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Submission Preparation Checklist

As part of the submission process, authors are required to check off their submission's compliance with all of the following items, and submissions may be returned to authors that do not adhere to these guidelines.
  • The submission has not been previously published, nor is it before another journal for consideration (or an explanation has been provided in Comments to the Editor).
  • The submission file is in OpenOffice, Microsoft Word, RTF, or WordPerfect document file format.
  • Where available, URLs for the references have been provided.
  • The text is single-spaced; uses a 12-point font; employs italics, rather than underlining (except with URL addresses); and all illustrations, figures, and tables are placed within the text at the appropriate points, rather than at the end.
  • The text adheres to the stylistic and bibliographic requirements outlined in the Author Guidelines, which is found in About the Journal.
  • If submitting to a peer-reviewed section of the journal, the instructions in Ensuring a Blind Review have been followed.

Author Guidelines

Muẚṣarah: Jurnal Kajian Islam Kontemporer, published twice a year since 2019, is a peer-reviewed journal and specializes in Islamic and Humanities studies. The aim is to provide readers with the recent developments and a thorough understanding of Islamic spirituality that integrates with various disciplines and humanities studies in the context of Indonesia through the publication of articles, research reports, and book reviews.

The journal welcomes and acknowledges scholars and professionals working in all disciplines in the humanities and social sciences studies pertaining to Islam or Muslim societies in Indonesia. The submitted articles should be original, research-based, unpublished or not under review for possible publication in other journals. All submitted papers are subject to review of the editors, editorial board, and blind reviewers. Submissions that violate the guidelines will be rejected without being reviewed.

Articles should be written in Bahasa Indonesia, and American English approximately 2.000-4.000 words including text, all tables and figures, notes, references, and appendices intended for publication. All submission must include an approximate of 150-300 words and 3-5 keywords of abstract, and apply zotero reference tool. Islam h accepts only soft-file or electronic submissions. Therefore, authors must log in before submit their article. Please click here to log in

Examples of footnote style:
1Harry J. Benda, Continuity and Change in Southeast Asia: Selected Journal Articles of Harry J. Benda (New Haven: Yale University, 1973), 23.
2Ibid., 29.
3Ibid.
4Harry J. Benda, The Crescent and the Rising Sun: Indonesian Islam under the Japanese Occupation 1942-1945 (The Hague: Van Hoeve, 1983), 174.
5Kees van Dijk, “Colonial Fear: the Netherlands Indies and Malay Pennisula 1890-1918, Pan Islamism and the Germano-Indian Plot”, in Transcending Borders: Arabs, Politics, Trade, and Islam in Southeast Asia, edited by H. de Jonge and N. Kaptein (Leiden: KITLV Press, 2002), 245.
6Kees van Dijk, “From Head to Toe: Dress, Script, Cultur, and Identity”, presented at the International Workshop on Southeast Asian Studies, Script as Identity Marker in Southeast Asia Jakarta, 2004, 54.
7Harry J. Benda, Continuity and Change in Southeast Asia, 43.
8N.J.G. Kaptein, “The Sayyid and the Queen: Sayyid Uthman on Queen Wilhelmina’s Inauguration on the Throne of the Netherland in 1898”, Journal of Islamic Studies, Volume 9, Number 2, 1988 (DOI: 10.1093/jis/9.2.158), 234-245.
9Mikihiro Moriyama, “A New Spirit: Sundanese Publishing and the Changing Configuration of Writing in Nineteenth Century West Java”, Ph.D. Thesis, Leiden University, 2003, 67
Examples of References:

Benda, Harry J. Continuity and Change in Southeast Asia: Selected Journal Articles of Harry J. Benda. New Haven: Yale University, 1973.
___. The Crescent and the Rising Sun: Indonesian Islam under the Japanese Occupation 1942-1945. The Hague: Van Hoeve, 1983.
Dijk, Kees van. “Colonial Fear: the Netherlands Indies and Malay Pennisula 1890-1918, Pan Islamism and the Germano-Indian Plot”, in Transcending Borders: Arabs, Politics, Trade, and Islam in Southeast Asia, edited by H. de Jonge and N. Kaptein. Leiden: KITLV Press, 2002.
___. “From Head to Toe: Dress, Script, Cultur, and Identity”, presented at the International Workshop on Southeast Asian Studies, Script as Identity Marker in Southeast Asia Jakarta, 2004.
Kaptein, N.J.G. “The Sayyid and the Queen: Sayyid Uthman on Queen Wilhelmina’s Inauguration on the Throne of the Netherland in 1898”, Journal of Islamic Studies, Volume 9, Number 2, 1988 (DOI: 10.1093/jis/9.2.158).
Moriyama, Mikihiro. “A New Spirit: Sundanese Publishing and the Changing Configuration of Writing in Nineteenth Century West Java”, Ph.D. Thesis, Leiden University, 2003.

The structure of articles and the style and format of footnotes and references, should follow those of Muẚṣarah: Jurnal Kajian Islam Kontemporer article template and it is available in word document format for download here and for more information related to Author Guidelines can be download here


Please consider the following creteria:

The title of the article submitted to Muẚṣarah: Jurnal Kajian Islam Kontemporer should reflect a specific focus of study, based on researches--be they library or fieldwork researches--and thus the author can have a general statement and sub-title specifically confining the scope of study
The article submitted should be based on research--be it library or fieldwork or other kinds of researches
The article should present bibliography which entails primary sources--books, manuscripts, interviews, or observation--and updated secondary sources from books or peer reviewed journals
The article should contain an argument/thesis/finding which contribute to scholarly discussion in a field of study which should clearly be mentioned and systematically presented in abstract, content, and conclusion
The article should be written in a good command of Indonesia or American English, or at least can be understood; the author is fully responsible in fixing and editing the English used; the copy editor of Islam Kontemporer is responsible only for minor typos and understandable grammatical errors.

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Authors who publish with this journal agree to the following terms:

  • Authors retain copyright and grant the journal right of first publication with the work simultaneously licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution License that allows others to share the work with an acknowledgement of the work's authorship and initial publication in this journal.
  • Authors are able to enter into separate, additional contractual arrangements for the non-exclusive distribution of the journal's published version of the work (e.g., post it to an institutional repository or publish it in a book), with an acknowledgement of its initial publication in this journal.
  • Authors are permitted and encouraged to post their work online (e.g., in institutional repositories or on their website) prior to and during the submission process, as it can lead to productive exchanges, as well as earlier and greater citation of published work.

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