Call for papers! Legal Transformation in Muslim Societies, Vol 1, Iss 1 (2024)! Submit Now!

The Legal Transformation in Muslim Societies is a quarterly journal offering a platform for intellectually stimulating and critical commentaries and new discourses on issues that shape the law in Muslim societies around the globe. Legal transformation in societies is broadly construed as the processes and forms of reform of legal systems and their rules that reflect and promote values, goals, cultures, customs, structures, interests, and working mechanisms of societies. Legal transformation can involve creating new laws, reforming existing laws, or abolishing unjust or oppressive laws. Legal transformation can also affect the way law is interpreted, applied, enforced, and challenged by different actors and institutions.

The Legal Transformation in Muslim Societies welcomes contributions seeking to assess the existing or develop new legal concepts and categories to deal © 2023 Revival Press Limited. All rights reserved. Revival Press Limited is a registered company in England and Wales under company registration number 15280723. [Page |2 of 2] with issues that arise from the transformation, reform, reinterpretation, reevaluation, and reconstruction of Islamic law, diversity and pluralism within Islam, and its cross-cultural interactions. We are also interested in new ideas on the implementation and administration of Islamic law in an efficient and effective manner in Muslim societies through transformation of institutions such as politics (siyasa), judgeship (qadayya), market inspection (hisba), consultation (shura), law schools (madrasas), colleges (madrasas al-tayyibah), etc. as these institutions play important roles in developing Islamic jurisprudence (fiqh), codifying legal norms (usul al-fiqh), resolving legal disagreements (fiqh al-madhdhab), producing legal scholarship (ijtihad), and building culture and civilisations (tamudan). We also seek contributions on aspects such as challenges and opportunities for modernisation. As modernity brings about social changes in the shape of, for example, technological advancements, industrialisation, urbanisation, secularisation, capitalism, liberalism, and globalisation, it also poses new challenges for Muslims in terms of preserving their identity, values, and traditions while making positive advancements to new realities, demands, and expectations from within and outside of their communities. Authors may also focus on modernisation as a source of new opportunities for Muslims in terms of promoting their interests, rights, and welfare while contributing to global peace, justice, and development, through innovation, dialogue, and cooperation with other actors.

Submission and Deadline

All contributions corresponding to the Call for Papers should be submitted to the Editor in Chief Dr Ahmad Ali Ghouri by email: [email protected]. The first Issue of Legal Transformation of Muslim Societies will be published in March/April 2024. All contribution should be submitted latest by 28 February 2024. Submissions well in advance of the deadline are encouraged. The journal will be indexed on Scopus after publication of its first Issue. All submissions are required to follow the Author Guidelines for the journal including the journals’ formatting and citations style.