Focus and Scupe
Focus and Scope
Islamicate Futures: Knowledge, Ethics, and Muslim Societies is an international peer-reviewed journal dedicated to future-oriented and interdisciplinary scholarship on Islamic knowledge traditions, ethics, religious texts, law, digital transformation, and Muslim societies. The journal seeks to advance original, rigorous, and globally relevant research that connects Islamicate intellectual heritage with emerging challenges in contemporary and future societies.
The journal’s distinctive focus is Islamicate futures studies, understood as the critical study of how Islamic thought, Qur’anic and hadith traditions, Islamic ethics, law, education, digital religion, environmental concerns, and Muslim social life respond to future-oriented issues such as artificial intelligence, sustainability, governance, human dignity, justice, knowledge production, and global civilizational change.
The journal welcomes original research articles, review articles, systematic literature reviews, bibliometric studies, comparative studies, and critical theoretical papers in the following areas:
- Islamic knowledge traditions, turāth, epistemology, philosophy, kalām, Sufism, and Islamic intellectual history;
- Qur’anic studies, hadith studies, tafsir, Islamic hermeneutics, maqāṣid-based interpretation, and digital textual studies;
- Islamic ethics, maqāṣid al-sharī‘ah, Islamic law, fatwa, public reason, governance, and human dignity;
- Digital Islam, artificial intelligence, algorithmic religious authority, online fatwas, platformed da‘wah, and Muslim digital publics;
- Muslim societies, social transformation, citizenship, pluralism, gender, family, diaspora, and minority Muslim communities;
- Islamic education, knowledge production, religious literacy, digital pedagogy, and reform of Muslim educational institutions;
- Islam, sustainability, environmental ethics, humanitarian issues, peacebuilding, migration, public policy, and global futures.
Islamicate Futures prioritizes manuscripts that demonstrate clear research problems, methodological rigor, theoretical originality, international relevance, strong engagement with current scholarship, and significant contribution to contemporary Islamic and Islamicate studies. The journal does not accept purely normative, devotional, descriptive, or local case-study manuscripts unless they offer a clear conceptual, empirical, methodological, or comparative contribution to international scholarship.
