoman and Middle Eastern studies.

1. The Journal of Theology Faculty of Kahramanmaraş Sütçü İmam University is a refereed journal, that publishes articles about theology and social sciences twice a year in June and in December.
2. The Journal publishes writings in Turkish and Arabic.
3. The responsibility for the articles published in the journal belongs to their authors and the published articles may not be partially or fully printed, reproduced and transferred to electronic media without the permission of the publisher.
4. The works must not have been previously published in another journal or sent for publication. Works published in full text are not processed in our journal. Works published as summaries are treated with a letter that makes clear obligation not to be published in full text.
5. Writings whose publication is requested should be sent to our journal via the DergiPark system. Despite the submission guidelines, those who have problems can write to the following e-mail address of our journal: “ilahiyatdergi@ksu.edu.tr”.
6. The articles should contain a maximum of 150 words in Turkish and English. Then a summary between 450 and 750 words, which are more detailed than the abstract, should be placed after the bibliography. When writing abstracts and summaries, the terms of the subject should be written taking into account the third edition of Brill’s Encyclopaedia of Islam.
7. The bibliography should be added at the end of the articles. In the articles written in Arabic, the bibliography should also be written in Latin letters.
8. The format to be followed in the submitted articles:
a. The A4 size margins should be 4.75 cm at the top and bottom, 4 cm on the right and left.
b. The body should be formatted in 11 fonts and 1.3 spaces, the footnote in 9 fonts and 1 space in Bookman Old Stlyle.
c. From the 31st edition, the Isnad Footnote Reference System, available in the field of theology, is used in the footnotes.
Footnote example: ♦ when first written ● when written later
Book: ♦ Talip Özdeş, Maturidi’nin Tefsir Anlayışı, Baskı (İstanbul: İnsan Yayınları, 2003), 15.
● Özdeş, Maturidi’nin Tefsir Anlayışı, 141-143.

Article: ♦Adem Çiftci, “İslam Ceza Hukukunda Suça Teşebbüsten Vazgeçme”, Cumhuriyet Üniversitesi İlahiyat Fakültesi Dergisi 19/1 (Haziran 2015): 23.
● Çiftci, “Suça Teşebbüsten Vazgeçme”, 23.

Encyclopedia: ♦ Ömer Faruk Akün, “Âlî Mustafa Efendi”, Türkiye Diyanet Vakfı İslâm Ansiklopedisi (Ankara: TDV Yayınları, 1989), 2: 416.
● Akün, “Âlî Mustafa Efendi”, 2: 416.

Thesis: ♦ Abdullah Demir, Ebû İshâk Zâhid es-Saffâr’ın Kelâm Yöntemi (Doktora Tezi, Cumhuriyet Üniversitesi, 2014), 122.
● Demir, Zâhid es-Saffâr’ın Kelâm Yöntemi, 22.


Bibliography example:
♦Akün, Ömer Faruk. “Âlî Mustafa Efendi”. Türkiye Diyanet Vakfı İslâm Ansiklopedisi. 2: 416-417. Ankara: TDV Yayınları, 1989.
♦Çiftci, Adem. “İslam Ceza Hukukunda Suça Teşebbüsten Vazgeçme”. Cumhuriyet Üniversitesi İlahiyat Fakültesi Dergisi 19/1 (Haziran 2015): 23-46.
♦Demir, Abdullah. Ebû İshâk Zâhid es-Saffâr’ın Kelâm Yöntemi. Doktora Tezi, Cumhuriyet Üniversitesi, 2014.
♦Özdeş, Talip. Maturidi’nin Tefsir Anlayışı. 2. Baskı. İstanbul: İnsan Yayınları, 2003.

For more detailed information about abbreviations, tables and figures, rules of quote from translated and manuscripts, etc., the following web page can be consulted: http://www.isnadsistemi.org/
9. The articles are sent to three referees who are experts in their field. The publication of the article requires at least the agreements of two referees.
10. The editorial board of the journal makes the final decision about the publication of the articles.
11. Articles should not exceed 35 pages.

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