USRATY : Journal of Islamic Family Law is a peer-reviewed academic journal dedicated to advancing critical, comparative, and interdisciplinary scholarship on contemporary Islamic family law. The journal welcomes original research that examines the transformation of Muslim family norms, institutions, and practices in relation to legal reform, social change, gender justice, child protection, digital innovation, and the interaction between Islamic law, state law, customary law, and international human rights norms. The journal gives particular attention to Islamic family law in Muslim-majority countries, Muslim minority contexts, and transnational Muslim communities and encourages studies that combine normative Islamic legal analysis with socio-legal, anthropological, historical, comparative, political, and technological approaches. USRATY : Journal of Islamic Family Law covers a broad range of topics within Islamic Family Law, including but not limited to contemporary Islamic marriage and divorce law, including marriage registration, guardianship, polygamy, mut’ah, maintenance, marital property, post-divorce rights, and family dispute resolution; maqasid al-shariah and reform of Islamic family law, including reinterpretation of classical doctrines, comparative madhhab studies, maslahah-based reasoning, and ethical approaches to family justice; gender justice, women’s rights, and child protection in Islamic family law, religious courts, family policies, humanitarian crises, and post-divorce arrangements; digital transformation of Islamic family law, including AI-based family counseling, online marriage services, legal technology, digital religious authority, and platform-based family administration; legal pluralism in Muslim family life, including the interaction between Islamic law, state law, customary law, local traditions, and international legal norms; comparative and transnational Muslim family law, including legal reform in Muslim countries, Muslim minority family practices, diaspora communities, and cross-border family issues; socio-legal studies of Islamic family law in practice, including religious court decisions, judicial reasoning, lived experiences of families, community mediation, and institutional practices; and family law, human rights, and vulnerable groups, including women, children, refugees, minorities, and families affected by conflict, displacement, or political instability.
USRATY : Journal of Islamic Family Law (e-ISSN: 3026-7404), is a double-blind peer-reviewed journal published by Department of Islamic Family Law, Faculty of Sharia, Universitas Islam Negeri Sjech M. Djamil Djambek Bukittinggi, West Sumatra, Indonesia. The journal is aimed at spreading the research results conducted by researchers, academicians, and practitioners in the field of Contemporary Islamic Family Law. The articles of this journal are published bi-annually; January-June and July-December. Since 2023, USRATY: Journal of Islamic Family Law use platform and workflow by Open Journal System (OJS) 3.3 and has been registered with Crossref, ensuring that each published article is assigned a Digital Object Identifier (DOI) to support long-term citation and accessibility. The journal is also indexed in various databases such as DOAJ, Google Scholar, Moraref, Garuda, and others. Starting from Volume 3 Number 1 June 2025, USRATY : Journal of Islamic Family Law makes a change manuscript template in order to fulfill COPE standard manuscript and ensure high-quality manuscripts
The editorial team welcomes original contributions which have never been published or considered for publication by any other publishers. Please read and understand the author's guidelines for the preparation manuscript. The author who submits a manuscript to the editors should comply with the author's guidelines and template. If the submitted manuscript does not comply with the guidelines or using a different format, it will be rejected by the editorial team before being reviewed. The editorial team will only accept a manuscript that meets the specified formatting requirements. As a mutually recognized space of knowledge sharing (intellectual community), USRATY : Journal of Islamic Family Law also make links with international scholars and facilitate their contribution through periodically scholars intellectual dialogue, short communication and research articles. Let us collaborate to advance knowledge and make meaningful contributions to the field.
Journal Secretariat: Data Center Building, 2nd floor, Universitas Islam Negeri Sjech M. Djamil Djambek Bukittinggi. Gurun Aua St, Kubang Putih, Banuhampu, Agam - West Sumatra - Indonesia, Postal Code 26181.
