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Qur’anic Interpretation Studies

Qur’anic Interpretation Studies is a research topic within Education. Science Explorer counts 9.7k research works in it since 1967. 9.7% of them reached the world's top 10% most cited for their field and year.

This cluster of papers covers a wide range of topics related to Islamic studies and education, including Qur'anic exegesis (Tafsir), Islamic law, gender in Islam, the integration of Islam with modern education, and the influence of Islamic teachings on various aspects of society. It also explores the use of social media in the context of Islamic studies and discusses the concept of moderation in Islam.

  • Tafsir Al-Mishbah
  • Islamic Law
  • Education
  • Qur'anic Exegesis
  • Gender in Islam
  • Social Media
  • Islamic Jurisprudence
  • Cultural Capital
  • Moderation in Islam
  • Spirituality
Research works
9.7k
fractional, since 1967
In the world top 10%
938
per year above
Top-10% rate
9.7%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
+93%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
Indonesia
76% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Qur’anic Interpretation Studies

Which countries lead Qur’anic Interpretation Studies research?

By volume, Indonesia and Malaysia publish the most (3.8k and 312 works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Indonesia 3.8k works
  2. 2 Malaysia 312 works
  3. 3 ?? 269 works
  4. 4 Pakistan 156 works
  5. 5 Iraq 143 works
  6. 6 United States 93 works
  7. 7 Iran 68 works
  8. 8 Saudi Arabia 50 works
  9. 9 Türkiye 48 works
  10. 10 Bangladesh 36 works

How concentrated that is

The same countries as shares of everything the list above accounts for. A node where two countries do two thirds of the work and one spread evenly across twelve read alike as a ranking and not at all alike here.

Indonesia: 76.5%Malaysia: 6.2%??: 5.4%Pakistan: 3.1%6 others listed: 8.8%76%largest
Indonesia3,822 · 76.5%Malaysia312 · 6.2%??269 · 5.4%Pakistan156 · 3.1%6 others listed438 · 8.8%

Shares of the rows listed above, not of the whole node.

Which institutions lead Qur’anic Interpretation Studies research?

By volume in 2022-now, Institut Agama Islam Negeri Bengkulu publishes the most Qur’anic Interpretation Studies research, followed by Sunan Kalijaga State Islamic University Yogyakarta and Universitas Islam Negeri Sumatera Utara.

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Institut Agama Islam Negeri BengkuluIndonesia 368 works
  2. 2 Sunan Kalijaga State Islamic University YogyakartaIndonesia 287 works
  3. 3 Universitas Islam Negeri Sumatera UtaraIndonesia 208 works
  4. 4 UIN Sunan Ampel SurabayaIndonesia 184 works
  5. 5 Sunan Gunung Djati State Islamic University BandungIndonesia 181 works
  6. 6 Universitas Islam Negeri Sultan Syarif Kasim RiauIndonesia 128 works
  7. 7 Syarif Hidayatullah State Islamic University JakartaIndonesia 125 works
  8. 8 Universitas Islam Negeri Maulana Malik IbrahimIndonesia 102 works
  9. 9 Universitas Sains Al-Qur'anIndonesia 98 works
  10. 10 Universitas Islam Negeri Raden Intan LampungIndonesia 88 works

Who are the leading researchers in Qur’anic Interpretation Studies?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Qur’anic Interpretation Studies include Jeremy N. Rich, Muhammad Ali Imran and Aristotle .

  1. 1 Jeremy N. Rich United States 62k citations
  2. 2 Muhammad Ali Imran United Kingdom 35k citations
  3. 3 Aristotle  United States 32k citations

Ranked by citations received across their whole record, among researchers with at least three works on this topic.

What are the most cited papers in Qur’anic Interpretation Studies?

The most cited paper in Qur’anic Interpretation Studies is "An Islamic concept of education" (Mark Halstead, 2004), with 399 citations. Next come "Critical Issues in Islamic Education Studies: Rethinking Islamic and Western Liberal Secular Values of Education" (336) and "Kitab kuning; Books in Arabic script used in the Pesantren milieu; Comments on a new collection in the KITLV Library" (184).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 An Islamic concept of education Mark Halstead · Comparative Education Nov 2004 399
2 Critical Issues in Islamic Education Studies: Rethinking Islamic and Western Liberal Secular Values of Education Abdullah Şahin · Religions Open access 30 Oct 2018 336
3 Kitab kuning; Books in Arabic script used in the Pesantren milieu; Comments on a new collection in the KITLV Library Martin van Bruinessen · Bijdragen tot de taal- land- en volkenkunde / Journal of the Humanities and Social Sciences of Southeast Asia Open access 1990 184
4 The Principles of Qur’anic Research Methodology: Deriving the Process of Knowledge From Revelation Kazi Abdul Mannan, Khandaker Mursheda Farhana · SSRN Electronic Journal PreprintOpen access 2026 155
5 TEORI MAQASHID AL-SYARI'AH DALAM HUKUM ISLAM Ghofar Shidiq 30 Sep 2021 114
All 99 most cited papers, with filters and sorting

Where is Qur’anic Interpretation Studies research done?

The largest centres of Qur’anic Interpretation Studies research in 2022-now are Yogyakarta (Indonesia), Bengkulu (Indonesia), Medan (Indonesia) and Bandung (Indonesia). Among places with at least 20 works in it, it is an unusually large share of all research in Wonosobo, Padang and Ciputat.

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 YogyakartaIndonesia 389 works
  2. 2 BengkuluIndonesia 378 works
  3. 3 MedanIndonesia 313 works
  4. 4 BandungIndonesia 288 works
  5. 5 SurabayaIndonesia 261 works
  6. 6 MakassarIndonesia 230 works
  7. 7 JakartaIndonesia 157 works
  8. 8 MalangIndonesia 154 works
  9. 9 PekanbaruIndonesia 152 works
  10. 10 Kuala LumpurMalaysia 131 works

Where it is the local speciality

  1. WonosoboID · 97.8 works148×
  2. Padang55.4 works116×
  3. CiputatID · 125.1 works75×
  4. PonorogoID · 80.6 works72×
  5. Purwokerto24.5 works66×
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Location quotient: how much more of its research is in Qur’anic Interpretation Studies than the world average.

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Where is the best place to study Qur’anic Interpretation Studies?

Among universities, judged by research, Muhammadiyah University of Surakarta, Sunan Kalijaga State Islamic University Yogyakarta and Sunan Gunung Djati State Islamic University Bandung score highest, combining excellence, specialisation, size, growth and international reach. Research strength is one signal when choosing where to study; it does not measure teaching.

0%10%20%mean 13.32%fractional works in this field (log) →share of work in the world top 10% →Muhammadiyah Univers…Sunan Gunung Djati S…Sunan Kalijaga State…Institut Agama Islam…
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One dot per university in the first ten of the table below, at the default weights. The upper left is the interesting corner: small places doing unusually strong work.

Excellenceshare of its work in the world top 10%, 2022-now and all time averaged
40%
Specialisationhow much of its work is in this field, counted up to 10× the world share
10%
Sizeits output in this field, on a log scale
30%
Growthoutput growth, counted from -20% to +20%
10%
Internationalshare of its work with a co-author abroad
10%
Each slider sets a weight; the share it gets of the score is beside it.
#UniversityScoreTop 10%SpecialisationWorksGrowth
1Muhammadiyah University of SurakartaIndonesia 71.117.5%25.2×68 +939.3%
2Sunan Kalijaga State Islamic University YogyakartaIndonesia 70.410.3%128.6×287 +30.0%
3Sunan Gunung Djati State Islamic University BandungIndonesia 70.113.5%112.5×181 +91.9%
4Institut Agama Islam Negeri BengkuluIndonesia 69.910.2%57.6×368 +83.1%
5Indonesia University of EducationIndonesia 67.619.3%8.9×40 +360.3%
6Universitas Islam Negeri Sumatera UtaraIndonesia 65.310.0%45.7×208 +423.2%
7University of Darussalam GontorIndonesia 63.914.1%153.2×65 +48.8%
8Universitas Islam Negeri Maulana Malik IbrahimIndonesia 61.310.6%63.8×102 +263.0%
9Islamic University of IndonesiaIndonesia 60.818.0%14.8×22 +137.2%
10Universitas Islam Negeri Sultan Syarif Kasim RiauIndonesia 60.49.7%94.0×128 +458.8%

Universities only. The score blends excellence (40%), size (30%), specialisation (10%), growth (10%), international reach (10%), 2022-now; growth compares 2018-21 with 2022-25 and counts up to +20%, since a jump from a small base is mostly noise.

Every institution in Qur’anic Interpretation Studies, country by country

Is Qur’anic Interpretation Studies research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 93% higher than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2025. The fastest-growing topics are Qur’anic Interpretation Studies.

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The same series as a ribbon: one cell per year, darker for more. The line above answers how much; this answers when.

Its share of all research

Growing output can still be a shrinking share: all of science grows. This is Qur’anic Interpretation Studies as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.023% in 2024.

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Fractional works of Qur’anic Interpretation Studies over all fractional works that year. How the balance of science has shifted.

How much of it reaches the world top 10%

Year by year.

still counting5%10%15%Qur’anic Interpretation Studies9.7% in 202520102020

Of each year's works in it, the share that reached the world's 10% most cited for their field and year. A field is the world for its own topics, so there is no other line to hold it against.

Which topics inside it are moving

Growth and decline on one axis around a shared zero. Two lists side by side hide the thing that matters: whether the growth dwarfs the decline, or the other way round.

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