Urdu Dissertations of Islamic Studies on Semitic Religions (MPhil, PhD) in Pakistani Universities: An Index and Bibliometric Review

Abstract

پاکستانی جامعات میں سامی مذاہب پر علومِ اسلامیہ کے(ایم فل ،پی ایچ ڈی) اردو سندی مقالات کا اشاریہ و شماریاتی جائزہ
 Urdu Dissertations of Islamic Studies on Semitic Religions (MPhil, PhD) in Pakistani Universities: An Index and Bibliometric Review
 Study of religions or Comparative Religions is a globally significance subject. Pakistan is also resourceful in this field. In many universities, there are special departments on this valuable subject. It is taught as compulsory course at BS & MA level in the departments of Isalmic studies in all universities. In many universities it’s also taught at MPhil and PhD level, some of them have produced hundreds of MS and PhDs dissertations on this subject. Due to its importance, it was a dire need to review and compile the titles of theses and dissertations, which are produced from the universities on the subject. In this study, efforts are made to review and compile a comprehensive index of such theses at MPhil and PhD level from Pakistani universities with statistical analysis. Due to its huge amount, the data is divided into two major types, Semitic and non-Semitic religions. The current study covers only Semitic/ Revealed and related topics. The word Semitic refers to the race of the son of Prophet Noah (A.S) or the areas where this race was spread and grew. Semitic Religions consists of; Judaism, Christianity and Islam. In this study, Biblometric approach is adopted with mix method approach. Total 393 theses of Islamic Studies on Semitic Religions are compiled and statistically evaluated in this paper. The study concludes that a good deal of literature and dissertations are available in Pakistani universities on Comparative Religions and Interfaith Studies. It is recommended that contents of theses should be analyzed for improvement of the Study of Religions in Pakistan

Bibliometric Analysis of Postgraduate Theses on Religious Coping in Turkiye and its Relationship with Psychological Variables

“…In this respect, it may be recommended to conduct experimental design studies on religious coping. It is thought that this study expands the existing literature on the bibliometric analysis of the theses on religious coping conducted in Türkiye and the literature evaluating religious variables in the context of the theses (Abanoz, 2020;Saeed & Ahmed, 2020;Özçoban, 2020) Furthermore, this study serves as a roadmap for individuals conducting research on the topic.…”

“…In addition, although there are studies based on bibliometric analyses on religious journals (Carey et al, 2023;Harianto, 2022;Hussain et al, 2019;Koç et al, 2019;Şenel & Demir, 2018), there are rarely studies examining theses. Similarly, although there are bibliometric analyses of postgraduate theses on different religious topics abroad (Abanoz, 2020;Saeed & Ahmed, 2020;Özçoban, 2020), rarely any of these studies focus on religious coping. Abanoz (2020) included 46 theses up until 2019 in his research.…”