Retraction Policy

Articles published in Dialogues in Qur’anic and Hadith Studies may be considered for retraction if there is clear evidence that the findings are unreliable, either as a result of misconduct, such as data fabrication, data falsification, citation manipulation, plagiarism, or fake peer review, or due to honest error, including miscalculation, inaccurate source interpretation, methodological mistakes, or serious analytical errors. Retraction may also occur if the article has been previously published elsewhere without proper acknowledgment, permission, or justification, constituting redundant or duplicate publication.

In addition, any form of plagiarism, self-plagiarism, unethical authorship, undisclosed conflict of interest, unauthorized use of copyrighted materials, or unethical research practice may result in retraction. This includes serious misrepresentation of Qur’anic texts, Hadith sources, manuscripts, translations, field data, digital corpora, or other scholarly materials that affects the validity and integrity of the article.

The purpose of retraction is not to punish authors but to correct the scholarly record and prevent the continued circulation of unreliable or unethical work. The retraction process will be conducted in accordance with the guidelines established by the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE), which can be accessed at: https://publicationethics.org/files/retraction%20guidelines.pdf.