About the Journal

Islamic Digital Religion and Intelligent Media is a peer-reviewed academic journal that advances interdisciplinary and contextually grounded research on how Islamic religious knowledge, authority, and practice are produced, mediated, automated, governed, and contested across digital platforms and intelligent media, in both Muslim-majority and Muslim-minority societies. The journal publishes innovative and comparative studies connecting digital da'wah, mediated religious authority, artificial intelligence, algorithmic governance, digital religious publics, and media ethics with real-world religious and social transformation. It positions intelligent and algorithmic media as a transformative yet contested force that reshapes religious authority, widens access to religious knowledge, informs everyday practice, and raises new questions of trust, integrity, and human dignity, across mosques, madrasas, pesantren, universities, religious institutions, and online communities in the Muslim world and the wider Global South.

The journal occupies a distinct place in a growing field. Most existing venues on religion and digital media are either multi-faith in orientation, centred on secular media industries and diasporic news, or focused on the computational analysis of historical text corpora. This journal instead places contemporary Muslim experience at its centre and gives sustained attention to intelligent and algorithmic media, from recommendation systems and generative content to machine-mediated religious authority. Its purpose is to build a communication and media studies of Muslim digital religion that speaks to international scholarship rather than to a single national tradition.

The journal is published [June and December] by [PT. Barca]. All articles are open access under a [CC BY-SA 4.0 / CC BY 4.0] licence and are freely available to read, download, and share with proper attribution. The journal charges no submission fee and no article processing charge. It operates on a diamond open-access model, which means publishing is free for authors and reading is free for the public. Editorial decisions rest solely on the scholarly quality of a manuscript and its fit with the scope, and are never influenced by an author's ability to pay.

Each submission undergoes a double-blind peer review. At least two independent reviewers assess every manuscript for originality, methodological soundness, theoretical contribution, and fit with the scope. The editorial board draws on scholars from several countries and disciplines so that evaluation is fair and internationally informed.

The language of publication is English. Every manuscript must include an English abstract and keywords, and all references must appear in Roman script to support international readability and indexing.

The journal upholds recognised standards of publication ethics and follows the principles of the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE). It maintains a strict policy against plagiarism, data fabrication, citation fabrication, and any undisclosed use of generative tools that would compromise scholarly integrity. Authors, reviewers, and editors are expected to observe these standards at every stage of the publishing process.