Scope

Al Basirah is an interdisciplinary biannual journal focuses on religious studies that seek to publish arbitrated articles dealing with various aspects of life. It covers various branches of knowledge such as Uloom-ul-Quran, Uloom-ul-Hadith, Usool-e-Fiqh, Comparative Religions, Ilm-ul-Kalam, Sufiism, Philosophy, History, Culture and Civilization, Law, Politics, Economics, Anthropology, Education, Human rights, contemporary issues in Islamic perspective as well as Arabic language and Literature etc.

Similarly, Commentary on Islamic books and biography of Muslim Personalities are also published in it. The Journal accepts articles in three Languages (Urdu, Arabic and English). It seeks to establish a scholarly relationship between academic and intellectual communities of the world in the field of Religious Studies.

Al Basirah is print and online research journal published by Department of Islamic Studies, NUML with assistance of HEC. The journal provides a platform to post graduate students, scholars, professors to publish their valuable research on current issues. International perspective is also reflected by the Journal’s trilingual approach as it welcomes research papers in Urdu, English and Arabic.

History

Dr. Syed Abdul Ghaffar Bukhari is the founding Editor of Al Basirah, started working on the Journal in 2010, in collaboration with the NUML .In the beginning, he worked hard for the publication of Al Basirah from NUML. He faced a lot of problems regarding the funding and publication. Because of his great personal efforts, HEC recognized Al Basirah in “X” category in January, 2018 in the editorship of Dr. Syed Abdul Ghaffar Bukhari.

Most importantly, it is the honor for this research journal (Al Basirah) that it has gained (1st Prize) in National Seerat Conference held by the Ministry of Religious Affairs regarding research journals’ categorization, Islamabad.