1. Journal Focus

SELI focuses on the development of scholarly knowledge in sharia economic law by encouraging research that integrates Islamic jurisprudence, legal analysis, economic regulation, institutional governance, public policy, and contemporary innovation. The journal gives priority to manuscripts that demonstrate originality, theoretical relevance, methodological clarity, ethical compliance, and practical contribution to academic scholarship, legal practice, public policy, or institutional development.

The journal welcomes interdisciplinary studies that connect Islamic legal principles with modern economic, financial, technological, social, and governance challenges. Submitted manuscripts should present a clear research problem, strong literature foundation, appropriate methodology or legal reasoning, and meaningful implications for sharia economic law and related disciplines.

2. Scope of Publication

3. Specific Topics Covered

• Islamic banking law and financial regulation
• Sharia economic dispute resolution
• Islamic contract law and commercial transactions
• Sharia compliance and institutional governance
• Halal product assurance and certification law
• Halal supply chain regulation and consumer protection
• Islamic capital market law and sukuk regulation
• Takaful law and Islamic insurance governance
• Zakat, waqf, sadaqah, and Islamic social finance
• Islamic microfinance and financial inclusion
• Islamic corporate law and business ethics
• Islamic entrepreneurship and legal innovation
• Islamic wealth management and estate planning
• Islamic inheritance and financial rights
• Sharia economic policy and public regulation
• Islamic legal maxims in economic transactions
• Islamic digital economy and financial technology
• Legal issues in Islamic crowdfunding
• Blockchain, smart contracts, and sharia compliance
• Islamic consumer protection law
• Environmental, social, and governance issues in Islamic economics
• Islamic business ethics and corporate responsibility
• Anti-money laundering and Islamic financial compliance
• Comparative Islamic and conventional legal systems
• International trade and sharia economic regulation
• Contemporary fatwa studies in Islamic economics

4. Types of Manuscripts Accepted

5. Research Approaches

• Doctrinal legal research and normative juridical analysis.
• Empirical legal research and socio-legal studies.
• Qualitative research, including interviews, case studies, fieldwork, and document analysis.
• Quantitative research, including survey-based, econometric, and statistical analysis.
• Mixed-method research combining legal, empirical, and social science approaches.
• Comparative research across legal systems, institutions, countries, or regulatory models.
• Policy analysis, regulatory evaluation, and institutional assessment.
• Bibliometric and systematic review related to Islamic law, Islamic economics, and sharia finance.

6. JEL Classification

To support international indexing, metadata consistency, and subject classification, SELI encourages authors to include relevant Journal of Economic Literature (JEL) Classification Codes where appropriate. Recommended JEL classifications for SELI include:

7. Publication Ethics, COPE Alignment, and AI Transparency

SELI is committed to responsible scholarly publishing and applies ethical principles aligned with the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE). All manuscripts must demonstrate originality, proper citation, transparent authorship, conflict of interest disclosure, and ethical research practice.

If authors use AI tools for language polishing, translation, grammar improvement, formatting, or manuscript support, the use must be declared transparently. AI must not be used to create fake data, fabricated references, false citations, unsupported theories, manipulated results, or misleading academic claims. The final responsibility for all manuscript content remains fully with the author(s).

8. Out-of-Scope Manuscripts

• Manuscripts unrelated to sharia economic law, Islamic economics, Islamic finance, halal regulation, or legal-economic studies.
• Purely religious essays without legal, economic, policy, institutional, or scholarly analysis.
• General business or management articles without a clear Islamic economic law or sharia governance dimension.
• Manuscripts with unclear methodology, weak theoretical foundation, or limited scholarly contribution.
• Manuscripts containing plagiarism, fabricated data, fake references, false citations, or unsupported claims.
• Manuscripts generated substantially by AI without verification, originality, and proper declaration.

9. Journal Classification