Aims and Scope

el-Noorda: Interdisciplinary Journal of Qur’an and Hadith provides a scholarly forum for research that advances understanding of the Qur’an and Hadith through rigorous textual inquiry and interdisciplinary engagement. The journal encourages contributions that connect Islamic intellectual traditions with contemporary questions while maintaining methodological clarity and careful attention to primary sources.

Aims

• Advance critical scholarship on the interpretation, transmission, and reception of the Qur’an and Hadith.
• Encourage dialogue between classical Islamic scholarship and contemporary academic approaches.
• Develop theoretically informed and methodologically transparent research across disciplinary boundaries.
• Explore how Qur’anic and Hadith interpretations inform religious understanding and social practice in diverse contexts.

Scope

The journal welcomes research in the following areas:

• Qur’anic studies: tafsir traditions, Qur’anic sciences, interpretive methods, and the history of interpretation.
• Hadith studies: transmission, compilation, authentication, commentary, and contemporary debates on authority.
• Hermeneutics and methodology: linguistic, historical, literary, philosophical, and comparative approaches.
• Law and governance: interpretations of scriptural sources in legal reasoning, public life, and institutional practice.
• Ethics and society: gender, social justice, environmental responsibility, and other contemporary ethical questions.
• Reception and lived religion: the interpretation and practice of Qur’anic and Hadith traditions within communities.
• Digital humanities: digital resources and computational methods applied to Qur’anic and Hadith research.
• Comparative scholarship: studies across interpretive schools, intellectual traditions, and cultural contexts.