Data Availability and Research Transparency

USRATY: Journal of Islamic Family Law is committed to promoting transparency, verifiability, and responsible research practices in scholarly work concerning Islamic family law and related legal studies.

Authors should provide sufficient information about the sources, materials, data, and analytical procedures used in their research to enable readers to understand and, where reasonably possible, verify the basis of the study.

Doctrinal and Normative Legal Research. Authors should clearly identify and appropriately cite the primary and secondary legal sources used in the study, including legislation, court decisions, fatwas, classical and contemporary legal texts, official documents, and other relevant legal materials.

Empirical and Socio-Legal Research. Authors should transparently describe research participants, sampling procedures, data collection instruments, interviews, observations, coding procedures, and analytical methods, as applicable. Research materials may be shared where ethically and legally permissible.

Archival and Historical Research. Authors should identify archives, collections, catalogues, manuscripts, or other historical sources with sufficient detail to allow the materials to be traced where possible.

Restricted and Sensitive Data. USRATY does not require authors to publicly disclose data where disclosure would violate privacy, confidentiality, informed consent, ethical approval, legal restrictions, or the protection of vulnerable individuals or communities. Authors should explain the reason for any restriction in their Data Availability Statement.

Data Availability Statement. Where applicable, manuscripts should include a statement explaining whether supporting data or research materials are publicly available, available upon reasonable request, subject to access restrictions, or whether no new data were generated because the study relies on publicly available legal or documentary sources.

Editors may request supporting research materials during editorial assessment or peer review where this is necessary to verify the integrity of the research. Such materials will be handled in accordance with applicable confidentiality and ethical requirements.