Focus and Scupe

Focus

Dialogues in Qur’anic and Hadith Studies is an international peer-reviewed journal dedicated to advancing innovative, dialogical, and interdisciplinary scholarship on the Qur’an, Hadith, and Islamic textual traditions. The journal focuses on how Islamic sacred texts are interpreted, transmitted, contested, institutionalized, and lived across different historical periods, intellectual traditions, and contemporary Muslim societies.

The distinctive focus of the journal lies in dialogical Qur’anic and Hadith studies, namely research that places the Qur’an and Hadith in critical conversation with interpretive traditions, social realities, intellectual history, religious authority, digital transformation, global ethics, and contemporary knowledge systems. The journal encourages studies that examine Islamic sacred texts not only as textual sources, but also as sources of meaning, authority, identity, ethics, spirituality, and public discourse.

Scope

The journal publishes original research articles, conceptual papers, critical review articles, and book reviews in the following areas:

  • Dialogical Qur’anic Interpretation: classical and contemporary tafsir, thematic interpretation, contextual interpretation, maqasid-oriented interpretation, semantics, rhetoric, translation, and Qur’anic reception.
  • Dialogical Hadith Studies: hadith transmission, isnad and matn criticism, syarah hadith, rijal studies, hadith epistemology, hadith authority, and contemporary debates on Hadith interpretation.
  • Qur’an, Hadith, and Religious Authority: ulama networks, fatwa institutions, pesantren, Islamic universities, digital preachers, online religious platforms, and the negotiation of textual authority in public life.
  • Digital Qur’an and Hadith Studies: corpus analysis, digital archives, computational methods, artificial intelligence, semantic networks, digital manuscript studies, and online reception of Islamic texts.
  • Living Qur’an and Living Hadith: empirical studies on the reception, practice, memorization, recitation, ritual use, education, and everyday engagement with the Qur’an and Hadith in Muslim societies.
  • Manuscripts, Philology, and Intellectual Traditions: Qur’anic and Hadith manuscripts, codicology, textual criticism, marginalia, ijazah traditions, commentaries, scholarly networks, and Islamic intellectual history.
  • Qur’an, Hadith, and Contemporary Ethics: studies on gender, ecology, bioethics, law, education, technology, peacebuilding, public health, interreligious relations, and social justice.
  • Comparative and Transregional Islamic Textual Studies: comparative scripture, intertextual studies, Late Antiquity, Southeast Asian Islam, Nusantara scholarship, Middle Eastern, South Asian, African, and diasporic Muslim traditions.
  • Methodology and Theory: hermeneutics, discourse analysis, semiotics, anthropology of scripture, sociology of knowledge, reception theory, translation theory, isnad-cum-matn analysis, and interdisciplinary research design.