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Islam Realitas: Journal of Islamic and Social Studies is a peer-reviewed journal devoted to the interdisciplinary study of Islam as a lived social reality and of Muslim societies in processes of social transformation.
The journal examines how Islamic beliefs, practices, values, institutions, authorities, identities, and discourses are produced, experienced, negotiated, contested, and transformed within everyday life and the public sphere. It particularly encourages theoretically informed and empirically grounded scholarship that connects local Muslim experiences with wider debates in Islamic studies, the social sciences, and the humanities.
While welcoming scholarship from diverse geographical contexts, Islam Realitas has a particular interest in Muslim societies in Southeast Asia and the Global South, while also encouraging comparative, cross-regional, transnational, and diaspora studies that contribute to broader scholarly debates on Islam and contemporary society.
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Islam Realitas publishes original research addressing the intersections between Islam, Muslim societies, and social transformation. Areas of interest include:
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lived religion, everyday Islam, religious practices, and Muslim social life;
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religious authority, Islamic institutions, organizations, movements, and networks;
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Islam, politics, citizenship, governance, democracy, and the public sphere;
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Islam, law, and socio-legal transformation;
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Muslim identities, gender, family, youth, minorities, migration, and diaspora;
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interreligious relations, religious diversity, pluralism, conflict, reconciliation, and peacebuilding;
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Islam, media, digital culture, technology, and popular culture;
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Islamic economic practices, philanthropy, work, entrepreneurship, and socioeconomic change;
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Muslim communities, education, knowledge production, and transformations of religious authority;
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Islam, local cultures, arts, heritage, literature, and changing forms of religious expression;
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Islam, environment, development, and other emerging social challenges affecting Muslim societies;
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historical studies that illuminate the formation and transformation of Muslim societies and institutions; and
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comparative and transnational studies of Islam and Muslim societies across different social, cultural, and political contexts.
The journal welcomes qualitative, quantitative, historical, comparative, ethnographic, and interdisciplinary research. Priority is given to manuscripts that engage critically with relevant scholarly debates and demonstrate a clear theoretical, empirical, or methodological contribution to the understanding of Islam and Muslim societies.
Studies based primarily on theological, doctrinal, textual, educational, legal, economic, or literary analysis are considered when they establish a substantive connection between their subject matter and the broader social realities, institutions, practices, or transformations of Muslim societies.
