Aim & Scope
darulfunun ilahiyat aims to publish articles dealing with different aspects of religion in independent and interdisciplinary fields and theoretical and applied sciences.
darulfunun ilahiyat focuses on religion, faith and behaviors of its practitioners and religion as system of belief and society. The journal expects the articles to (i) Address human and social sciences; (ii) Develop original theoretical and conceptual advances; (iii) Examine different and new research methods; (iv) Present comparative studies using case studies.
Within this range, the issues listed below are given particular priority:
- Islamic culture and civilization,
- Islamic law, theology, Sufism, hadith, tafsir, Arabic language and literature
- History of religions; philosophy of religion, sociology of religion, psychology of religion and religious education
- Islamic history, Islamic arts and history, Turkish-Islamic literature
- Islamic philosophy, history of philosophy
- Interpretation and teaching of religious knowledge in the contemporary world
- Religious identity, belief groups, religion in a multicultural environment
- Interaction between the individual, religion and society
- Islamic law, theology, Sufism, hadith, tafsir, Arabic language and literature
- History of religions; philosophy of religion, sociology of religion, psychology of religion and religious education
- Islamic history, Islamic arts and history, Turkish-Islamic literature
- Islamic philosophy, history of philosophy
- Interpretation and teaching of religious knowledge in the contemporary world
- Religious identity, belief groups, religion in a multicultural environment
- Interaction between the individual, religion and society
In addition to qualified, original, theoretical, and applied research, darulfunun ilahiyat also publishes book reviews, research notes, meeting abstracts and translatory-commentarial papers from classical languages.