Focus and Scupe
Focus and Scope
An-Najah: Jurnal Ushuluddin dan Studi Islam focuses on advancing scholarly research in Ushuluddin and Islamic Studies. The journal serves as an academic platform that bridges classical Ushuluddin scholarship, Islamic intellectual heritage, and contemporary Muslim discourse, with special attention to Southeast Asian and Nusantara Islamic traditions. The journal emphasizes critical, analytical, and interdisciplinary studies that examine Islam as a theological, philosophical, textual, ethical, historical, and socio-intellectual tradition. It encourages research that engages with classical Islamic sources while responding to contemporary academic debates and emerging issues in Muslim societies.
The scope of the journal includes, but is not limited to:
- Ushuluddin and Islamic foundational sciences, including theology, kalam, Islamic creed, Islamic philosophy, Sufism, and Islamic ethics.
- Qur’anic studies and interpretation, including tafsir, Qur’anic hermeneutics, thematic interpretation, textual studies, and contemporary approaches to the Qur’an.
- Hadith studies and Prophetic traditions, including hadith criticism, hadith methodology, living hadith, hadith interpretation, and the role of hadith in contemporary Muslim life.
- Islamic thought and intellectual history, including classical, medieval, modern, and contemporary Muslim thinkers, Islamic epistemology, reformist thought, and intellectual movements in the Muslim world.
- Comparative religion and interreligious studies, including religious encounters, theology of religions, religious pluralism, and Muslim engagement with other faith traditions.
- Islam and contemporary issues, including Islam and modernity, science, technology, education, ecology, gender, politics, digital culture, and social transformation.
- Islamic studies in Southeast Asia and the Muslim world, with special attention to local Islamic intellectual traditions, Nusantara Islam, manuscript studies, pesantren scholarship, and transregional Islamic networks.
- Methodology and theory in Islamic studies, including interdisciplinary, historical, anthropological, philosophical, sociological, philological, and digital humanities approaches to Islamic scholarship.
The journal welcomes original research articles, conceptual papers, critical reviews, and scholarly studies that demonstrate originality, strong methodology, theoretical contribution, and relevance to contemporary Islamic scholarship.
