Aims and Scope

Hayula: Indonesian Journal of Multidisciplinary Islamic Studies is an international, peer-reviewed, open-access journal established in 2017, published biannually (January and July). The journal examines Islam as it is lived, interpreted, and negotiated within Muslim communal life, with local wisdom and cultural heritage serving as a defining lens through which the journal reads Islamic law, education, political life, and religious practice. Jurisprudential and doctrinal perspectives remain welcome, particularly where they illuminate how Islamic norms are enacted, interpreted, and negotiated within communal settings. Hayula affirms cultural pluralism across diverse Muslim societies worldwide and is not confined to the Indonesian context.

Hayula publishes original research and scholarly review articles across five thematic areas:

• Intangible cultural heritage, local wisdom, and socio-cultural dynamics in Islamic identity and social resilience
• Islamic law, governance, and economic ethics in communal and institutional practice
• Islamic education and political thought in local and global contexts
• Spirituality, religiosity, and evolving religious practice
• Gender, family, and everyday religious life in Muslim communities

Contributions engaging any of these thematic areas are equally welcome from any national or regional context, whether or not explicitly framed through local wisdom or cultural heritage, provided they demonstrate clear relevance to the human and social dimensions of Islamic life. Submissions must demonstrate strong theoretical grounding, methodological rigor, originality, engagement with global scholarly debates, and ethical integrity, and are assessed through a rigorous double-blind peer-review process.