Critical Islamicate Humanities: Journal of Literary and Cultural Studies is an international, peer-reviewed, open-access academic journal dedicated to the critical and interdisciplinary study of literature, culture, and knowledge production in Islamicate societies. Positioned at the intersection of literary studies, cultural studies, critical humanities, and critical theory, the journal provides a platform for examining power, representation, discourse, aesthetics, and cultural practices across historical and contemporary contexts.

The journal adopts the term Islamicate, following Marshall G. S. Hodgson, to emphasize the cultural, literary, artistic, historical, and intellectual formations associated with Muslim societies beyond the boundaries of religion alone. Unlike Islamic, which primarily denotes religious doctrines and normative traditions, Islamicate foregrounds the broader civilizational processes through which meanings, identities, texts, media, and social practices are produced, circulated, negotiated, and contested. Accordingly, the journal employs the term Humanities rather than Islamic Studies to affirm its commitment to critical, interpretive, and interdisciplinary scholarship. While engaging with Islamic Studies, the journal is primarily situated within literary and cultural studies, postcolonial and decolonial thought, media studies, gender studies, and related humanities disciplines.

The journal welcomes original research articles, theoretical essays, and critical reviews that advance conceptual, methodological, or theoretical debates on literature, culture, language, history, memory, heritage, visual arts, digital culture, translation, and other humanities fields within Islamicate contexts. It prioritizes theory-driven and analytically rigorous manuscripts over descriptive, apologetic, or purely normative studies. Rather than treating Islamicate societies merely as objects of investigation, the journal seeks to position them as productive sites of knowledge and theory, contributing new perspectives that enrich global literary and cultural studies beyond Eurocentric paradigms.

Critical Islamicate Humanities: Journal of Literary and Cultural Studies is an open-access journal published by Kaifama Press, Indonesia. The journal is licensed under an Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International (CC BY-NC 4.0).