About the Journal

Focus and Scope

Jurnal Ar-Risalah: Jurnal Hukum Keluarga Islam is dedicated to publishing scholarly works that explore both normative and empirical aspects of Islamic Family Law. It provides an academic platform for the dissemination of research, legal reform, and the integration of theory and practice, with particular emphasis on marriage, inheritance, guardianship, children’s rights, family property, and the jurisdiction of Religious Courts. The journal also welcomes studies on contemporary challenges, digital transformation, and comparative perspectives to enrich academic discourse and strengthen the role of Islamic Family Law in addressing the needs of modern society. The scope of the journal includes but is not limited to the following areas:

• Marriage: registration, polygamy, divorce, ṭalāq, rujuʿ, and fasakh.
• Inheritance and Will: inheritance distribution, obligatory bequest (waṣiyyah wājibah), and grants.
• Guardianship and Children: parental rights and obligations, custody (ḥaḍānah), guardianship (wilāyah), and child protection.
• Family Property: joint marital property, dowry (mahr), financial maintenance (nafaqah), and household economic responsibilities.
• Religious Courts: jurisdiction, procedural mechanisms, mediation, and implementation of judicial decisions.
• Contemporary Issues: interfaith marriage, unregistered marriage (nikah siri), child marriage, and the digitalization of family law (e-court, online administration).
• Comparative and Reform Studies: comparative perspectives on family law in different countries, reforms in Islamic Family Law, and the impact of globalization.

Peer Review Process

All research articles published in Jurnal Ar-Risalah: Jurnal Hukum Keluarga Islam undergo full peer review, key characteristics of which are listed below:

1. Submitted papers are evaluated by at least two anonymous referees for contribution, originality, relevance, and presentation (blind-peer review).
2. All publication decisions are made by the journals’ Editors-in-Chief on the basis of the reviews provided. The Editor shall inform author(s) of the results of the review as soon as possible, hopefully in 30 to 60 days.
3. Members of the international Editorial Boards lend insight, advice and guidance to the Editors-in-Chief generally and to assist decision making on specific submissions
4. Managing Editors and Editorial Assistants provide the administrative support that allows Jurnal Ar-Risalah: Jurnal Hukum Keluarga Islam to maintain the integrity of peer review while delivering rapid turnaround and maximum efficiency to authors, reviewers and editors alike.Jurnal Ar-Risalah: Jurnal Hukum Keluarga Islam additionally benefit through the manuscript referral process from the high quality peer review conducted by established journals.
5. Plagiarism detection of articles in this journal is carried out by using Ithentichate.

Publication Frequency

This Journal is Published two times a year (June and December).

Open Access Policy

This journal is an open access journal which provides immediate, worldwide, barrier-free access to the full text of all published articles without charge readers or their institutions for access. Readers have right to read, download, copy, distribute, print, search, or link to the full texts of all articles in Ekspose: Jurnal Penelitian Hukum dan Pendidikan. This journal provides immediate open access to its content on the principle that making research freely available to the public supports a greater global exchange of knowledge.

Publication Ethics and Malpractice Statement

Jurnal Ar-Risalah: Jurnal Hukum Keluarga Islam is a peer-reviewed journal, published twice a year by Islamic Family law graduate Program, Institut Agama Islam Negeri Bone. It is available online as open access sources as well as in print. This statement clarifies ethical behaviour of all parties involved in the act of publishing an article in this journal, including the author, the editor-in-chief, the Editorial Board, the reviewer, and the publisher.

Duties of Editors

• The editors of Jurnal Ar-Risalah: Jurnal Hukum Keluarga Islam is responsible for deciding which articles submitted to the journal should be published. The editors may be guided by the policies of the journal's editorial board and constrained by such legal requirements as shall then be in force regarding libel, copyright infringement, and plagiarism. The editors may confer with other editors or reviewers in making their decisions.
• The editor, however, double checks each article before its publication. The first step is to check plagiarism and, secondly, against as much as possible online databases.
• An editor evaluates manuscripts for their intellectual content without regard to race, gender, sexual orientation, religious belief, ethnic origin, citizenship, or political philosophy of the authors.
• The editors and any editorial staff must not disclose any information about a submitted manuscript to anyone other than the corresponding author, reviewers, potential reviewers, other editorial advisers, and the publisher, as appropriate.

 Duties of Reviewers

• Reviewers assists the editors in making editorial decision;
• Reviews should be conducted objectively and should be supported by arguments clearly.
• Any selected referee who feels unqualified to review the research reported in a manuscript or knows that its prompt review will be impossible should notify the editors and excuse himself from the review process.
• Any manuscripts received for review must be treated as confidential documents. They must not be shown to or discussed with others except as authorized by the editor.
• Reviewers should identify relevant published work that has not been cited by the authors. Any statement that an observation, derivation, or argument had been previously reported should be accompanied by a proper citation. A reviewer should also call to the editors' attention any substantial similarity or overlap between the manuscript under consideration and any other published paper of which they have personal knowledge.
• Every manuscript submitted to Jurnal Ar-Risalah: Jurnal Hukum Keluarga Islam is independently reviewed by at least one reviewer. Decision for publication, amendment, or rejection is based upon their reports/recommendation.

• Privileged information or ideas obtained through peer review must be kept confidential and not used for personal advantage.

Duties of Authors

• Authors report the original researches;
• Data presented in the paper should be represented accurately;
• The authors should ensure that they have written entirely original works, and if the authors have used the work and/or words of others that this has been appropriately cited or quoted;
• Authors responsible to only submit a manuscript that is free from plagiarism and academically malpractices.
• Authors must state the references from the works cited;
• Authors must write manuscripts based on the applicable rules of academic writing;
• An author should not publish manuscripts describing essentially the same research in more than one journal. Submitting the same manuscript to more than one journal concurrently constitutes unethical publishing behaviour and is unacceptable.

Duties of Publisher

• Jurnal Ar-Risalah: Jurnal Hukum Keluarga Islam is responsible to publish articles after the process of editing, peer-review, and layout;
• Jurnal Ar-Risalah: Jurnal Hukum Keluarga Islam responsible for academic freedom of the editors and reviewers;
• Jurnal Ar-Risalah: Jurnal Hukum Keluarga Islam responsible for privacy, intellectual property, copyright, and editorial freedom.

Publication Frequency

Jurnal Ar-Risalah: Jurnal Hukum Keluarga Islam is a journal published online twice a year in June and December.

Screening for Plagiarism Policy

Jurnal Ar-Risalah: Jurnal Hukum Keluarga Islam

Papers submitted to the Jurnal Ar-Risalah: Jurnal Hukum Keluarga Islam will be screened for plagiarism using CrossCheck/iThenticate plagiarism detection tools. Al-Risalah: Jurnal Hukum Keluarga Islam (Ahwal Al-Syakhsiyah) will immediately reject papers leading to plagiarism or self-plagiarism.

Before submitting articles to reviewers, those are first checked for similarity/plagiarism tool, by a member of the editorial team. The papers submitted to the Jurnal Ar-Risalah: Jurnal Hukum Keluarga Islam must have a similarity level of less than 15%.

Plagiarism is the exposing of another person’s thoughts or words as though they were your own, without permission, credit, or acknowledgment, or because of failing to cite the sources properly. Plagiarism can take diverse forms, from literal copying to paraphrasing the work of another. In order to properly judge whether an author has plagiarized, we emphasize the following possible situations:

An author can literally copy another author’s work- by copying word by word, in whole or in part, without permission, acknowledge or citing the original source. This practice can be identified by comparing the original source and the manuscript/work who is suspected of plagiarism.
Substantial copying implies for an author to reproduce a substantial part of another author, without permission, acknowledge or citation. The substantial term can be understood both in terms of quality as quantity, being often used in the context of Intellectual property. Quality refers to the relative value of the copied text in proportion to the work as a whole.
Paraphrasing involves taking ideas, words or phrases from a source and crafting them into new sentences within the writing. This practice becomes unethical when the author does not properly cite or does not acknowledge the original work/author. This form of plagiarism is the more difficult form to be identified.

 

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