Aims

Abdurrauf Law and Sharia Journal is a peer-reviewed, interdisciplinary academic journal dedicated to publishing high-quality research in the fields of law, Sharia (Islamic law), and socio-legal studies in both national and global contexts.

The journal aims to serve as an academic platform that bridges general legal studies and Islamic legal traditions, with particular emphasis on how law is understood, interpreted, and applied within dynamic and plural legal systems. It seeks to explore the interaction between state law, Islamic law, and social practices, especially within Muslim societies and diverse legal environments.

By integrating normative, doctrinal, empirical (socio-legal), and comparative approaches, the journal encourages critical and innovative scholarship that responds to contemporary legal developments, including social transformation, institutional dynamics, and global challenges such as technological advancement, human rights, and sustainable development.

 Focus

The journal focuses on law and Sharia as dynamic and socially embedded phenomena that both shape and are shaped by social, cultural, economic, and political contexts. It emphasizes the understanding of law as living law, highlighting how legal norms—whether derived from state law, Islamic law, or social practices—are interpreted, negotiated, and implemented in everyday life, particularly within Muslim societies and plural legal systems.

Adopting socio-legal studies and legal pluralism as its primary analytical framework, the journal integrates normative and doctrinal analysis with empirical inquiry to provide a comprehensive understanding of law in both theory and practice. It also examines how law functions as an instrument of justice, governance, and social transformation, as well as how it responds to contemporary issues and emerging global challenges.

Positioned at the intersection of legal theory, institutional practice, and social reality, the journal aims to advance scholarly discourse that is relevant, context-sensitive, and future-oriented.

Scope

The scope of the journal includes, but is not limited to:

1. Law and Legal Systems
   Covering criminal law, civil law, constitutional law, administrative law, business and commercial law, as well as judicial practices and court decision analysis.
2. Sharia and Its Contemporary Applications
   Including classical and contemporary Islamic jurisprudence, Islamic family law, Islamic criminal law (jinayat), and Islamic economic law such as zakat, waqf, and Islamic finance.
3. Socio-Legal Studies and Legal Pluralism
   Focusing on law in social practice (living law), legal culture, access to justice, and the interaction between state law, customary law, and religious law.
4. Law, Public Policy, and Governance
   Encompassing legal reform, public policy, regional governance, law-making processes, and the relationship between law, power, and social change.
5. Judicial Practices and Dispute Resolution
   Including court systems, law enforcement practices, judicial decisions, restorative justice, and alternative dispute resolution mechanisms.
6. Law and Contemporary Global Issues
   Addressing contemporary criminal law, cybercrime, artificial intelligence, environmental law, human rights, gender issues, and other emerging global legal challenges.