Alustath Journal for Human and Social Sciences is an international, double-blind peer-reviewed, Open Access journal dedicated to the advancement and global dissemination of high-quality theoretical and applied research. Published quarterly by the College of Education (Ibn Rushd) for Human Sciences at the University of Baghdad, the journal has served as a flagship scholarly platform in the Arab world since its founding in 1952.
See the Aims and Scope for a complete coverage of the journal.
Current Issue: Volume 65, Issue 2 (2026)
Articles
An Evaluation of English Language Textbook `Power Up 5' for Grade 5 in Private Schools in Iraq from the Teachers' Perspective
Ahmed Sameer Hashim
Thinking through Critical Metaphor: A Semiotic-Cognitive Study of Political Caricatures
Sarah Tariq Hashim and Mahmood Atiya Farhan
Towards the Poetics of Artificial Intelligence: Disrupting Anthropocentrism in I Am Code: An Artificial Intelligence Speaks
Milad Ghazi Saeed
Adverbial Particles from a Semantic-Syntactic Perspective
Hasan Mohammed Mfreg
The Family Structure in the Early Abbasid Era A Study Based on Al-Baladhuri’s Ansāb al-Ashrāf
Mohammed Aajel Atiyah and Rasoul Jafarian
Humor in Andalusian Poetry (Ibn Khatima al-Ansari as a Model)
Rafed jihad Abdullah
Rustamid Foreign Relations Through the Book of Biographies by Dar al-Din al-Shamakhi (d. 928 AH / 1522 AD)
Zahraa Saeed Fadhel and Ali Atiyah Sharqi
The Effect of the (Predict–Observe–Explain) Strategy on the Achievement of Eleventh-Grade Students in Kurdish Grammar
Sabah Jalil Khaleel
Phonetic Morphology: Its Concept, Justifications for its Emergence, and Foundations of Analysis
Nawal Saleh Mahdi and Omar Rashid Shaker Al-Samarrai
The Development of Distributive and Retributive Justice in Children
Maryam Rusly Faraj and Huda Kamel Mansour
The Effect of Differences in Rating Scales (Verbal, Numerical, and Verbal–Numerical) on the Psychometric Properties of Personality Measures among University Students
Doha Ismail Abdo Abdullah and Hind Subaih Rahim
Ethnography of Languages among Muslim Arabs Geographer
Alia Miri Qassem and Magda Jassim Hussein
Experimentation in Iraqi Feminist Theatre- Selected Texts from the Theatre of the Absurd
Sura Muthana Kadhim and Maha Farooq Abdul-Qader
The City of Ābah During the Abbasid Era (132–656 AH / 749–1258 CE) A Historical Study
Abeer Mohsin Jawad Kadhim
