Focus and Scope

Journal of Islamic and Law Studies is a peer-reviewed journal devoted to the advancement of scholarship in Islamic law, jurisprudence, legal thought, and their interaction with contemporary legal systems, institutions, and societies.

The journal particularly welcomes theoretically informed, empirically grounded, comparative, and interdisciplinary research that contributes to the development of Islamic legal studies in Indonesia, Southeast Asia, the Muslim world, and broader global contexts.

The journal seeks manuscripts that move beyond descriptive accounts by offering clear research problems, rigorous analytical frameworks, original findings, and significant theoretical, legal, social, or policy contributions.

Scope

The journal welcomes original scholarly contributions in the following areas:

  1. Islamic jurisprudence, uṣūl al-fiqh, legal theory, and maqāṣid al-sharīʿah;
  2. Islamic family law, including marriage, divorce, inheritance, wills, guardianship, and waqf;
  3. Islamic commercial, economic, banking, finance, and business law;
  4. Islamic constitutional law, political jurisprudence, governance, public policy, and fiqh siyāsah;
  5. Islamic criminal law, criminal justice, jināyah, and contemporary penal policy;
  6. Courts, judicial institutions, religious courts, dispute resolution, arbitration, mediation, and access to justice;
  7. Human rights, gender, children, disability, citizenship, minorities, and social justice in Islamic legal discourse;
  8. Customary law, living law, legal pluralism, and interactions between Islamic law and local traditions;
  9. Environmental law, ecological jurisprudence, climate justice, sustainability, and Islamic environmental ethics;
  10. Health law, bioethics, medical jurisprudence, and contemporary questions of Islamic legal ethics;
  11. Law, digital society, financial technology, artificial intelligence, cybersecurity, and emerging technologies from Islamic and comparative legal perspectives;
  12. Comparative, international, and transnational Islamic law;
  13. Islamic legal history where it provides a clear contribution to contemporary legal scholarship;
  14. Socio-legal, anthropological, political, economic, and interdisciplinary approaches to Islamic law.

Out-of-Scope Manuscripts

The journal normally does not consider manuscripts that:

  • discuss theology, Qur'anic interpretation, education, economics, politics, culture, or religious studies without a substantial legal or jurisprudential research question;
  • merely describe legislation, religious doctrine, court decisions, institutions, or social practices without critical analysis;
  • reproduce established knowledge without a clearly identifiable scholarly contribution;
  • consist primarily of opinion, advocacy, sermons, teaching materials, or non-research essays;
  • fall outside the stated focus and scope of the journal.

Interdisciplinary research is welcomed when Islamic law or legal analysis remains a central analytical component.