Aims and Scope

Aim

Hadith and Social Culture Studies is an international peer-reviewed journal dedicated to advancing rigorous scholarship on Hadith and its social and cultural dimensions. The journal provides a platform for theoretically grounded, methodologically sound, and critically engaged research that situates Hadith as a dynamic discourse within diverse social, cultural, political, and digital contexts.

The journal welcomes original research focusing on the reception, representation, circulation, appropriation, negotiation, and transformation of Hadith within specific communities and settings. It gives particular emphasis on the processes through which Hadith attains meaning and social significance, including its incorporation into practices, identities, institutions, traditions, and public discourses.

HSCS aims to foster interdisciplinary engagement and comparative scholarship, bringing Hadith studies into dialogue with sociology, anthropology, cultural studies, media studies, digital humanities, gender studies, religious studies, and related fields. It seeks to illuminate the changing configurations of Hadith within Muslim social and cultural life across different times, places, and communities.
Scope

The journal publishes original research articles on, but not limited to, the following areas:

  • Hadith and Social Culture.
  • Hadith Reception and Meaning-Making.
  • Living Hadith and Everyday Religious Practices.
  • Hadith, Identity, and Community.
  • Hadith, Politics, and Authority.
  • Hadith, Media, and Digital Culture.
  • Hadith and Local Traditions.
  • Hadith, Memory, History, and Cultural Heritage.
  • Hadith and Contemporary Social Change.
  • Comparative and Interdisciplinary Hadith Studies.