The Indonesian Journal of Islamic Law (IJIL) invites scholars, researchers, and practitioners to contribute to a thematic issue entitled “After Decolonisation: Islamic Law in Motion—Ethics, Governance, and Normative Futures.” This issue seeks to advance theoretically informed and empirically grounded discussions on how Islamic law is rearticulated, practiced, and transformed in the aftermath of decolonial critique across Muslim societies, particularly in Southeast Asia and the wider Global South.

Moving beyond the phase of deconstructing colonial legacies, this thematic issue focuses on Islamic law as a dynamic and evolving normative system shaped by ethical reasoning, governance practices, and future-oriented legal imagination. In diverse socio-political contexts, Islamic law operates within complex constellations of state institutions, religious authorities, community norms, and transnational discourses. These interactions reveal Islamic law not as a fixed doctrinal corpus, but as a process in motion—continuously negotiating meaning, legitimacy, and moral authority in response to contemporary social challenges.

This issue encourages contributions that explore how Islamic legal reasoning engages with questions of ethics, justice, governance, and public responsibility, including but not limited to family law, gender relations, economic regulation, human rights, and social welfare. Particular attention is given to studies that examine how new forms of normativity and legal imagination emerge after decolonisation, and how Islamic law contributes to shaping normative futures beyond the binaries of tradition versus modernity or religion versus the state.

IJIL particularly welcomes interdisciplinary approaches employing socio-legal analysis, qualitative fieldwork, ethnography, legal anthropology, comparative legal study, and critical jurisprudence. By centering perspectives from Muslim societies of the Global South, this thematic issue aims to reposition Islamic law as an active source of ethical and legal thought, capable of offering original contributions to global debates on normativity, governance, and social transformation.