This issue contains 4 articles and 3 queries - scholarly writing, reader questions answered, and a continued record of the journal's ongoing concerns.
A systematic overview of the twin pillars of hadith evaluation — chain criticism and textual criticism — and how modern scholarship has renewed the case for matn-centred analysis.
The Qur'anic prescription for ṣalāh — its fixed times, bodily postures, and demand for inner presence — as a structured counterweight to the perpetual, shallow alertness of the digital age.
Is the gate of ijtihād truly closed? An examination of the historical myth, the continuing practice of independent legal reasoning, and its urgency for Muslim communities navigating new realities.
The Qur'an's invitation to reason — ʿaql — is not a supplement to revelation but intrinsic to it. A rereading of the ulū al-albāb passages and their implications for Islamic intellectual culture.
