Pakungwati Journal of Islamic Law and Society (PJILS) is a peer-reviewed academic journal dedicated to advancing scholarly inquiry into Islamic law and its dynamic relationship with society. The journal provides an interdisciplinary forum for scholars, researchers, and practitioners to examine Islamic legal traditions, institutions, practices, and transformations across diverse social, cultural, political, and legal contexts.
Published by the Pakungwati Institute for Social Transformation and Justice under Yayasan Pawiyatan Pakungwati Cirebon, Indonesia, PJILS particularly encourages theoretically informed and methodologically rigorous research that explores Islamic law as both a normative tradition and a living social phenomenon.
The journal welcomes doctrinal, comparative, historical, socio-legal, anthropological, and interdisciplinary approaches, with particular interest in studies addressing the interaction between Islamic law, state law, customary norms, social change, and questions of justice.
While giving significant attention to Indonesia and Southeast Asia, PJILS welcomes contributions from different jurisdictions and Muslim societies worldwide. The journal seeks to facilitate meaningful dialogue between Islamic legal scholarship and contemporary debates in law, society, justice, and social transformation.
Pakungwati Journal of Islamic Law and Society (PJILS) welcomes original and academically rigorous scholarship that contributes to the theoretical development and practical understanding of Islamic law and its relationship with society. The journal provides a scholarly forum for exploring Islamic legal norms, institutions, practices, interpretations, and transformations within diverse social, cultural, political, economic, and legal contexts.
PJILS particularly encourages critical, interdisciplinary, comparative, and context-sensitive scholarship that engages with different legal traditions, institutions, communities, and social settings. Contributions may examine Islamic law as a normative legal tradition as well as a living and evolving social phenomenon interacting with state law, customary norms, social change, and contemporary questions of justice.
The journal welcomes contributions from Islamic legal studies, law and society, socio-legal studies, legal anthropology, sociology of law, political and constitutional studies, gender studies, comparative law, and other relevant disciplines. Research addressing the interaction between Islamic law, state law, customary law, legal pluralism, human rights, gender justice, religious authority, and social transformation is particularly encouraged.
Although PJILS gives particular attention to Indonesia and Southeast Asia, the journal welcomes scholarship from Muslim societies and legal systems worldwide, especially studies that offer comparative, transnational, and theoretically significant perspectives.
All articles published in Pakungwati Journal of Islamic Law and Society (PJILS) are made freely and immediately available to readers under the Creative Commons Attribution–ShareAlike 4.0 International License (CC BY-SA 4.0).
This license permits users to copy, share, redistribute, remix, transform, and build upon published works, including for commercial purposes, provided that appropriate credit is given to the author(s) and original publication, any changes are indicated, and derivative works are distributed under the same or a compatible license.
