Focus and Scope

MU'ASYARAH aims to serve as an academic discussion ground on the development of Islamic Family Law and gender issues. It is intended to contribute to the long-standing (classical) debate and to the ongoing development of Islamic Family Law and gender issues regardless of time, region, and medium in both theoretical or empirical studies. Al-Ahwal always places Islamic Family Law and Gender issues as the focus and scope of academic inquiry.

Section Policies

Articles

Open Submissions

Indexed

Peer Reviewed

Peer Review Process

The Chief/Managing Editor will oversee the further handling of the manuscript. They will request a minimum of two scientists to review the research article. Every manuscript submitted to MU'ASYARAH undergoes a double-blind review by at least two reviewers. The publication, revision, or rejection of the manuscript is based on their reports and recommendations. If necessary, in certain cases, the editor may submit the article for review to a third reviewer before making a decision.

Publication Frequency

2 Issue per 1 year (April & October)

Open Access Policy

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.

Archiving

This journal utilizes the LOCKSS system to create a distributed archiving system among participating libraries and permits those libraries to create permanent archives of the journal for purposes of preservation and restoration. More...

Publication Ethics

Our ethics statement is based on the COPE Best Practices Guidelines for Journal Editors.

Publication decisions
Editors are responsible for deciding which articles submitted to a journal should be published. Editors may be guided by the policies of the journal's editorial board and limited by applicable legal requirements regarding defamation, copyright infringement, and plagiarism. The editor can consult with other editors or reviewers in making this decision.

Fair play
An editor at all times evaluates manuscripts based on their intellectual content without regard to the author's race, gender, sexual orientation, religious beliefs, ethnic origin, nationality, or political philosophy.

Confidentiality
Editors and any editorial staff should not disclose any information about a submitted manuscript to anyone other than the corresponding author, reviewers, potential reviewers, other editorial advisors, and the publisher, as appropriate.

Disclosure and conflicts of interest
Unpublished material disclosed in a submitted manuscript may not be used in the editor's own research without written permission from the author.

Reviewer Duties

Contribution to Editorial Decisions
Peer review helps editors in making editorial decisions and through editorial communication with authors can also help authors in improving papers.

Speed
Any selected referee who feels unqualified to review the research reported in a manuscript or knows that prompt review is not possible should notify the editor and seek permission from the review process.

Confidentiality
Any manuscript received for review must be treated as a confidential document. The document may not be shown or discussed with others except with the permission of the editor.

Objectivity Standards
The review must be conducted objectively. Personal criticism of the author is inappropriate. The referee must express his views clearly with supporting arguments.

Source Acknowledgment
Reviewers should identify relevant published work that has not been cited by the author. Any statement that an observation, derivation, or argument has been reported previously should be accompanied by relevant citations. A reviewer should also draw the editor's attention if there are substantial similarities or overlaps between the manuscript under consideration and other published papers of which they are personally aware.

Disclosure and Conflicts of Interest
Privileged information or ideas obtained through peer review must be kept confidential and not used for personal gain. Reviewers should not consider manuscripts that have conflicts of interest resulting from competitive, collaborative, or other relationships or connections with any authors, companies, or institutions associated with the paper.

Writer's Duties

Reporting standards
Authors of original research reports must present an accurate account of the work performed as well as an objective discussion of its significance. The underlying data must be presented accurately in the paper. A paper should contain enough detail and references to allow others to replicate the work. False or intentionally inaccurate statements are unethical and unacceptable behavior.

Originality and PlagiarismAuthors must ensure that they have written an entirely original work, and that if the author has used the work and/or words of others that the work has been appropriately cited or cited.

Multiple, Excessive, or Simultaneous Publication
An author should generally not publish manuscripts describing essentially the same research in more than one journal or primary publication. Submitting the same manuscript to more than one journal simultaneously is unethical and unacceptable publishing behavior.

Source Acknowledgment
Proper recognition of the work of others should always be given. Authors should cite publications that were influential in determining the nature of the work reported.

Paper Writing
Authorship should be limited to those who have made significant contributions to the conception, design, conduct, or interpretation of the research being reported. All parties who have made significant contributions must be listed as co-authors. If others have participated in certain substantive aspects of the research project, they should be acknowledged or listed as contributors.

The corresponding author must ensure that all appropriate co-authors and no inappropriate co-authors are included in the paper, and that all co-authors have seen and approved the final version of the paper and approved its submission for publication.

Disclosure and Conflicts of Interest
All authors must disclose in their manuscript any financial or other substantive conflicts of interest that might be construed to influence the results or interpretation of their manuscript. All sources of financial support for the project must be disclosed.

Fundamental errors in published work
When an author discovers significant errors or inaccuracies in his or her published work, the author has an obligation to immediately notify the journal editor or publisher and work with the editor to retract or correct the paper.

Digital Preservation

MU'ASYARAH strives for the constant availability of published articles. With this in mind, MU'ASYARAH content is constantly being archived and preserved, this is an article published in UIN Fatmawati Sukarno Bengkulu.

Plagiarsm Policy

• Plagiarism and self-plagiarism are not allowed;
• 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;
• An author should not in general publish manuscripts describing essentially the same research in more than one journal or primary publication. Submitting the same manuscript to more than one journal concurrently constitutes unethical publishing behavior and is unacceptable;
• Proper acknowledgment of the work of others must always be given. Authors should cite publications that have been influential in determining the nature of the reported work.

Working Process:

1. Editorial Team checking manuscript on offline and online database manually (checking proper citation and quotation);
2. Editorial Team checking manuscript by using Turnitin app. If it is found plagiarism indication (more than 30%), the board will reject the manuscript immediately.

Indexing

MU'ASYARAH Journal has been well indexed more easily found by researchers, academics, and professionals around the world. By being listed in leading databases and directories, your articles will reach a wider audience.

MU'ASYARAH Journal always strives to index all published articles effectively, so that they can be easily accessed, without technical barriers, by anyone looking for the information you offer. This ensures that your research is not only published, but also read and appreciated. The following sites have indexed Al-Bahtsu: Journal of Islamic Research and Education:

• Google Scholar
• GARUDA
• Dimensions
• Crossref
• BASE

Article Policy

MU'ASYARAH journal recognize the importance of the integrity and completeness of the scholarly record to researchers and librarians and attach the highest importance to maintaining trust in the authority of its electronic archive.

It is a general principle of scholarly communication that the editor of a learned journal is solely and independently responsible for deciding which articles submitted to the journal shall be published. In making this decision, the editor is guided by policies of the journal's editorial board and constrained by such legal requirements in force regarding libel, copyright infringement and plagiarism.  An outcome of this principle is the importance of the scholarly archive as a permanent, historical record of the transactions of scholarship. Articles that have been publishing shall remain extant, exact and unaltered as far as is possible. However, very occasionally circumstances may arise where an article is published that must later be retracted or even removed. Such actions must not be undertaken lightly and can only occur under exceptional circumstances. In all cases, our official archives will retain all article versions, including retracted or otherwise removed articles.

We designed this policy to address these concerns and to take into account current best practice in the scholarly and library communities.  As standards evolve and change, we will revisit this issue and welcome the input of scholarly and library communities. We believe these issues require international standards, and we will be active in lobbying various information bodies to establish international standards and best practices that the publishing and information industries can adopt. 

Article withdrawal

Only used for Articles in Press which represent early versions of articles and sometimes contain errors, or may have been accidentally submitted twice. Occasionally, but less frequently, the articles may represent infringements of professional, ethical codes, such as multiple submission, bogus claims of authorship, plagiarism, fraudulent use of data or the like. Articles that have been accepted for publication but have not been formally published, and then found to be accidental duplicates of other published article(s), or are considered to violate our journal ethics guidelines in the view of the editors will be withdrawn. Withdrawn means that the article content (HTML and PDF) is removed from the issue.

Article retraction

Article retraction is infringements of professional, ethical codes, such as multiple submission, bogus claims of authorship, plagiarism, fraudulent use of data or the like. Occasionally a retraction will be used to correct errors in submission or publication. The retraction of an article by its authors or editor has long been an occasional feature of the learning world. Standards for dealing with retractions have been developed by several library and scholarly bodies, and this best practice is adopted for article retraction by MU'ASYARAH journal:

• A retraction note titled "Retraction: [article title]" signed by the authors and/or the editor is published in the paginated part of a subsequent issue of the journal and listed in the contents list.
• In the electronic version, a link is made to the original article.
• The online article is preceded by a screen containing the retraction note. It is to this screen that the link resolves; the reader can then proceed to the article itself.
• The original article is retained unchanged save for a watermark on the .pdf indicating on each page that it is "retracted."
• The HTML version of the document is removed.

Article removal: legal limitations

In a minimal number of cases, it may be necessary to remove an article from the online database. The removal of the article will occur when the article is defamatory or infringes others' legal rights, or when the article is, or we have good reason to expect it will be, the subject of a court order, or where the article if acted upon pose a severe health risk. In these circumstances, while the metadata (Title and Authors) will be retained, the text will be replaced with a screen indicating the article has been removed for legal reasons.

Article replacement

In cases where the article, if acted upon, might pose a severe health risk, the authors of the original article may wish to retract the flawed original and replace it with a corrected version. In these circumstances, the procedures for retraction will be followed with the difference that the database retraction notice will publish a link to the corrected re-published article and a history of the document.

Review Guidelines

Peer Reviewer Responsibility

Peer reviewers are responsible for critiquing by reading and evaluating manuscripts in their area of expertise, then providing constructive advice and honest feedback to the authors of submitted articles. Peer reviewers discuss the strengths and weaknesses of articles, how to improve the strength and quality of papers, and evaluate the relevance and authenticity of the manuscript.

Before reviewing, please pay attention to the following:

• Is the article requested to be reviewed according to your expertise? If you receive a manuscript that covers a topic that does not fit your area of expertise, please notify the editor as soon as possible. Please recommend alternative reviews.
• Do you have time to review this paper? The review process must be completed within two weeks. If you agree and require a longer period, notify the editor as soon as possible, or suggest an alternative reviewer.

 Review Process

When reviewing the article, please consider the following:

• Title: does it describe the article clearly?
• Abstract: does it reflect the content of the article?
• Introduction: does it describe the accuracy of the things conveyed by the author and clearly state the issues under consideration? Typically, the introduction should summarize the relevant research context, and explain the findings of the study or other findings, if any, offered for discussion. This research should explain experiments, hypotheses, and methods.

 Article Content

The article you received for review, has previously been examined by the editorial team using Turnitin as a plagiarism checker and no more than 30% if previous research has been done by other authors, is it still eligible for publication?

• Is the article new, deep enough, and interesting to publish?
• Does it contribute to knowledge?
• Does the article comply with journal standards?
• Scope – Does the article fit the purpose and scope of the journal?

 Result:

This is where the author should explain the findings in his research. It should be arranged clearly and in a logical order. You need to consider whether the analysis has been carried out accordingly or not; The use of statistical tools is appropriate if this research is quantitative type.

Discussions and conclusions:

• Are the claims in this section supported by fair and reasonable results?
• Do the authors compare the results of the study with previous studies?
• Do the results of the research written in the article contradict the previous theory?
• What are the conclusions explaining how better scientific research is to act?

Method

• The method clearly written, so that other researchers can replicate experiments or studies with the same results;
• The method does not only explain the definition of the term but also explains how to conduct research;
• The method describes location, participants, research instruments, and data analysis;

Writing Style

• The author should be critical especially on a systematic review of the literature on issues, which are relevant to the field of study.
• Reviews should be focused on one topic.
• All exposure must be in English/Arabic and written in god's grammar and coherent.
• Easy to understand
• Interesting to read

 Final Review

• All review results submitted by reviewers are confidential
• If you would like to discuss the article with colleagues, please inform the editor
• Do not contact the author directly.
• Ethical issues:

Plagiarism: if you suspect the article is mostly plagiarism from other authors, please tell the editor in detail

- Fraud: It is very difficult to detect the category of fraud, but if you suspect the results in the article are incorrect, please notify the editor

Recommendations

After reviewing the article, please provide recommendations for authors and editors:

• Accept Submissions (with or without minor revisions): This article is well researched and written and on topics important to the field and journal, without significant gaps in methodology or analysis. The article may require a little extra on its theoretical or scientific background, or it may need to be edited, but it does not require significant additional research or restructuring.
• Revision required: The article is an important topic for the field and journal but requires some additional research or rewriting before it is worthy of publication. The review identifies some gaps in analysis, theoretical or scientific background, and/or methodology: or identifies the need for the article to undergo some reorganization or writing. However, reviewers are confident that the revision can be successfully completed under the supervision of the journal editor.
• Resubmit for Review: The article addresses topics that are important to the field and journal, but require significant additional research or rewriting before they are suitable for publication. The review identifies some substantial gaps in analysis, theoretical or scientific background, and/or methodology: or identifies the need for the article to undergo significant reorganization or rewrite. Reviewers feel that these necessary revisions are significant enough that the article should be resubmitted for additional rounds of review.
• Reject: The article addresses topics with limited relevance to fields and journals, and/or requires significant additional research or rewriting before they are eligible for publication. In the latter case, the review identifies several significant gaps in the analysis, theoretical or scientific background, and/or methodology: and/or identifies the need for the article to undergo significant reorganization or rewrite. Reviewers have little confidence that such revisions can be successfully completed within a reasonable time frame.

Complete the "Review" before the due date to the editorial office. Your recommendations for the article will be considered when the editor makes the final decision and your honest feedback is highly appreciated.

When you write a comment, please show you a section of the comment that is only intended for the editor and a part that can be returned to the author.

Feel free to contact the editorial office if there are any questions or problems you may encounter.

Deposit Policy

The pre-print, post-print, and publisher's version/PDF can be archived under the following conditions.

As soon as the MU'ASYARAH has published an article, the version of the article that has been submitted, accepted for publication, and the printed version can be used for a variety of scholarly or academic purposes under Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0).

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