Aims and Scope
AHKAM: Jurnal Hukum Islam dan Humaniora publishes peer-reviewed scholarship that advances Islamic law (fiqh and sharia studies) and the humanities through critical, historically informed, and methodologically rigorous research. The journal welcomes interdisciplinary contributions that engage normative, comparative, socio-legal, and humanistic perspectives on contemporary issues in Muslim societies and beyond.
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Aims
Advance Islamic Legal Scholarship
Publish rigorous research in fiqh, sharia, uṣūl al-fiqh, legal maxims, maqāṣid approaches, and Islamic legal thought, supported by robust legal reasoning, careful textual analysis, and/or defensible socio-legal evidence.
Enrich Humanistic Inquiry on Law and Values
Encourage humanities-based approaches—history, philosophy, ethics, religious studies, cultural studies, and intellectual traditions—that illuminate law as a value-based human practice and inform interpretive debates.
Bridge Normative Reasoning and Social Reality
Promote interdisciplinary scholarship connecting law, society, and institutions through socio-legal analysis, legal anthropology, governance studies, rights discourse, and policy evaluation in Muslim and comparative contexts.
Uphold Research Integrity and Ethical Scholarship
Uphold responsible citation, transparent analytical steps, and ethical conduct in research involving people, sensitive data, or communities, with arguments and conclusions logically derived from evidence and sources.
Submissions should state a clear research problem, specify the approach (doctrinal/normative, comparative, historical, socio-legal, or interpretive), and demonstrate a well-defined contribution to Islamic law, the humanities, or their intersections. Where applicable, manuscripts should report ethics approval/consent and provide sufficient detail for verification.
Scope
AHKAM considers original research articles, conceptual/theoretical analyses, critical perspectives, and systematic/scoping reviews in Islamic law and the humanities. Submissions may employ doctrinal/normative, comparative, historical, manuscript-based, socio-legal, or interpretive approaches, provided the argument is analytically defensible and ethically responsible. The journal especially welcomes work that clarifies law–society–values relationships in contemporary contexts.
1) Fiqh, Sharia, and Uṣūl al-Fiqh
Doctrinal fiqh studies, legal maxims (qawāʿid), uṣūl al-fiqh, maqāṣid al-sharī‘ah, ijtihād, fatwa analysis, and legal reasoning in classical and contemporary contexts.
2) Family Law and Personal Status
Marriage, divorce, inheritance, guardianship, waqf, and personal status law, including comparative analysis between Islamic jurisprudence and national legal systems and court practice.
3) Islamic Legal History and Manuscript Studies
History of legal schools and institutions, intellectual traditions, manuscript-based studies, textual criticism, and historiography relevant to law, authority, and society.
4) Socio-Legal Studies and Legal Anthropology
Law in practice, legal pluralism, customary norms, dispute resolution, court and administrative studies, and qualitative/ethnographic research on Islamic law in lived contexts.
5) Ethics, Philosophy, and Rights Discourse
Islamic ethics, moral philosophy, justice, human rights debates, gender and equity, bioethics, and critical engagement with rights and responsibilities in Muslim contexts.
6) Governance, Public Policy, and Islamic Institutions
Governance and public ethics, regulation and policy, zakat and waqf institutions, administrative and constitutional issues, and the role of religious institutions in social life.
7) Comparative Law and Contemporary Legal Issues
Comparative legal analysis across jurisdictions, legal reform, contemporary issues (including digital society, health, environment, and economy), and interdisciplinary legal research with clear evidence and bounded claims.
8) Islamic Civilization, Culture, and the Humanities
Islamic civilization and culture, intellectual history, literature and arts, education and culture, and humanistic approaches that illuminate law–society relations and value formation.
9) Law, Society, and Public Ethics
Public morality and legal ethics, access to justice, dispute resolution, social change, and interdisciplinary analyses connecting law, institutions, and community values.
Types of Manuscripts Considered
AHKAM considers, among others: doctrinal/normative legal studies, comparative legal analyses, historical and manuscript-based research, socio-legal and empirical studies (qualitative, quantitative, or mixed), conceptual/theoretical papers, critical perspectives, and systematic/scoping reviews with transparent search, selection, and synthesis procedures. Submissions must present clear research questions, transparent methods, robust argumentation, and ethical compliance (including consent/permissions where applicable).
AHKAM: Jurnal Hukum Islam dan Humaniora promotes scholarly dialogue by publishing ethically grounded and internationally relevant research that deepens understanding of Islamic law and the humanities in relation to contemporary social realities.