About the Journal

About the Journal

The name AL-KASB reflects the concept of lawful earning and productive economic effort. The journal promotes rigorous scholarship that connects contemporary economic and business analysis with Islamic ethical principles, fiqh al-mu‘āmalāt, and relevant institutional and regulatory contexts.

أَنْفِقُوا مِنْ طَيِّبَاتِ مَا كَسَبْتُمْ

“…spend from the good things you have earned…” (Qur'an 2:267)

Focus and Scope

AL-KASB welcomes manuscripts in the following areas:

• Islamic economics: theory, thought, and public policy.
• Islamic finance and banking, Islamic capital markets, and takaful.
• Islamic social finance: zakat, infaq, sadaqah, and waqf.
• Islamic management and marketing.
• Islamic human resource management and organizational behavior.
• Halal industry, creative economy, and Muslim entrepreneurship.
• Fiqh al-mu‘āmalāt and Islamic economic law.
• Islamic accounting and governance of Islamic financial institutions.

Studies on the management of educational institutions should be directed to QAWIY AMIN.

Types of Manuscripts

• Empirical research articles using quantitative, econometric, SEM, panel-data, or qualitative approaches.
• Conceptual articles developing Islamic economic or business models from primary sources and relevant theory.
• Case studies of Islamic banks, BMTs, zakat or waqf institutions, halal businesses, and MSMEs.
• Systematic, bibliometric, or other structured review articles.

Publication Frequency

AL-KASB is published three times a year, in February, June, and October.

Editor in Chief

Shihata Al fajr Adhi imulloh, S.M.

Publisher

Santri Cendekiawan Academic Press
Managed through Cendekia Journal Hub (CJH)

Editorial Policies

Section Policies

All submissions must fall within the journal's focus and scope and comply with the Author Guidelines and article template. Manuscripts must be original, academically accountable, not previously published, and not under consideration by another journal.

The editorial team conducts an initial screening for scope, structure, methodological suitability, data transparency, technical format, and similarity. Manuscripts may be returned before external review if they are outside scope, incomplete, technically unsuitable, or clearly below the journal's minimum scholarly standard.

Peer Review Process

Manuscripts that pass editorial screening are sent to at least two reviewers with relevant expertise for peer review. Reviewers assess originality, theoretical contribution, methodological rigor, quality of data and analysis, relevance to Islamic economics and business, engagement with relevant regulations and primary Islamic sources where applicable, and suitability for publication.

Editorial decisions may be: accepted, minor revision, major revision, or rejected. Revised manuscripts are normally expected within two weeks unless another deadline is stated by the editor.

Open Access Policy

AL-KASB provides immediate open access to its published content in order to support wider dissemination of scholarship in Islamic economics and business. Readers may access published articles without subscription charges.

Reuse of published content is governed by the journal's Creative Commons license and requires proper attribution and compliance with the applicable license terms.

Publication Ethics

AL-KASB follows recognized scholarly publishing ethics consistent with the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE).

The journal does not tolerate plagiarism, duplicate publication, fabrication or manipulation of data, selective model or sample choice designed to produce significant results without transparent reporting, inappropriate authorship, or citation manipulation.

Manuscripts derived from theses or dissertations are permitted when rewritten as journal articles and the origin of the work is transparently acknowledged.

Plagiarism and Similarity Policy

All submitted manuscripts are subject to similarity screening. Similarity must be below 20%, excluding references and properly quoted material. Editors may reject a manuscript for inappropriate paraphrasing, self-plagiarism, unattributed reuse, duplicate publication, fabricated references, or other misuse of sources even when the numerical score is below the threshold.

Article Submission Charges

AL-KASB does not charge an article submission fee or peer-review fee. Article submission charge: IDR 0.

Article Processing Charges (APCs)

An Article Processing Charge (APC) of IDR 75,000–100,000 is payable only after a manuscript has been formally accepted for publication. The exact amount within this range is set by the editorial board upon acceptance. No payment guarantees acceptance. Editorial and peer-review decisions are independent of payment.

Copyright and Licensing

Authors retain copyright in their published articles and grant AL-KASB the right of first publication. Articles are published under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License (CC BY-SA 4.0).

Digital Archiving

AL-KASB is committed to the long-term preservation and accessibility of its published content.

Data, Reproducibility, and Generative AI Policy

Research data and reproducibility. Quantitative authors are encouraged to provide datasets and analysis syntax or code (for example EViews, Stata, R, or SmartPLS) as supplementary files or through a repository link so that reported results can be checked where appropriate.

Generative AI

• AI may assist with language or translation under meaningful human supervision.
• AI cannot be listed as an author.
• AI must not be used to fabricate data, estimation results, interview quotations, or bibliographic references.
• Material AI use must be disclosed in the Author Statement, including the tool, version where relevant, and the part assisted.

Corrections, Retractions, and Editorial Notices

Significant errors identified after publication may be addressed through a correction, clarification, expression of concern, or retraction. Retraction may be considered for plagiarism, fabricated or manipulated data, duplicate publication, serious authorship misconduct, citation manipulation, or findings shown to be unreliable.