Journal of Islamic Law

Aims & Scope

The Journal of Islamic Law is an international, peer-reviewed journal dedicated to publishing original, high-quality scholarship on Islamic law and its interaction with society across diverse global contexts. It advances scholarly debates and critical inquiry into how Islamic law is interpreted, negotiated, institutionalized, contested, and practiced within contemporary social, political, economic, and cultural settings, with particular emphasis on socio-legal, empirical, interdisciplinary, and multidisciplinary approaches. The journal welcomes contributions from scholars and researchers across various fields of Islamic legal studies, including Islamic jurisprudence ( fiqh ) and fatwa studies, Islamic family law, Islamic economic law, Islamic criminal law, Islamic constitutional law, and contemporary issues in Islamic law and society. Priority is given to manuscripts that provide critical, theoretically informed, and methodologically rigorous analyses. Submissions that do not align with the journal’s aims and scope will not be considered for peer review.

A twelfth criterion — whether APC fees are clearly disclosed — is not scored here; it is left out of the total rather than counted as a failure. Publication charges appear in the metrics card above.

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Source: OpenAlex · Each year’s green bar = citations earned by that year’s papers, counted to date — so recent years look lower simply because their papers haven’t had time to be cited yet.

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