About the Journal
AKSEN Journal of Contemporary Islamic Law (AJCIL) is a peer-reviewed, open access journal publishing original research at the intersection of classical Islamic legal thought and contemporary legal practice. The journal examines how Islamic jurisprudence — from doctrinal theory to codified family, criminal, and financial law — is interpreted, applied, and contested across Muslim-majority and Muslim-minority contexts, with particular attention to Southeast Asia and the Nusantara region. AJCIL welcomes doctrinal, comparative, and socio-legal scholarship on topics ranging from constitutional and human rights law to Islamic bioethics and digital-age legal questions, published biannually in English and Bahasa Indonesia under a CC BY-SA 4.0 open access license.
AJCIL invites original research papers, conceptual contributions, case studies, and critical reviews that advance both theory and practical understanding of Islamic law and connected socio-legal fields. The journal favors scholarship that is critical, interdisciplinary, and attentive to context, spanning a wide range of legal traditions, institutions, and social environments.
All articles published by AKSEN Journal of Contemporary Islamic Law (AJCIL) are licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution–ShareAlike 4.0 International License. This license allows users to share and adapt published works, provided that proper attribution is given and derivative works are distributed under the same license.
