Open Access Policy

Z-Islamica: Journal of Islamic Studies

Z-Islamica provides immediate open access to its content on the principle that making research freely available to the public supports a greater global exchange of knowledge, especially in the field of Islamic studies and Islamic economics.

This journal is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License (CC BY-SA 4.0).
Under this license:

  • Readers are free to read, download, copy, distribute, print, search, or link to the full texts of articles.

  • Authors retain copyright and grant the journal the right of first publication.

  • Others may reuse the material with proper attribution, and any modified work must be distributed under the same license.

No embargo is applied: articles are accessible immediately upon publication, without subscription or payment.

This policy is in line with the Budapest Open Access Initiative (BOAI) and supports open science practices by ensuring transparency, accessibility, and collaboration.