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Copyright, Licensing, and Open Access Policy

Journal of Islamic Studies and Research on Arabic (JISRA) is committed to the principles of immediate, global Open Access. All articles published in JISRA are made permanently available to the public without subscription fees or paywalls, promoting the universal exchange of knowledge and scholarly innovation.

Licensing Terms

All content published in Journal of Islamic Studies and Research on Arabic (JISRA) is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License (CC BY-SA 4.0).

Under this open-access license, users, readers, and institutions are permitted to:

  • Share: Copy, redistribute, and transmit the material in any medium or format.

  • Adapt: Remix, transform, and build upon the material for any purpose, including commercial applications.

Under the following mandatory conditions:

  1. Attribution (BY): Proper credit must be given to the original author(s) and the journal (Journal of Islamic Studies and Research on Arabic - JISRA), providing a direct link to the license and indicating if changes were made.

  2. ShareAlike (SA): If you remix, transform, or build upon the material, you must distribute your contributions under the same CC BY-SA 4.0 license as the original.

Author Rights and Copyright Retention

In alignment with international best practices for progressive scholarly publishing, authors who publish with JISRA agree to the following terms:

  1. Unrestricted Copyright Retention: Authors retain full, unreserved copyright ownership of their articles. Copyright is not transferred to the journal or the publisher at any stage.

  2. Unrestricted Publishing Rights: Authors retain all publishing rights without restriction, granting them complete freedom to republish, translate, or include their work in future monographs, collections, or institutional volumes, provided the original publication in JISRA is cited as the first edition.

  3. Non-Exclusive First Publication License: Authors grant Journal of Islamic Studies and Research on Arabic (JISRA) a non-exclusive right of first publication, as well as the perpetual right to index, archive, preserve, and distribute the article across international academic databases and repositories.

  4. Self-Archiving and Repository Policy (Green Open Access): Authors are encouraged to deposit and share all versions of their manuscript (Preprint, Accepted Version, and Final Publisher PDF) in institutional, national, or thematic repositories (such as ResearchGate, Academia.edu, ORCID, or university digital archives) immediately upon publication without any embargo period.