About the magazine

The IIIT Students' Magazine is a student-led publication that provides a platform for students and emerging scholars to explore contemporary issues through Islamic intellectual perspectives.

Its aims

• Encouraging critical and reflective thinking.
• Connecting Islamic thought, values, and intellectual traditions with contemporary challenges.
• Helping students and emerging scholars develop and showcase academic and analytical writing.
• Promoting constructive intellectual dialogue across disciplines.
• Making scholarly ideas accessible to a wider student and educated readership.
• Encouraging meaningful contributions to discussions concerning the Ummah and contemporary society.

Articles should be thoughtful, well-referenced, and accessible rather than highly technical academic research papers.

Submission topics

Choose the category your article belongs to. Interdisciplinary submissions are welcome under the final category.

1. 1

   Islamic Leadership & Governance

   Leadership, ethics, accountability, governance, institutional development, and public responsibility.

2. 2

   Geopolitics & the Muslim World

   Global affairs, international relations, contemporary developments, cooperation, and issues affecting Muslim societies.

3. 3

   Business & Development

   Entrepreneurship, Islamic business ethics, innovation, sustainability, and responsible economic development.

4. 4

   Education & Islamic Epistemology

   Education, pedagogy, knowledge, Islamic epistemology, integration of knowledge, and educational reform.

5. 5

   Muslim Socioeconomic Development

   Poverty, inequality, social welfare, community development, Islamic social finance, and socioeconomic challenges.

6. 6

   Civilisational Thought & Revival

   Islamic civilisation, intellectual renewal, reform, identity, culture, and the contemporary relevance of Islamic intellectual traditions.

7. 7

   Interdisciplinary

   Articles connecting Islamic thought with artificial intelligence, technology, psychology, environment, media, youth, family, finance, ethics, and other emerging issues.

Submission guidelines

• Word count: 1,000–2,000 words.
• File format: Microsoft Word DOC or DOCX.
• Articles must be original and previously unpublished.
• Articles should include a clear title, introduction, main discussion, and conclusion.
• Writing must be clear and accessible to readers from different academic backgrounds.
• Important arguments and factual claims must use reliable sources.
• Qur'anic verses, hadith, classical Islamic works, academic literature, and other sources must be properly referenced where applicable.
• Use a consistent citation and referencing style.
• Authors are responsible for the accuracy of quotations, references, names, dates, and factual information.
• Images, tables, and figures may be included when the author has the right or permission to use them.
• AI-assisted tools must not replace the author's own analysis, intellectual contribution, or responsibility.