Focus and Scope

Focus and Scope

The journal welcomes interdisciplinary research that explains how Islam is lived, organized, interpreted, contested, and transformed in society.

Focus

The journal focuses on the interdisciplinary study of Islam as a lived social reality and on Muslim societies undergoing social, cultural, political, legal, economic, technological, and intellectual transformation. It seeks studies that move beyond description by connecting empirical or primary-source evidence to a clear theoretical or conceptual argument.

Scope

• Lived religion and everyday Islam: religious practices, rituals, piety, authority, and Muslim social life.
• Institutions, movements, and networks: Islamic organizations, religious authority, social movements, and transnational networks.
• Politics, citizenship, and governance: Islam in public life, democracy, policy, political participation, and state-society relations.
• Law and socio-legal transformation: Islamic law, legal pluralism, regulation, institutions, and lived legal practices.
• Identity and social difference: gender, family, youth, minorities, migration, diaspora, class, and social inclusion.
• Interreligious relations: diversity, pluralism, dialogue, conflict, reconciliation, and peacebuilding.
• Media, technology, and popular culture: digital religion, social media, religious communication, technology, arts, and popular expression.
• Economy and social change: Islamic economic practices, philanthropy, work, entrepreneurship, consumption, and socioeconomic transformation.
• Education and knowledge production: religious education, Islamic higher education, intellectual networks, and changing religious authority.
• Culture and heritage: local cultures, literature, arts, heritage, memory, and changing forms of religious expression.
• Environment and development: Muslim communities, ecology, sustainability, development, and social resilience.
• Historical, comparative, and transnational studies: studies that connect historical evidence or multiple contexts to wider debates on Islam and society.

Approaches and methods

The journal welcomes qualitative, quantitative, mixed-method, historical, comparative, ethnographic, socio-legal, archival, digital, textual-contextual, and other interdisciplinary approaches appropriate to the research question. Methodological transparency is required regardless of disciplinary tradition or article structure.

Scope boundaries

Primarily doctrinal, theological, textual, educational, legal, economic, historical, or literary studies may be considered when they demonstrate a substantive relationship to social realities, institutions, practices, identities, or transformations in Muslim societies. Manuscripts that are purely descriptive, devotional, normative, or disconnected from the journal's scholarly mandate may be declined during editorial screening.

Governance basis: Permendiktisaintek No. 9 of 2026; Directorate General of Science and Technology Decision No. 374/DST/D.D1/HM.01.01/2026; COPE Core Practices; and the Principles of Transparency and Best Practice in Scholarly Publishing (Version 5, 2026).