About the Journal

The Journal of Kajian Islam dan Turath Antara-Bidang (KITAB) established in 2023, is a biannual publication managed by the Faculty of Islamic Studies (FIS) and published by Penerbit UMS. The objectives are to encourage publication and knowledge sharing and align with Islamic research principles.

KITAB serves as an international platform for the dissemination of high-quality research on Islam, Islamic intellectual traditions, Muslim societies, and interdisciplinary studies relevant to contemporary challenges and opportunities facing Muslim communities worldwide. The journal seeks to promote meaningful engagement between classical Islamic scholarship (turath) and contemporary academic inquiry by encouraging rigorous, innovative, and socially relevant research.

One of the distinctive features of KITAB is its commitment to preserving, documenting, and advancing Islamic intellectual heritage through the publication of studies on manuscripts, archival materials, scholarly traditions, linguistic resources, and other forms of knowledge transmission. In addition to conventional research and review articles, the journal welcomes Scholarly Resource Articles that introduce and document valuable research resources such as manuscript catalogues, corpora, bibliographic databases, archival inventories, digital collections, and other scholarly infrastructures that support future research.

While grounded in Islamic studies, KITAB actively encourages interdisciplinary scholarship that draws upon the humanities, social sciences, education, law, economics, technology, environmental studies, health sciences, and digital humanities, provided that the relevance to Islam, Muslim societies, or Islamic intellectual traditions is clearly demonstrated.

The journal places particular emphasis on research concerning Southeast Asia and the broader Muslim world, recognising the region's rich intellectual, cultural, historical, and linguistic contributions to global Islamic civilisation. Through this focus, KITAB aims to strengthen scholarly dialogue, foster knowledge exchange across disciplines and regions, and contribute to the continued development of Islamic and interdisciplinary studies at both regional and international levels.