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“The History of Villages and Rural Settlement in Iran and Islamic”
The journal History of Villages and Rural Settlement in Iran and Islam is published by Imam Khomeini International University. It obtained its official publication license from the Ministry of Culture and Islamic Guidance of the Islamic Republic of Iran on 31 Mordad 1401 (corresponding to 22 August 2022).
This journal is published on a quarterly basis and follows an open-access policy, providing free access to the full texts of its articles. It employs a double-blind peer-review system for the evaluation of submitted manuscripts and disseminates the research findings of university faculty members, researchers, and graduate students engaged in scholarly research.
In the 1403 (2024/2025) evaluation conducted by the Ministry of Science, Research and Technology, the journal was awarded Scientific Rank “B.”

For information on the guidelines and procedures for manuscript submission and acceptance, please refer to the Authors’ Guidelines section.
All stages of manuscript handling—including submission, peer review, revision, acceptance or rejection, and final publication—are carried out exclusively through the journal’s website.
All manuscripts submitted to this quarterly journal are subject to plagiarism/similarity checking.
This quarterly journal does not charge authors any fees for the peer review or publication of manuscripts.
Completion and submission of the Authors’ Declaration Form and the Conflict of Interest Form are mandatory for all authors.
Authors’ Declaration Form
Conflict of Interest Form
This journal is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International (CC BY-NC 4.0). Under this license, all content is provided free of charge to users, allowing them to read, copy, cite, and use the material for non-commercial purposes, provided that the rights of the original author(s) and the journal are appropriately acknowledged and preserved.

This journal adheres to Open Access policies; accordingly, all articles are freely available for reading, downloading, and distribution without any legal, financial, or technical barriers.

Publisher:
Imam Khomeini International University
Director-in-Charge:
b.adelfar@ikiu.ac.ir
Editor-in-Chief:
Nasrolah Pourmohammadi Amlashi
Scientific & Executive Manager:
Mohammad Bakhtiari
International Editorial Board:
willem floor
Christoph U. Werner
Editorial Board:
GholamhosseinZargarinejad
Mohsen Rahmati
Hamid Abdollahyan
Nasrallah Pourmohammadi Amlishi
Fatemeh Golabi
Abdolali Lahsaeizadeh
Mohsen Bahram Nezhad
Abdolah Motevaly
Sohrab Yazdani Moghadam
Baqer Ali Adelfar
Mohammad Bakhtiari
Executive Director:
Atena Rahmani
Technical Editor:
Mahshid Sadat Eslahi
Frequency: Quarterly
Online ISSN: 3060-6012