Aims, Scope & Objectives

Al-Asr International Research Journal of Islamic Studies, Lahore, Pakistan, is an Academic Research Journal devoted to Islamic studies. It serves as a forum for authors, faculty members, and scholars to write objectively, analytically, and wherever necessary, critically on the Qur’an, Sunnah, Sirah, and Islamic Law and Jurisprudence. This research journal has applied for accreditation by the Higher Education Commission of Pakistan. Al-Asr is a peer-reviewed research Journal that has been published Quarterly for research work since 2020. Al-Irfan Research Center (SMC-Private) Limited Lahore, Pakistan.

The primary objective of this Research Journal is to provide a platform for researchers, teachers, and students to share their work and disseminate their findings, thereby promoting research in Arts and Humanities.  This platform offers opportunities for both print and online access to high-quality material, catering to those interested in research related to religious sciences. Its goal is to highlight Islamic concepts to answer the questions and to find solutions to different issues arising in the modern era in the light of the Qur’an and Sunnah. It aims at defining Islam in terms of its fundamentals rationally and liberally emphasizing, at the same time, the basic Islamic ideas of universal brotherhood, tolerance, and social justice.

The goal of this journal is to bring together researchers and practitioners from academia and industry to focus on areas of literary and social studies for a cross-cultural exploration and subsequent innovation of subjects concerned and establishing new collaborations in these areas. Authors are solicited to contribute to this journal by submitting articles for the development of the humanities and social science fields. 
The topics related to this journal include, but are not limited to: 
•Humanities and Social Sciences, such as Anthropology
•Communication Studies
•Corporate Governance
•Criminology, Cross-cultural studies
•Demography, Development studies
•Economics
•Language and Linguistics
•History & Pakistan Studies
•Languague & Literature
•Islamic Art & Archetecture 
•Philosophy
•Religion
•Visual Arts
•Anthropology, Area Studies, Archaeology
•Culture and Ethics Studies
•Economics, Ethics, Geography, History
•Gender and Sexuality Studies, Geography
•Industrial relations, Information Science, International relations
•Law, Linguistics Library and Information Science, Information Management 
•Media Studies, Methodology
•Political Science, Philosophy
•Psychology, Population Studies,
•Religious studies
•Social welfare, Sociology
•Women Studies