About the Journal

Antmind Review: Journal of Sharia and Legal Ethics is an academic journal that focuses on the multidisciplinary study of Islamic law (Sharia) and legal ethics in a global context. The journal presents in-depth articles on various aspects of Islamic law, including legal theory, legal practice, and contemporary issues related to justice, human rights, and morality in society. In addition, the journal explores the study of legal ethics in a multicultural environment and highlights comparisons with other legal frameworks. Antmind Review: Journal of Sharia and Legal Ethics aims to facilitate constructive dialogue and contribute critical thinking in the development of Islamic legal theory and practice as well as legal ethics globally.

The name Antmind Review conveys a central philosophical commitment: knowledge grows through collective intelligence and disciplined scholarly work. The expression “Antmind” evokes the idea that strong intellectual outcomes are not produced by a single dominant voice, but by a community of researchers who contribute carefully, consistently, and collaboratively. Like a system where small, precise efforts accumulate into robust structures, Antmind symbolizes the gradual building of scientific understanding through dialogue, critique, refinement, and the ethical responsibility of scholarship.

The word Review is not merely a label; it signals a method. It reflects JSLE’s dedication to rigorous peer evaluation, conceptual clarity, and methodological accountability. “Review” also indicates the journal’s role as a space for mapping debates, testing arguments, and re-examining established assumptions. In this sense, JSLE aims to cultivate scholarship that is not only descriptive but also evaluative—capable of weighing evidence, addressing counterarguments, and offering durable contributions to academic and professional communities.

The subtitle Journal of Sharia and Legal Ethics highlights the journal’s intellectual scope and normative orientation. Within JSLE, Sharia is approached as a rich legal tradition that is simultaneously normative, interpretive, and lived. It includes classical jurisprudence and its methodological foundations (uṣūl al-fiqh), as well as contemporary applications across diverse societies and legal systems. JSLE welcomes studies that examine how Sharia-based reasoning functions within modern realities—state law, constitutional frameworks, human rights discourse, plural legal orders, customary norms, and rapidly changing social contexts.

Meanwhile, Legal Ethics anchors the journal’s commitment to the moral foundations of law: questions of justice, integrity, responsibility, fairness, and the protection of human dignity. Legal ethics is positioned not as an “extra” dimension, but as the inner compass that guides legal reasoning and practice. For JSLE, legal ethics concerns both the ethics of interpretation, how scholars and jurists justify legal positions, and the ethics of implementation, how legal institutions and actors enact rules in ways that affect real lives, particularly in matters involving family, gender, children, marginalized groups, and access to justice.

By joining Sharia and Legal Ethics, JSLE emphasizes that meaningful scholarship must address the relationship between law and morality, between normativity and social consequence, and between textual reasoning and human experience. This combination reflects a belief that legal research should not stop at “what the rule says,” but also ask “what the rule seeks to protect,” “how it operates in society,” and “whether it advances justice and public welfare.” The journal therefore promotes a balanced engagement: respecting the integrity of the Islamic legal tradition while encouraging critical, contextual, and ethically grounded inquiry.

In short, Antmind Review: Journal of Sharia and Legal Ethics represents a forum for international scholarship that bridges tradition and transformation. JSLE invites interdisciplinary perspectives on law, ethics, sociology, anthropology, political studies, and human rights while maintaining a clear identity: to advance Sharia-related legal studies through ethical reasoning, scholarly rigor, and constructive global dialogue. Through this philosophical foundation, JSLE positions itself as a journal that not only publishes research, but also shapes responsible legal thinking for contemporary and future societies.

Philoshopy

In Antmind Review: Journal of Sharia and Legal Ethics (JSLE), Sharia (Islamic law) and legal ethics are not treated as two separate themes running in parallel. Rather, they are presented as an integrated field of inquiry: Sharia provides a normative framework—what ought to be—while legal ethics ensures that this normative framework remains humane, just, and responsible when interpreted and applied within complex societies. For this reason, JSLE positions itself as an international, peer-reviewed forum that examines the ethical, interpretive, and practical dimensions of Sharia across diverse socio-cultural and legal contexts, both classical and contemporary, through interdisciplinary engagement.

At the conceptual level, Sharia in the JSLE tradition is understood as a living legal heritage. It is not merely a closed set of juristic rulings, but a dynamic space of reasoning shaped by methodological tools such as uṣūl al-fiqh (legal theory), ijtihād (independent legal reasoning), and various modes of istinbāṭ (deriving legal rulings). Within this framework, scholarly inquiry focuses on foundational principles, normative objectives, and the ethics of legal reasoning itself. JSLE particularly highlights maqāṣid al-sharīʿah (the higher objectives of Islamic law) as an overarching horizon for assessing justice, public welfare, and the protection of human dignity. As a result, Sharia is approached not only through the question “what is the ruling,” but also through deeper inquiries such as “why is this the ruling,” and “what moral values does the law seek to preserve,” especially when confronting rapidly changing social realities.

This is precisely where legal ethics becomes an essential partner concept. In JSLE’s intellectual landscape, legal ethics functions as a compass for evaluating whether legal interpretations and practices—within courts, public policy, or social institutions—advance justice, respect rights, and uphold moral responsibility in a balanced and accountable manner. In this sense, legal ethics is not an external moral attachment to legal discourse, but an evaluative standard for examining legal reasoning, procedural integrity, and the social consequences of legal decisions. It encourages scholarship that moves beyond formal legality to consider the lived impacts of law, particularly on vulnerable groups, and to interrogate how legal institutions embody fairness, accountability, and ethical credibility.

The strength of the Sharia and legal ethics approach becomes especially visible when JSLE addresses modern problems as arenas of negotiation among religious norms, state law, and plural social realities. Here, legal pluralism and comparative perspectives become indispensable: they illuminate how Sharia interacts with customary law, national legal systems, and human rights frameworks—sometimes harmoniously, sometimes in tension, but always demanding reasoned argumentation and methodological accountability. Contemporary discussions, including debates surrounding interfaith family issues and evolving legal and judicial policies, reveal how ethical reasoning is tested in practice: whether Islamic legal thought is treated as rigid doctrine, or as a principled moral-legal tradition capable of responding to pluralism and contemporary demands for justice without losing its methodological integrity.

Thematically, JSLE shows a strong core in family and personal status law—marriage, divorce, inheritance, child custody, and gender-related concerns. Yet these topics are approached through the distinctive lens of Sharia and legal ethics, where family law is not viewed merely as a private domain but as an ethical arena in which justice, responsibility, protection of the vulnerable, and institutional integrity are continuously examined. This orientation supports scholarship on issues such as guardianship in marriage, deception and identity falsification in marital contexts, the negotiation between state norms and religious tradition in sensitive family cases, and the ethical role of mediation in resolving disputes. JSLE also encourages reflection on institutional innovation aimed at strengthening justice, including discussions on AI-assisted premarital counseling, court-annexed mediation, and mobile judicial services as mechanisms for improving access to justice.

At the same time, JSLE extends the discussion of Sharia and legal ethics into broader public arenas—criminal justice and humanitarian concerns, democratic governance, environmental responsibility, and emerging issues in the digital economy and technology. From the perspective of legal ethics, the question of normative correctness must be confronted by the question of social consequence: how law shapes human welfare in real conditions. This explains the journal’s openness to debates on punishment and human dignity, legal compliance and sustainability, institutional performance in public governance, and contemporary economic-technological developments such as digital assets and questions of Sharia-compliance. Across these diverse themes, a consistent thread remains: JSLE promotes a form of Sharia scholarship that is methodologically grounded and ethically reflective—allowing Islamic legal tradition to speak through its own intellectual tools while critically examining its ethical implications within a plural, digital, and rapidly changing world.

Antmind Review: Journal of Sharia and Legal Ethics is an academic journal that highlights topics related to Islamic law (Sharia) and legal ethics in a global context. This journal focuses on various important aspects in the study of Islamic law as well as the application of ethics in legal practice.