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EDITORIAL SPEECH Advancing Critical Scholarship, Ethical Reflection, and the Future of Islamicate Studies Islamicate Futures: Knowledge, Ethics, and Muslim Societies (IFKEMS) Assalamu’alaikum warahmatullahi wabarakatuh. With gratitude and a profound commitment to academic excellence, we welcome scholars, researchers, and readers to Islamicate Futures: Knowledge, Ethics, and Muslim Societies (IFKEMS), an international, peer-reviewed, open-access scholarly journal published by Bahtera Al Fikr Press, part of Institut Bahtera Studi Islam, Indonesia. The establishment of this journal reflects our conviction that Islamic and Islamicate studies must continue to evolve through rigorous scholarship, critical engagement, and interdisciplinary dialogue. In an era characterized by technological transformation, environmental challenges, shifting social structures, and complex ethical questions, the study of Islamic intellectual traditions requires approaches that are historically informed, methodologically robust, and responsive to contemporary realities. IFKEMS provides an academic platform for examining the dynamic relationships between knowledge, ethics, religious authority, and Muslim societies. Our intellectual orientation recognizes Islamic traditions as historically diverse and intellectually rich fields of inquiry that invite continuous investigation, interpretation, and scholarly debate. We therefore encourage contributions that move beyond descriptive accounts toward theoretically grounded analysis, empirical investigation, and critical reflection. The journal welcomes scholarship addressing Islamic thought, Qur’anic and Hadith studies, Islamic jurisprudence, maqāṣid al-sharīʿah, religious ethics, Islamic education, Muslim societies, public policy, digital religion, environmental sustainability, and emerging interdisciplinary debates. Particular attention is given to research exploring how Islamic intellectual resources interact with contemporary questions concerning human dignity, justice, governance, artificial intelligence, ecological responsibility, and social transformation. Our editorial philosophy is founded on the principles of academic independence, intellectual openness, methodological transparency, and scholarly integrity. We recognize that meaningful academic contributions emerge not merely from reaffirming established perspectives, but also from critically examining assumptions, engaging alternative interpretations, and developing arguments supported by credible evidence. To uphold these principles, IFKEMS implements editorial screening and a double-blind peer-review process involving at least two independent reviewers. We are committed to responsible publication practices, constructive academic evaluation, originality, and respect for diverse scholarly perspectives. Through immediate open access under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, we also seek to promote equitable access to knowledge and broaden the dissemination of research across institutional and geographical boundaries. Our ambition extends beyond maintaining a regular publication schedule. We seek to cultivate a sustainable international scholarly community in which researchers from different disciplinary, intellectual, and cultural backgrounds can exchange ideas, challenge prevailing interpretations, and contribute to the advancement of Islamicate studies. International engagement, however, must be accompanied by substantive academic quality, ethical responsibility, and demonstrable contributions to knowledge. We extend our sincere appreciation to the authors, reviewers, editorial board members, publishing team, and academic partners whose dedication supports the development of this journal. Their contributions are essential to establishing IFKEMS as a credible and intellectually productive space for scholarly communication. We warmly invite researchers and scholars worldwide to participate in this academic endeavor by submitting original research, engaging in constructive peer review, and contributing to critical conversations about the historical trajectories, contemporary realities, and future possibilities of Islamic knowledge and Muslim societies. We believe that the enduring significance of scholarship lies in its capacity to generate new understanding, deepen intellectual dialogue, and address important questions with analytical rigor and ethical responsibility. May Islamicate Futures: Knowledge, Ethics, and Muslim Societies continue to serve as an open and constructive forum for advancing knowledge, encouraging critical inquiry, and strengthening interdisciplinary scholarship. Wassalamu’alaikum warahmatullahi wabarakatuh. Al Fiqri Ardiansyah Editor-in-Chief Islamicate Futures: Knowledge, Ethics, and Muslim Societies (IFKEMS) Bahtera Al Fikr Press Institut Bahtera Studi Islam, Indonesia Website: https://journal.bahsisfikr.or.id/index.php/IFKEMS/index e-ISSN: 3164-0494 | p-ISSN: 3164-0508
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Islamicate Futures: Knowledge, Ethics, and Muslim Societies
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Islamicate Futures Knowledge Ethics and Muslim Societies IFKEMS is an international scholarly journal dedicated to advancing Islamic studies and research on Muslim societies through critical interdisciplinary empirical and theoretically informed approaches The journal provides an academic platform for examining Islamic intellectual traditions knowledge production religious ethics religious authority and social transformation in historical and contemporary contexts The journal promotes future oriented scholarship that connects Islamic intellectual heritage with contemporary global challenges including technological development artificial intelligence social justice governance and environmental sustainability The journal covers Islamic thought and epistemology Quranic and Hadith studies religious interpretation Islamic law and maqasid al shariah Islamic ethics and bioethics Islamic education Islamic economics and social finance religious authority and digital transformation artificial intelligence in religious contexts politics and public policy gender and Muslim family studies migration and Muslim minorities environmental ethics and sustainability and social and cultural transformation in Muslim societies IFKEMS welcomes original research articles conceptual studies comparative research empirical investigations textual analysis systematic literature reviews bibliometric studies and interdisciplinary scholarship that contribute to the advancement of Islamic studies The journal prioritizes scholarly originality rigorous analytical arguments methodological transparency and relevance to international academic discourse Research grounded in local contexts is also encouraged when its findings contribute to broader scholarly debates All submitted manuscripts undergo editorial screening and double blind peer review to maintain academic integrity and publication quality
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Islamicate Futures as an Emerging Field: Rethinking Islamic Studies through Knowledge, Ethics, and Global Transformation Al Fiqri Ardiansyah
Islamicate Futures: Knowledge, Ethics, and Muslim Societies Vol. 1 No. 1 (2026): Islamicate Futures: Knowledge, Ethics, and Muslim Societies
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Show Abstract | Download Original | Original Source | Check in Google Scholar | DOI: 10.68051/ifkems.v1i1.36

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This article conceptualizes Islamicate Futures as an emerging interdisciplinary field for rethinking Islamic Studies in response to contemporary global transformation. The study begins from the problem that Islamic Studies has developed strong scholarly tools for interpreting texts, traditions, legal schools, institutions, and histories, but remains less equipped to analyze uncertainty, future imaginaries, digital authority, ecological crisis, demographic change, and long-term Muslim social transformation. Using a qualitative conceptual design and critical documentary analysis, the article examines Islamic normative texts, global policy documents, institutional reports, contemporary Muslim public declarations, and relevant theoretical literature in Islamic Studies, Islamicate studies, futures studies, digital religion, and Islamic ethics. The findings show that Islamicate Futures is not a speculative discourse about Islam and the future, but a field-building framework that connects knowledge, ethics, governance, sustainability, digital transformation, and plural Muslim public life. The study identifies four core arguments: Islamic Studies requires an anticipatory epistemic orientation; digital religion and artificial intelligence destabilize conventional forms of Islamic knowledge mediation; Islamic environmental ethics must move beyond symbolic language toward institutional implementation; and Muslim demographic change should be analyzed critically through pluralism, governance, education, law, and social transformation rather than demographic triumphalism. The article contributes theoretically by integrating Islamicate studies, critical Islamic Studies, futures studies, digital religion, and Islamic ethics into a coherent framework for future-oriented Islamic scholarship.
Artificial Intelligence, Islamic Ethics, and Algorithmic Accountability: A Maqāṣid al-Sharī‘ah Framework for Responsible AI Governance in Digital Muslim Societies Muhamad Syahrus Sobirin; Muhammad Rizqi Fauzi; Hakimul Nizar
Islamicate Futures: Knowledge, Ethics, and Muslim Societies Vol. 1 No. 1 (2026): Islamicate Futures: Knowledge, Ethics, and Muslim Societies
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Show Abstract | Download Original | Original Source | Check in Google Scholar | DOI: 10.68051/ifkems.v1i1.37

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Artificial intelligence increasingly shapes religious knowledge, education, finance, welfare, identity, and institutional decision-making in digital Muslim societies. Although global AI ethics frameworks emphasize transparency, fairness, privacy, safety, accountability, and human oversight, they often struggle to translate these principles into culturally and ethically grounded mechanisms of algorithmic accountability. This article develops a maqāṣid al-sharī‘ah-based framework for responsible AI governance by connecting Islamic ethical reasoning with contemporary debates on algorithmic accountability. Using qualitative conceptual research, the study applies normative-ethical analysis and critical documentary analysis to global AI governance documents, maqāṣid literature, and scholarship on AI ethics, digital religion, and algorithmic accountability. The findings show that AI governance has shifted from abstract ethical principles toward institutional accountability, auditability, risk governance, lifecycle responsibility, and redress. The study argues that digital Muslim societies require AI governance that protects users as data subjects, moral agents, knowledge seekers, and participants in Islamic public life. The proposed framework translates the protection of religion, life, intellect, dignity, lineage, and property into criteria for religious integrity, harm prevention, epistemic autonomy, identity protection, economic justice, human oversight, and remedy. This article contributes to Islamic ethics, AI governance, digital religion, and Islamicate Futures by offering an operational model of maqāṣid-based algorithmic accountability.
Muslim Digital Publics and the Politics of Piety: Religious Identity Formation, Digital Authority, and Moral Visibility in Online Islamic Communities Fadhal al Khalidi; Rayyan Fitrah Mulya; Farhan Hasyimi; Mas Habibi Nawi
Islamicate Futures: Knowledge, Ethics, and Muslim Societies Vol. 1 No. 1 (2026): Islamicate Futures: Knowledge, Ethics, and Muslim Societies
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Show Abstract | Download Original | Original Source | Check in Google Scholar | DOI: 10.68051/ifkems.v1i1.38

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This article examines how Muslim religious identity is formed in online Islamic communities through the interaction of digital authority, moral visibility, and the politics of piety. It addresses the problem that digital platforms have become arenas for Islamic knowledge, ethical self-presentation, religious learning, and public debate, while existing scholarship treats online da‘wa, digital authority, Muslim identity, and pious visibility as separate fields of inquiry. Using a qualitative approach that combines digital ethnography, netnography, thematic analysis, and critical discourse analysis, the study analyzes materials, including posts, captions, videos, sermon clips, visual symbols, comment threads, platform policies, transparency reports, and Islamic documents on digital communication ethics. The findings show that Muslim digital publics operate as networked arenas where religious identity is produced through repeated encounters with Islamic symbols, moral narratives, audience responses, and platformed interaction. Digital authority is not simply transferred from classical institutions to online spaces, but reconfigured through textual reference, perceived credibility, affective proximity, platform visibility, algorithmic circulation, and audience validation. Moral visibility transforms piety into a public and interactive practice, enabling religious expression while generating ethical risks such as performative religiosity, moral surveillance, reputational anxiety, and commodification of pious identity. The article contributes to digital religion, Islamic studies, and Islamicate studies by proposing moral visibility as an analytical concept for understanding Muslim identity, authority, and ethics in platform-mediated publics.
From Turāth to Digital Knowledge: Islamic Intellectual Traditions and the Future of Religious Learning Firdah Nailil Karimah; Ahmad Luthvan Habiburrahman; Warda Mardiana Tambunan; Jesimawati Jesimawati
Islamicate Futures: Knowledge, Ethics, and Muslim Societies Vol. 1 No. 1 (2026): Islamicate Futures: Knowledge, Ethics, and Muslim Societies
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Show Abstract | Download Original | Original Source | Check in Google Scholar | DOI: 10.68051/ifkems.v1i1.40

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The study responds to the problem that Islamic knowledge is now accessed through digital libraries, online courses, social media platforms, mobile applications, searchable databases, and artificial intelligence-assisted tools, yet the epistemic and pedagogical consequences of this shift remain insufficiently theorized. Using a qualitative conceptual-interpretive design, the article combines conceptual analysis, hermeneutic textual interpretation, digital content analysis, and comparative media analysis of publicly accessible Islamic learning materials, digital platforms, and relevant scholarly literature. The findings show four main transformations. First, digital platforms re-mediate turāth into searchable, modular, and platform-dependent knowledge infrastructures. Second, digital learning environments reshape the classical relationship between text, teacher, learner, and institution by redistributing pedagogical authority across platforms, applications, learners, and digital publics. Third, digital Islamic knowledge expands access while also producing epistemic risks, including fragmentation, simplification, decontextualization, and weakened interpretive depth. Fourth, artificial intelligence-assisted religious learning raises future-oriented questions about source transparency, scholarly supervision, privacy, accountability, and ethical governance. The article contributes theoretically by integrating Islamic intellectual history, Islamic education, digital religion, mediatization theory, platform studies, and artificial intelligence ethics into a framework for understanding the future of religious learning. It argues that digital Islamic learning must be governed in ways that expand access while preserving the depth, plurality, discipline, and ethical responsibility of turāth.
Digital Fatwas and the Transformation of Religious Authority in Contemporary Muslim Societies Marhamah Annazah Tambunan; Maulida Fitria
Islamicate Futures: Knowledge, Ethics, and Muslim Societies Vol. 1 No. 1 (2026): Islamicate Futures: Knowledge, Ethics, and Muslim Societies
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Show Abstract | Download Original | Original Source | Check in Google Scholar | DOI: 10.68051/ifkems.v1i1.41

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This article examines how digital fatwas transform religious authority in contemporary Muslim societies. The study begins from the problem that Islamic legal guidance is increasingly accessed through websites, social media, question-and-answer portals, searchable archives, short videos, and algorithmically mediated platforms, yet existing scholarship often treats online fatwas mainly as instruments of dissemination rather than as mediated forms of authority. Using a qualitative digital religion design, the study combines digital content analysis, netnographic observation, and thematic analysis of publicly accessible digital fatwa materials from institutional and non-institutional platforms. The findings show that digital fatwas reconfigure Islamic authority in four major ways. First, formal fatwa institutions become platformized through online consultation systems, searchable archives, thematic classification, anonymity, and digital service infrastructures. Second, the classical relation between the mufti and the questioner is transformed into networked Muslim publics, where fatwas circulate, are interpreted, and gain authority through wider audience participation. Third, digital media reshape Islamic legal reasoning by translating complex juristic deliberation into media-friendly formats marked by brevity, clarity, visibility, and shareability. Fourth, digital fatwas point toward future challenges of ethics, governance, artificial intelligence, privacy, accountability, and public trust. The article contributes theoretically by integrating Islamic legal studies, digital religion, and mediatization theory, arguing that contemporary fatwa authority must be understood through both classical juristic categories and digital media infrastructures.
Beyond Growth and Charity: Reconstructing Islamic Economic Ethics through Welfare, Distributive Justice, and Social Responsibility Muhammad Ikhlas Supardin; Danial Fayyadl; Abbas Hamonangan Harahap; Fajrul Falah
Islamicate Futures: Knowledge, Ethics, and Muslim Societies Vol. 1 No. 2 (2026): Islamicate Futures: Knowledge, Ethics, and Muslim Societies (July 2026)
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Show Abstract | Download Original | Original Source | Check in Google Scholar | DOI: 10.68051/ifkems.v1i2.42

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Contemporary Islamic economics is frequently evaluated through financial growth, market expansion, Sharia compliance, and charitable distribution, yet these indicators do not adequately demonstrate whether economic institutions improve human welfare, reduce structural inequality, or fulfil broader social and environmental responsibilities. This study aims to reconstruct Islamic economic ethics by integrating multidimensional welfare, distributive justice, and institutional social responsibility within a unified analytical framework. It employs a qualitative document-based design combining content analysis, reflexive thematic analysis, normative-hermeneutical interpretation, and conceptual reconstruction. Foundational and contemporary scholarship on Islamic Moral Economy, maqāṣid al-sharīʿah, the capability approach, distributive justice, and corporate responsibility, as well as international development reports and institutional frameworks on Islamic social finance and sustainability. The findings show, first, that financial growth and formal Sharia compliance are necessary but insufficient measures of Islamic economic success. Second, welfare should be understood as the substantive capability to attain health, knowledge, security, dignity, participation, moral agency, and resilience. Third, zakat, waqf, charitable transfers, and debt relief remain essential but cannot replace structural reforms addressing unequal wages, concentrated ownership, asymmetrical bargaining power, and uneven exposure to economic and ecological risks. Fourth, social responsibility must be institutionalized through differentiated obligations, transparent governance, impact assessment, stakeholder participation, and access to remedy. The study contributes an Integrated Islamic Economic Ethics Framework that connects ethical economic activity, multidimensional welfare, structural distributive justice, institutional responsibility, and impact verification, thereby strengthening Islamic Moral Economy as a future-oriented framework for sustainable development and accountable governance.
The Ambivalence of Stewardship: A Critical Reconstruction of Qur’anic Environmental Ethics and Climate Justice Aisyah Nur; Mei Arina Ilmi AS; Muhammad Rizqi Siregar; Jesimawati Jesimawati; Syimir Asyraaf Bin Eddie Halim
Islamicate Futures: Knowledge, Ethics, and Muslim Societies Vol. 1 No. 2 (2026): Islamicate Futures: Knowledge, Ethics, and Muslim Societies (July 2026)
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Show Abstract | Download Original | Original Source | Check in Google Scholar | DOI: 10.68051/ifkems.v1i2.43

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Contemporary Islamic environmental discourse frequently presents stewardship as the primary Qur’anic foundation for ecological responsibility, yet this formulation often leaves unresolved questions concerning anthropocentrism, unequal climate burdens, nonhuman value, and institutional accountability. This study critically reconstructs Qur’anic environmental ethics in relation to climate justice and develops a framework capable of addressing these limitations. It employs a qualitative document-based design combining content analysis, critical hermeneutics, and normative conceptual reconstruction. The corpus includes selected Qur’anic passages, representative classical and modern exegetical works, contemporary Muslim environmental declarations, international climate-governance instruments, and authoritative scientific assessments. The findings show, first, that stewardship is not a self-contained Qur’anic environmental doctrine but a modern interpretive reconstruction whose legitimacy depends on subordinating human authority to accountability and moral limits. Second, passages concerning animal communities, cosmic glorification, and balance provide a stronger basis for decentring human moral sovereignty and recognizing nonhuman forms of life as ethically significant. Third, general appeals to shared responsibility are inadequate for climate justice unless obligations are differentiated according to historical contribution, present capacity, vulnerability, and exclusion from decision-making. These findings support a critical Islamicate climate-justice framework composed of five interdependent dimensions: limited authority, creaturely recognition, differentiated responsibility, participatory governance, and restorative transformation. The study contributes theoretically by integrating Qur’anic interpretation, multidimensional climate-justice theory, and Islamicate institutional analysis. It argues that Qur’anic environmental ethics becomes publicly consequential not by claiming scriptural completeness, but by providing a critical vocabulary for evaluating power, distributing obligations, recognizing ecological plurality, and holding institutions accountable for environmental harm.
Rethinking Islamic Public Reason for Plural Citizenship: Ethics, Law, and Social Cohesion in Muslim-Majority Societies Warda Mardiana Tambunan; Muhammad Jihad Azni Lubis; Dian Andini; Afifah Rabbaniyatul Ummah
Islamicate Futures: Knowledge, Ethics, and Muslim Societies Vol. 1 No. 2 (2026): Islamicate Futures: Knowledge, Ethics, and Muslim Societies (July 2026)
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Show Abstract | Download Original | Original Source | Check in Google Scholar | DOI: 10.68051/ifkems.v1i2.44

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Religious pluralism in Muslim-majority societies raises a persistent question concerning how Islamic ethical and legal reasoning can contribute to public life without undermining equal citizenship, religious freedom, and social cohesion. This study aims to reconstruct Islamic public reason as a normative and institutional framework for plural citizenship by examining how religious identity, legal authority, minority recognition, and state coercion are formulated across different constitutional settings. It employs qualitative comparative document analysis, directed content analysis, and comparative normative interpretation of constitutional texts, judicial decisions, international human-rights instruments, and Islamic declarations relating to Indonesia, Morocco, and Tunisia. The findings demonstrate, first, that these states exhibit constitutional hybridity rather than a simple Islamic–secular divide, combining religious commitments with equality, freedom, national sovereignty, and cultural plurality. Second, Islamic normativity cannot be equated with state-enforceable law, because theological truth, moral obligation, juristic judgment, and coercive legislation represent distinct forms of authority. Third, plural citizenship requires more than formal nationality or passive toleration; it depends on equal administrative recognition and effective opportunities to challenge public classifications and decisions. Fourth, social cohesion is more sustainably generated through accountable disagreement than through enforced religious uniformity. On this basis, the study proposes an Islamic Public Reason Framework for Plural Citizenship comprising normative openness, reciprocal civic justification, differentiated legal authority, and institutional contestability. The framework advances Islamic and Islamicate scholarship by preserving the public relevance of Islamic ethical reasoning while requiring every exercise of coercive authority to remain proportionate, reviewable, and accountable to citizens as political equals.
Beyond Permissibility: Human Dignity and Intergenerational Justice in Islamic Bioethical Governance of Heritable Gene Editing and Embryo Selection Syahfitri Rahmawati; Sarah Rifhani Binti Surahman; Syifa Farizkha Indriani; Shofwatun Niswah; Syah Fitriani Nasution
Islamicate Futures: Knowledge, Ethics, and Muslim Societies Vol. 1 No. 2 (2026): Islamicate Futures: Knowledge, Ethics, and Muslim Societies (July 2026)
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Show Abstract | Download Original | Original Source | Check in Google Scholar | DOI: 10.68051/ifkems.v1i2.46

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Rapid developments in heritable genome editing and embryo selection have intensified ethical debates concerning therapeutic intervention, reproductive choice, human dignity, lineage, and responsibility toward future generations. This study examines how Islamic bioethics can govern these technologies beyond a narrow permissibility-based approach. It aims to analyze the construction of human dignity in Islamic bioethical discourse, compare Islamic ethical principles with international biomedical governance, and develop an integrated framework for evaluating reproductive genomic technologies. The study employs qualitative comparative normative document analysis of Islamic jurisprudential resolutions, international bioethical declarations and guidelines, regulatory documents, and relevant biomedical studies. The findings show that therapeutic genome editing may be ethically justified only when its clinical benefits remain proportionate to the risks and burdens of the entire treatment pathway. The analysis also demonstrates that the distinction between therapy and enhancement becomes unstable in embryo selection, particularly when testing shifts from severe monogenic disorders to probabilistic disease ranking and non-medical traits. Human dignity is therefore reconstructed through ontological, relational, institutional, and intergenerational dimensions. Based on these findings, the article proposes a dignity-based Islamic governance framework integrating therapeutic purpose, scientific validity, proportionality, lineage integrity, reproductive agency, intergenerational responsibility, and distributive justice. The study contributes theoretically by repositioning Islamic bioethics as a continuous, multidisciplinary, and evidence-responsive system of governance rather than a reactive mechanism for classifying emerging technologies as permissible or prohibited.
Fatwa, State, and Public Morality: Islamic Legal Authority in Contemporary Governance Systems Asrim Muda Harahap; Nosudera TTR; Ilman Sakti Siregar; Umi Amaliyah
Islamicate Futures: Knowledge, Ethics, and Muslim Societies Vol. 1 No. 2 (2026): Islamicate Futures: Knowledge, Ethics, and Muslim Societies (July 2026)
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Show Abstract | Download Original | Original Source | Check in Google Scholar | DOI: 10.68051/ifkems.v1i2.47

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Fatwas increasingly shape public policy, moral regulation, and digital religious communication, yet their authority cannot be explained adequately through the conventional distinction between binding and nonbinding opinions. This study examines how fatwa institutions are authorized, how advisory religious opinions acquire regulatory or coercive effects, and under what conditions such transformation remains compatible with juristic plurality, religious freedom, equal citizenship, and accountable governance. It employs a qualitative comparative socio-legal design combining document analysis, directed qualitative content analysis, comparative legal interpretation, and normative evaluation across Indonesia, Egypt, Morocco, Malaysia, and Türkiye. The corpus consists of constitutional texts, statutes, regulations, gazetted instruments, official fatwas, judicial decisions, institutional documents, and relevant international legal standards. The findings show that contemporary fatwa authority is institutionally hybrid and emerges through different combinations of scholarly legitimacy, constitutional authorization, bureaucratic capacity, political recognition, judicial reception, regulatory incorporation, and public acceptance. Fatwas become publicly consequential through a contingent process of institutional translation from epistemic and advisory authority to administrative, regulatory, and sometimes coercive authority. This process may generate unequal burdens for religious minorities, women, dissenting Muslims, converts, nonbelievers, and other citizens whose convictions differ from official interpretations. Digital platforms further reshape authority by introducing algorithmic visibility, online popularity, and platform engagement as new sources of influence. The study contributes an Institutional Translation of Fatwa Authority Framework that explains how religious interpretation becomes public power while identifying transparency, proportionality, non-discrimination, reviewability, and digital accountability as essential safeguards for legitimate fatwa governance.

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