Open Access Policy

All research articles published in Al-Asr International Research Journal of Islamic Studies are fully open access and immediately freely available to read, download, and share. Articles are published under the terms of a Creative Commons license which permits use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium provided the original work is properly cited.

The author(s) and the copyright holder(s) grant(s) to all users a free, irrevocable, worldwide, perpetual right of access and a license to copy, use, distribute, transmit, and display the complete version of the work and all supplemental materials, including a copy of the permission as stated above, in a suitable standard electronic format is deposited immediately upon initial publication, at least one online repository that is supported by an academic institution, scholarly society, government agency, or other well-established organization that seeks to enable open access, unrestricted distribution, interoperability, and long-term archiving.

Open access is a property of individual works, not necessarily journals or publishers.

Community standards, rather than copyright law, will continue to provide the mechanism for enforcement of proper attribution and responsible use of the published work, as they do now.

Disclaimer

Al-Asr International Research Journal of Islamic Studies, Lahore-Pakistan, follows the licensing agreements by Creative Common Attribution 4.0 (CC BY 4.0). This indicates that you are free to:

1. Share — copy and redistribute the material in any medium or format for any purpose, even commercially.
2. Adapt — remix, transform, and build upon the material for any purpose, even commercially.