Al-Azva is devoted to the publication of articles concerned with the Religious and contemporary Muslim World. It is intended to serve as a means of communication between teachers, research workers, planners, administrators and all others interested in the problems associated with the Muslim World.

Al-Azva is a double-blind peer-reviewed, open-access journal by Sheikh Zayed Islamic Centre, University of the Punjab, Lahore, Pakistan. The journal was launched and started publishing in 1996.

Al-Azva holds great credibility in academic and research circles for publishing scholarly articles associated with the modern Muslim world. The journal welcomes all academicians, researchers and teachers for their up-to-the-mark research articles. It covers all pure Islamic sciences and modern applied Islamic sciences. One of the basic aims of the Journal is to develop a close linkage between the intellectuals and the common man of the society with the help of scholarly research.