Generative AI Policy

This policy follows the COPE position statement on authorship and AI tools. It applies to authors, reviewers and editors of Al Furqan.

Authors

  • AI cannot be an author. Tools such as ChatGPT, Gemini, Claude or Copilot cannot take responsibility for the work and must not be listed as authors or cited as sources of facts.
  • Permitted use. AI may assist with language editing, grammar and readability, or with searching and organising literature, under the authors’ full control.
  • Not permitted. Generating the argument, analysis, interpretation of Qur’anic verses, findings or conclusions; fabricating or altering data, quotations or references; and producing images that present invented evidence (for example, of manuscripts).
  • Disclosure. Every article must contain a “Declaration of generative AI use” before the references. State the tool, version and purpose of any use beyond basic spelling and grammar checking; if no AI tool was used, state that no generative AI was used.
  • Responsibility. Authors must check every AI-assisted passage, translation and reference for accuracy, and remain fully accountable for the content, including any plagiarism or errors it introduces.

Reviewers

  • AI is not permitted in peer review. Reviewers must not use artificial intelligence tools to analyse or assess a manuscript, or to draft, write or edit review comments.
  • Manuscripts are confidential. Reviewers must not upload or paste a manuscript, in whole or in part, into any AI application.
  • The review report must be entirely the reviewer’s own expert assessment.

Editors

  • Editors must not upload manuscripts, in whole or in part, to generative AI tools, and must not use AI to replace scholarly judgement or editorial decisions.
  • Editors may use AI only for limited technical tasks (for example, language checking of editorial correspondence or metadata), must disclose such use to the Editor-in-Chief, and remain fully responsible for confidentiality, originality checks and every editorial decision.

Undisclosed or inappropriate use of AI is handled as a breach of publication ethics.