Focus and Scope

Eduistiqomah in Law (EIL) is a peer-reviewed scholarly journal dedicated to the advancement of legal studies, Islamic law, and contemporary legal issues through rigorous empirical, normative, doctrinal, socio-legal, comparative, and interdisciplinary research.

EIL primarily focuses on Islamic Family Law  and Islamic Economic Law  as its principal areas of scholarly inquiry. The journal provides an academic platform for researchers, academics, legal practitioners, and scholars to examine the development of Islamic law, legal institutions, legal practices, and contemporary legal problems from normative, empirical, comparative, socio-legal, and interdisciplinary perspectives.

The journal welcomes original research articles, doctrinal and normative legal studies, empirical and socio-legal research, comparative legal studies, theoretical and conceptual papers, systematic reviews, and other scholarly contributions that provide substantive contributions to the development of legal scholarship.

EIL covers, but is not limited to, the following areas:

1. Islamic Family Law

  • Islamic family law
  • Marriage and marital law
  • Marriage registration and legal administration
  • Divorce and marital dissolution
  • Rights and obligations of spouses
  • Child custody and child protection
  • Child maintenance and family responsibilities
  • Guardianship and legal representation
  • Adoption and child-related legal issues
  • Family dispute resolution
  • Contemporary family law reform
  • Gender and family law
  • Women's rights in Islamic family law
  • Comparative Islamic family law
  • Islamic family law legislation and judicial practice

2. Islamic Inheritance and Wills Law

  • Islamic inheritance law
  • Faraid
  • Inheritance distribution
  • Heirs and inheritance rights
  • Joint property and inheritance
  • Wills and wasiyyah
  • Mandatory wills
  • Hibah and inheritance planning
  • Inheritance disputes
  • Inheritance through religious courts
  • Contemporary issues in Islamic inheritance
  • Comparative inheritance law
  • Reform and development of Islamic inheritance law

3. Islamic Economic Law

  • Hukum Ekonomi Syariah
  • Islamic commercial law
  • Islamic contract law
  • Sharia principles in economic transactions
  • Muamalah
  • Contemporary economic transactions from a sharia perspective
  • Islamic banking law
  • Islamic financial institutions
  • Islamic insurance and takaful
  • Islamic capital markets
  • Islamic investment law
  • Islamic fintech and digital finance
  • Sharia-compliant financial technology
  • Islamic microfinance
  • Zakat and waqf from legal and regulatory perspectives

4. Islamic Business and Commercial Law

  • Islamic business law
  • Sharia-based entrepreneurship
  • Commercial agreements
  • Contract formation and validity
  • Breach of contract and legal consequences
  • E-commerce and online transactions
  • Consumer protection in Islamic business
  • Business governance from an Islamic legal perspective
  • Corporate legal issues in Islamic business
  • Halal business and halal industry regulation
  • Halal product regulation and certification
  • Contemporary business practices in Islamic law

5. Islamic Banking and Financial Law

  • Legal aspects of Islamic banking
  • Islamic banking regulation
  • Islamic banking contracts
  • Sharia financing and investment
  • Murabahah
  • Mudharabah
  • Musyarakah
  • Ijarah
  • Salam and istishna'
  • Sharia compliance
  • Sharia supervisory mechanisms
  • Islamic financial dispute resolution
  • Regulation of Islamic financial institutions
  • Digital transformation of Islamic financial services

6. Islamic Law and Contemporary Legal Issues

  • Contemporary Islamic legal thought
  • Islamic legal reform
  • Ijtihad and renewal of Islamic law
  • Maqasid al-Shariah and contemporary legal issues
  • Islamic jurisprudence and legal development
  • Fatwa and its legal implications
  • Islamic legal maxims
  • Legal pluralism and Islamic law
  • Integration of Islamic law and positive law
  • Islamic law in modern legal systems
  • Contemporary legal problems from an Islamic legal perspective
  • Islamic law and technological development
  • Islamic law and social transformation

7. Religious Courts and Islamic Legal Institutions

  • Religious court law
  • Jurisdiction of religious courts
  • Judicial practice in Islamic family law
  • Judicial practice in Islamic economic law
  • Islamic judicial institutions
  • Legal reasoning and judicial decisions
  • Judicial professionalism
  • Court administration and legal services
  • Mediation and alternative dispute resolution
  • Litigation and non-litigation in Islamic law
  • Implementation of religious court decisions
  • Access to justice in Islamic legal institutions

8. Islamic Dispute Resolution

  • Dispute resolution in Islamic law
  • Mediation
  • Islamic arbitration
  • Sharia-based dispute resolution
  • Religious court litigation
  • Islamic economic dispute resolution
  • Family dispute resolution
  • Alternative dispute resolution
  • Online dispute resolution
  • Negotiation and reconciliation
  • Legal mechanisms for contemporary Islamic economic and family disputes

9. Islamic Law, Society, and Legal Anthropology

  • Islamic law and social change
  • Islamic law and community practices
  • Socio-legal studies of Islamic law
  • Customary law and Islamic law
  • Local wisdom and Islamic legal practices
  • Islamic law in diverse cultural contexts
  • Community-based legal institutions
  • Social implementation of Islamic law
  • Law, religion, and society
  • Legal practices within Muslim communities

10. Comparative Islamic Law

  • Comparative Islamic family law
  • Comparative inheritance law
  • Comparative Islamic economic law
  • Islamic law and national legal systems
  • Comparative religious court systems
  • Comparative marriage and divorce law
  • Comparative Islamic financial regulation
  • Comparative approaches to Islamic legal reform
  • Islamic law in Southeast Asia and other regions

11. Law, Technology, and Digital Transformation

  • Technology and Islamic law
  • Artificial intelligence and legal studies
  • Artificial intelligence and Islamic legal reasoning
  • Digital contracts
  • Electronic transactions
  • Digital financial services and Islamic law
  • Fintech and Islamic economic law
  • E-commerce and Islamic commercial law
  • Digital evidence and legal proceedings
  • Online dispute resolution
  • Data protection and privacy in Islamic legal contexts

12. Islamic Legal Research and Methodology

  • Doctrinal and normative legal research
  • Empirical legal research
  • Socio-legal research
  • Comparative legal research
  • Islamic legal research methodology
  • Interdisciplinary legal research
  • Legal reasoning and interpretation
  • Judicial decision analysis
  • Legislative and regulatory analysis
  • Contemporary approaches to Islamic legal methodology

Primary Areas of Focus

To maintain a clear and consistent disciplinary identity, Eduistiqomah in Law (EIL) places particular emphasis on two principal areas:

1. Islamic Family Law (Hukum Keluarga Islam)
including marriage, divorce, inheritance, wills, guardianship, child protection, family disputes, religious courts, and contemporary developments in family law.

2. Islamic Economic Law (Hukum Ekonomi Syariah)
including Islamic commercial transactions, contracts, Islamic banking, Islamic finance, Islamic business, halal industry, fintech, digital transactions, sharia compliance, and dispute resolution.

These two areas constitute the core focus of EIL. Other legal topics are considered within the journal's scope when they have a clear and substantive relationship with Islamic law, Islamic family law, Islamic economic law, legal institutions, or contemporary legal development.

Scope Boundary

EIL maintains a clear focus on legal scholarship. Manuscripts must place law at the center of their analysis and demonstrate a clear contribution to legal theory, legal doctrine, legal policy, legal institutions, legal practice, or the development of Islamic law.

Studies involving economics, business, finance, sociology, technology, religion, or other related disciplines are considered only when they contain a substantial legal analysis and are directly connected to Islamic family law, Islamic economic law, Islamic legal studies, or related legal institutions.

Manuscripts that focus exclusively on general economics, business administration, management, finance, sociology, religious studies, political science, or technology without a substantive legal dimension are outside the scope of EIL.

The central research problem of every manuscript should therefore contribute to understanding, developing, evaluating, or applying law, particularly within the fields of Islamic Family Law and Islamic Economic Law.