Aims and Scope

Jurnal Qiraat is devoted to disseminate high quality refereed articles in the field of al-Quran and al-Qiraat. It is a biannually published journal and will also be available online for free.

We would like to invite all the researchers, academicians, teachers and lecturers to contribute to this journal.

The scopes of the journal are:

Ilm al-Qiraat (Science of Recitations)

  • Qiraat Sab‘ah (Seven Recitations), ‘Asharah (Ten Recitations)
  • Comparative analysis of narrations (riwayat) and transmission paths (Turuq)
  • Analysis of the chains of transmission (sanad) and narrators (perawi) of qiraat

Tajwid and Tarannum (Recitation Rules and Melodic Art)

  • Principles and theories of tajwid (proper pronunciation and articulation)
  • The melodic art of Quranic recitation (tarannum)
  • Analysis of errors in recitation (lahn)

Rasm and Dhabt al-Quran (Orthography and Notation of the Quran)

  • Uthmani script (Rasm Uthmani)
  • Diacritical marks and the system of mushaf notation
  • History of the writing of the Quran

Ulum al-Quran (Sciences of the Quran)

  • Occasions of Revelation (Asbab al-Nuzul)
  • Abrogating and Abrogated Verses (Nasikh and Mansukh)
  • Meccan and Medinan Verses (Makki and Madani)
  • Inimitability of the Quran (I‘jaz al-Quran)

Tafsir al-Quran and Tawjih Qiraat (Exegesis of the Quran)

  • Classical and contemporary tafsir
  • Methodologies of tafsir
  • Thematic tafsir (maudu‘i)

Hadith and Qiraat (Prophetic Traditions and Recitations)

  • Relationship between hadith and qiraat
  • Narrations related to Quranic recitation

Arabic Language of the Quran

  • Grammar (Nahu), morphology (Sarf), and rhetoric (Balaghah)
  • Linguistic analysis of Quranic verses

Al-Quran and al-Qiraat Education

  • Pedagogy of Quranic instruction
  • Curriculum for memorization (tahfiz) and qiraat
  • Methods of memorization (hafazan)

Tahfiz al-Quran (Quranic Memorization)

  • Techniques of memorization (hafazan) and revision (murajaah)
  • Psychology of memorization
  • Management of tahfiz institutions

Manuscripts and History of the Mushaf

  • Study of Quranic manuscripts
  • History of the compilation and codification of the Quran

Qiraat and Technology (ICT Integration)

  • Digital applications for Qiraat learning
  • Voice recognition for Quranic recitation
  • Arabic Quranic text processing
  • Qiraat databases

Audio and Phonetics of Qiraat

  • Phonetic analysis of Quranic recitation
  • Sound variations in qiraat

Qiraat in Contemporary Context

  • Current issues in qiraat studies
  • Standardization of Quranic recitation