Aims

The Journal of Quranic Media Studies (JQMS) is a peer-reviewed academic journal dedicated to publishing original, high-quality research on the dynamic interplay between the Qur’an and media. The journal provides a platform for scholarship that makes significant theoretical, methodological, or empirical contributions to Qur’anic studies, media and communication studies, and related interdisciplinary fields.

JQMS promotes innovative and critical approaches to understanding how media technologies reshape the interpretation, circulation, representation, and authority of Qur’anic texts in contemporary global contexts. It approaches media as part of the social, cultural, technological, and institutional conditions through which people encounter, interpret, communicate, and engage with the Qur’an.

The journal welcomes contributions from scholars worldwide and encourages dialogue across disciplines, research traditions, and geographical settings. It publishes original research articles based on library research, empirical investigation, or combinations of textual, interpretive, and social research methods. Manuscripts must present a clear scholarly argument and explain their contribution to the study of the Qur’an and media.

Scope

The journal’s scope includes, but is not limited to, the following interconnected areas:

• Qur’anic studies in digital contexts: research on interpretation, reception, teaching, learning, and engagement with the Qur’an in digitally mediated settings, including the implications of digital formats for scholarly and everyday interpretive practices.
• Media, communication, and the Qur’an: analysis of how Qur’anic texts, interpretations, and practices are communicated through print, broadcast, audiovisual, and digital media, and how their meanings are shaped by communication practices and audiences.
• Digital Qur’an and online religious authority: investigation of digital Qur’anic resources, applications, websites, and platforms, including how scholarly authority, credibility, expertise, and religious influence are established, circulated, and contested online.
• Representation and mediation of Qur’anic texts: examination of visual, aural, textual, and multimodal representations of the Qur’an, including the roles of translation, recitation, design, performance, and media formats in shaping interpretation and reception.

Within these areas, submissions may examine the relationships among texts, interpreters, media institutions, technologies, platforms, and audiences. Comparative and interdisciplinary studies are welcome when they retain a substantive focus on the Qur’an and demonstrate a clear connection to the journal’s aims.

Scholarly Contribution and Submission Relevance

Manuscripts should identify a research problem, engage critically with relevant scholarship, explain the research approach, and present findings supported by appropriate evidence. Descriptions of digital tools, media content, or religious practices should develop an analytical contribution rather than simply report the existence or popularity of a phenomenon.

Submissions must fall within the journal’s aims and scope and demonstrate clear theoretical, methodological, or empirical value. Work on Qur’anic studies without a substantive media dimension, or work on media without meaningful engagement with the Qur’an, does not ordinarily meet the journal’s central focus.

Authors should consult the Author Guidelines and the Journal Template before submitting through the journal’s OJS submission system.