Tefsiriyat

All manuscripts submitted to the journal undergo a double-blind peer review process. The evaluation procedure is conducted in accordance with the principles of editorial independence and scholarly impartiality, ensuring that the identities of authors and reviewers remain mutually anonymous.

Tefsiriyat adheres to the principles of open access publishing and provides free and unrestricted access to all published content without any technical or financial barriers. No submission, evaluation, or article processing charges (APCs) are required from authors.

The journal conducts its publication processes in compliance with the Press Law, the Law on Intellectual and Artistic Works, and the Directive on Scientific Research and Publication Ethics of Higher Education Institutions in Türkiye. It also adopts the international ethical publishing principles issued by the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE) and the Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ).

Tefsiriyat publishes articles in Turkish, Arabic, and English and is issued biannually, in June and December. The journal aims to contribute to the international academic community by disseminating original studies with strong methodological depth and scholarly significance.

The scope of the journal encompasses studies that, while taking tafsīr as the primary point of reference, examine how disciplines such as exegetical theory, hermeneutics, philology, semantics, linguistics, philosophy, sociology, and cultural studies are articulated with Qur’anic interpretation. Within this framework, the journal also publishes original scholarly works that address the transformations undergone by Qur’anic interpretation within the exegetical tradition across different historical, geographical, and cultural contexts.

Tafsīriyat adopts a dynamic interpretive-field approach that considers both the original and relatively stable dimension of meaning inherent in the text and the processes through which meaning is produced and circulated, and aims to contribute to the deepening of this field through engagement with contemporary academic debates.

Within this framework, the main types of contributions published in the journal include:

Research Articles: Scholarly studies that make original contributions to the fields of tafsīr and Qur’anic studies through innovative arguments and comprehensive analyses.
Book Reviews and Critical Notices: Critical evaluations of works published in the fields of the Qur’an, tafsīr, Qur’anic sciences, and related disciplines.
Symposium and Panel Reports: Analytical reviews that introduce and critically assess topics discussed in national and international academic meetings.
Critical Editions and Textual Studies: Works devoted to the scholarly examination, comparison, and preparation for publication of classical and contemporary texts in accordance with established academic methods.
Academic Biographies and Obituaries: Scholarly studies on influential figures in the field of tafsīr, focusing on their lives, intellectual contributions, and scholarly impact.
Scholarly Translation Articles: Academic translations of original texts that have the potential to contribute to Qur’anic and tafsīr studies, prepared in accordance with scholarly standards.

• Tafsiriyat

• No. 1 (2026)