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Focus:

Al-Ahkam emphasizes the study of Islamic Law and Islamic Legal Studies in muslim societies. Both are studied in the format of contemporary issues in the framework of the reconstruction of thoughts and reform of Islamic law and positive law.

Scopes:

This journal specializes in studying the theory and practice of Islamic law and Islamic Legal Studies in Islamic societies and intends to reveal original research and current issues. This journal warmly welcomes the contributions of scholars from related fields who consider the following general topics;

1. Islamic Family Law
2. Islamic Criminal Law
3. Islamic Economic Law
4. Islamic Jurisprudence
5. Philosophy of Islamic Law
6. Islamic Constitutional Law
7. Islamic Law and Gender Issue
8. Islamic Law and Children Issue
9. Islamic Law and Dispute Resolution
10. Islamic Law and Philology (Turāth)

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Articles

Open Submissions

Indexed

Peer Reviewed

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Al-Ahkam is a journal that follows the peer review process. When an article is submitted to the journal, it will be reviewed by a minimum of two reviewers (associate editors) in a closed (double-blind) review process. The editor (editorial board) will consider the feedback from the reviewers to decide whether to accept, reject or ask the author to revise and resubmit the article. If the article needs revision, the author should make the necessary improvements based on the feedback provided by the reviewer and resubmit the article. All articles submitted to Al-Ahkam will be checked for plagiarism using anti-plagiarism software. The Editor in Chief will make the final decision on the manuscript

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Al-Ahkam is published twice in April and October a year.

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This journal provides immediate open access to its content on the principle that making research freely available to the public supports a greater global knowledge exchange.

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Al-Ahkam utilizes the Public Knowledge Project Private LOCKSS Network (PKP-PLN) to create a distributed archiving system among participating libraries, which are permitted to create permanent archives of the journal for purposes of preservation and restoration. See the LOCKSS Publisher Manifest.