AL-MAIYYAH: Media Transformasi Gender dalam Paradigma Sosial Keagamaan
AL-MAIYYAH: Media Transformasi Gender dalam Paradigma Sosial Keagamaan is an international peer-reviewed journal that publishes original research articles and critical reviews in the fields of gender studies and socio-religious studies, with a particular focus on Muslim societies. The journal advances interdisciplinary scholarship of international relevance by providing a platform to critically examine gender as a lived, negotiated, and context-embedded social practice within religious and social realities. Its distinctive contribution lies in foregrounding empirically grounded and theoretically informed analyses of how gender is constructed and contested across education, ritual life, popular culture, community structures, and public policy, while situating Muslim contexts within broader global debates on gender, justice, and social change. The journal welcomes submissions from researchers and academics around the world on topics including: Gender and Islamic Studies Gender and Islamic Religious Thought, Feminist Tafsir, Gendered Readings of the Qur’an and Hadith, Gender Ethics in Islam, Contemporary Islamic Thought on Gender Gender, Education, and Cultural Transformation Gender and Education, Cultural Transmission and Change, Gender Socialization, Educational Policy and Gender Equality, Pedagogy and Gender Justice Family, Children, and Social Relations in Muslim Contexts Family Dynamics, Child Development, Parenting Practices, Gender Roles in the Family, Marriage and Kinship Systems Social Empowerment, Identity, and Community Studies Social Empowerment, Community Participation, Civil Society, Gender and Social Movements, Masculinity Studies, Identity and Social Justice Local Traditions and Global Gender Discourses Local Religious Practices, Indigenous Traditions, Local–Global Intersections, Transnational Gender Discourses, Globalization and Gender in Islam All submissions to the journal undergo a rigorous peer-review process to ensure academic quality, originality, methodological soundness, and relevance to global scholarly debates. The journal encourages the submission of manuscripts that present empirically grounded research, strong theoretical analysis, and critical perspectives that contribute to the development of gender studies and socio-religious scholarship. The journal is committed to promoting open access to knowledge and aims to make high-quality academic research accessible to a broader international audience. It also seeks to foster intellectual exchange and collaboration among scholars from diverse cultural and geographical contexts, facilitating dialogue between local empirical realities and global theoretical frameworks in the study of gender, religion, and social transformation.
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Who Controls Women's Pilgrimage? Gender Justice and the Administrative Dynamics of Hajj in Turkey
Zahriani Anugerah Arman
AL-MAIYYAH : Media Transformasi Gender dalam Paradigma Sosial Keagamaan Vol 19 No 1 (2026): AL-MAIYYAH
Publisher : Center for Gender and Child Studies, Institute for Research and Community Service, Institut Agama Islam Negeri Parepare.
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DOI: 10.35905/almaiyyah.v19i1.16962
Women's participation in religious practices has become a critical issue in contemporary Muslim societies, particularly regarding how gender equality is negotiated within institutional and governance structures. Existing studies on women's Hajj participation have predominantly focused on theological debates concerning religious permissibility and male guardianship (mahram), while paying limited attention to how administrative systems shape women’s religious agency, access, and experiences of institutional dependency. This article examines the governance of women’s Hajj participation in Turkey by exploring how state-administered religious governance shapes gender relations through bureaucratic mechanisms.. Employing a qualitative socio-legal approach, this study combines policy analysis, institutional documents, and semi-structured interviews with female pilgrims and Hajj administrators. Drawing on feminist institutionalism and Foucault's concept of governmentality, the study demonstrates that contemporary Hajj governance in Turkey is experienced increasingly through administrative forms of regulation rather than explicit theological restrictions embedded in registration systems, quota allocation, digital platforms, and procedural requirements. The findings reveal that bureaucratic governance generates a dual dynamic: it expands women's formal opportunities to participate in religious practices while simultaneously producing new forms of institutional dependency. This study contributes to gender studies and the social scientific study of religion by showing that gender justice cannot be understood solely through formal equality, but must also consider substantive access, institutional accountability, and structural inclusion. It further highlights the need for religious governance systems that are more transparent, accessible, and responsive to women's diverse circumstances. The Turkish case provides broader insights into how modern Muslim states negotiate the relationship between gender, religion, and state authority in contemporary Muslim societies.
Invisible Labor, Sacred Narratives: The Paradox of Protection and Exploitation of Women Migrant Workers in Saudi Arabia
Umar Sheikh Tahir
AL-MAIYYAH : Media Transformasi Gender dalam Paradigma Sosial Keagamaan Vol 19 No 1 (2026): AL-MAIYYAH
Publisher : Center for Gender and Child Studies, Institute for Research and Community Service, Institut Agama Islam Negeri Parepare.
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DOI: 10.35905/almaiyyah.v19i1.16984
Women migrant domestic workers in Saudi Arabia occupy a paradoxical position within labour governance: they are formally protected yet often face restrictions on mobility, communication, and autonomy. While previous research has examined legal vulnerability and exploitation under the Kafala system, less attention has been paid to how socio religious meanings shape both control and women’s everyday agency. This study examines how women migrant workers negotiate protection, exploitation, and sacred narratives in everyday labour relations. Using a multi-origin qualitative design, it draws on semi structured interviews with 42 participants, including 30 women migrant workers from Indonesia, the Philippines, Ethiopia, and South Asian countries (Bangladesh and Sri Lanka), and 12 institutional informants. Data were analysed thematically through inductive and deductive coding informed by structural vulnerability, sacred narratives, and agency. The findings show that protection mechanisms may also function as forms of control through mobility restriction, communication monitoring, document retention, and employer dependence. Sacred narratives likewise have a dual role: they may legitimise obedience and unequal authority while also supporting resilience, moral interpretation, and claims to fair treatment. Women’s agency is expressed through strategic compliance, relational negotiation, informal support networks, and selective resistance. The study advances a structure culture agency perspective by showing how institutional vulnerability, socio religious meaning making, and relational agency interact in shaping migrant women’s experiences. Effective protection therefore requires both stronger institutional safeguards and greater attention to the cultural and religious meanings embedded in labour relations.
Inherited Spouses or Negotiated Existence? Women’s Agency, Kinship Authority, and Levirate Marriage in Sumba
ABD Faiz Karim;
Wahidin;
Zulfahmi AR
AL-MAIYYAH : Media Transformasi Gender dalam Paradigma Sosial Keagamaan Vol 19 No 1 (2026): AL-MAIYYAH
Publisher : Center for Gender and Child Studies, Institute for Research and Community Service, Institut Agama Islam Negeri Parepare.
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DOI: 10.35905/almaiyyah.v19i1.17060
Levirate marriage has long been understood as a customary mechanism for preserving lineage continuity and providing social and economic protection for widows. Yet this interpretation often obscures the ways in which protection, kinship authority, and women’s agency intersect in everyday decision-making. Existing studies have largely examined levirate marriage through a binary lens of either social protection or patriarchal control, while comparatively little attention has been paid to how women themselves negotiate these overlapping conditions, particularly in Eastern Indonesia. This study examines women’s experiences of levirate marriage in Sumba and explores how they navigate customary expectations, material dependencies, family obligations, and personal choice. Using a qualitative interpretive design, data were collected through semi-structured in-depth interviews, participant observation, and document analysis involving 24 participants, including women with experience of levirate marriage, male relatives, and adat leaders. The findings reveal that levirate marriage simultaneously provides access to housing, family resources, social legitimacy, and child-related support while constraining women’s autonomy through kinship authority, economic dependency, and gendered expectations surrounding remarriage and residence. Women responded through diverse forms of negotiated agency, including strategic acceptance, temporal negotiation, conditional compliance, selective resistance, and collective support. These findings challenge binary interpretations of levirate marriage by showing that protection and control are not mutually exclusive but are relationally intertwined. The study contributes to debates on gender and kinship by demonstrating that women’s agency may emerge not only through overt resistance but also through context-specific negotiation within customary institutions.
Pantangan Masyarakat Pengguna Bahasa Konjo dalam Perpektif Gender
Suhartina Suhartina;
Syaiful Syaiful
AL-MAIYYAH : Media Transformasi Gender dalam Paradigma Sosial Keagamaan Vol 18 No 2 (2025): AL-MAIYYAH
Publisher : Center for Gender and Child Studies, Institute for Research and Community Service, Institut Agama Islam Negeri Parepare.
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DOI: 10.35905/almaiyyah.v18i2.8734
Language education is not only concerned with linguistic competence but also with how communicative practices shape gender relations, learner dignity, participation, and vulnerability. This study aims to develop a Qur’anic-based conceptual framework linking ethical communication, gender justice, and the protection of vulnerable learners. It employed a qualitative conceptual research design supported by a systematically constructed scholarly corpus, integrating thematic Qur’anic interpretation (tafsīr mawḍūʿī) with critical synthesis of contemporary scholarship. Three Scopus searches identified 273 records; after deduplication, screening, and final eligibility assessment, 67 publications were retained for analysis. The cross-corpus analysis generated four dimensions: epistemic integrity and responsible communication, dignifying and non-harmful communication, empathic and empowering communication, and gender-just and protective communication. These dimensions formed the Qur’anic Gender-Just Communication Framework (QGJCF), which connects Qur’anic ethical resources with gender-responsive language-education practices. The framework organizes language education into communicative, formative, and protective functions and positions protection as a communicative process that safeguards dignity, voice, privacy, participation, and agency from gendered and symbolic harm.