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2026-08-02

Islamicate Futures: Knowledge, Ethics, and Muslim Societies is committed to maintaining rigorous, transparent, and internationally recognized scholarly publishing standards. The journal promotes original and methodologically sound research through editorial screening and double-blind peer review, while upholding publication ethics, academic integrity, authorial transparency, and responsible research practices. It also supports regular publication, international collaboration, interdisciplinary diversity, accurate metadata, open scholarly communication, and the long-term accessibility of published articles. Through these commitments, the journal seeks to strengthen the quality, credibility, visibility, and global relevance of scholarship on Islamicate knowledge, ethics, and Muslim societies.

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Islamicate Futures

Knowledge, Ethics, and Muslim Societies

Country of Publication Indonesia
Publisher Bahtera Al Fikr Press, part of Institut Bahtera Studi Islam
Editor-in-Chief Al Fiqri Ardiansyah, Scopus ID: 60373519900, Google Scholar
Frequency January & July
DOI Prefix DOI: xxxxxx
Language English
Peer Review Double-blind peer review by at least two independent reviewers
Publication Ethics Aligned with COPE (Committee on Publication Ethics) principles and international standards of scholarly publishing
Open Access Policy Immediate open access under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (CC BY 4.0)
ISSN ISSN: 3164-0494 (Online)
ISSN: 3164-0508  (Print)

About the Journal

Islamicate Futures: Knowledge, Ethics, and Muslim Societies is an international peer-reviewed, open-access scholarly platform dedicated to the study of Islamic knowledge traditions, ethics, law, religious texts, and Muslim societies across historical and contemporary contexts. The journal seeks to advance critical, empirical, and theoretically grounded scholarship that connects Islamicate intellectual heritage with emerging global challenges and future-oriented debates.

The journal welcomes original research articles, review articles, and critical conceptual papers in Islamic thought, Qur’anic and Hadith studies, Islamic law and ethics, maqāṣid al-sharī‘ah, Muslim societies, Islamic education, digital religion, environmental humanities, public policy, and social transformation. It particularly encourages interdisciplinary contributions that engage Islamic traditions while addressing contemporary issues such as technology, artificial intelligence, sustainability, governance, human dignity, justice, and the changing dynamics of Muslim communities worldwide.

Islamicate Futures prioritizes manuscripts with clear research problems, methodological rigor, theoretical originality, careful use of sources, international relevance, and significant contribution to contemporary Islamic and Islamicate studies. The journal applies a rigorous double-blind peer review process and is published by Bahtera Al Fikr Press, part of Institut Bahtera Studi Islam .

Current Issue

Vol. 1 No. 2 (2026): Islamicate Futures: Knowledge, Ethics, and Muslim Societies (July 2026)
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Vol. 1 No. 2 ( July 2026) with e-ISSN 3164-0494 and p-ISSN 3164-0508, This issue of Islamicate Futures: Knowledge, Ethics, and Muslim Societies presents five interdisciplinary articles examining contemporary Islamic thought in relation to economic ethics, plural citizenship, climate justice, genomic bioethics, and the authority of fatwas in modern governance. The contributions emphasize the importance of connecting Islamic ethical and legal traditions with human dignity, distributive justice, institutional accountability, religious freedom, environmental responsibility, and the common good. The issue brings together 22 authors from four countries: Indonesia, Malaysia, Tunisia, and Morocco. The contributors represent Universitas PTIQ Jakarta, University of Ez-Zitouna Tunis, Universitas Islam Negeri Sultan Syarif Kasim Riau, Universitas Islam Negeri Sumatera Utara, Université Ibn Tofaïl de Kénitra, Universitas Islam Negeri Sjech M. Djamil Djambek Bukittinggi, Universitas Islam Negeri Syekh Ali Hasan Ahmad Addary Padangsidimpuan, Universiti Sains Malaysia, Institut Ilmu Al-Qur’an Jakarta, Universitas Islam Negeri Imam Bonjol Padang, and Universitas Islam Negeri Sunan Kalijaga Yogyakarta. Collectively, these articles demonstrate the continuing relevance of Islamicate scholarship in addressing social, political, technological, economic, and environmental transformations through critical, contextual, and future-oriented perspectives.

Published: 2026-07-29

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