Aim and Scope

Overview

AFRIDINAR is a peer-reviewed, open-access journal dedicated exclusively to the study of Islamic economics and finance across Africa, at every scale, from grassroots Islamic microfinance to national Islamic banking policy and sovereign sukuk issuance. AFRIDINAR is the sole journal within the AfroStrategy portfolio covering Islamic economics and finance; no other journal in the portfolio treats Islamic financial instruments or theory as a subject in its own right, regardless of the scale at which they operate.

Published under the AfroStrategy platform, AFRIDINAR is open access, removing cost as a barrier for researchers, regulators, and practitioners working in and studying Islamic finance across the continent.

Thematic Coverage

  • Islamic banking, institutions, products, governance, and comparative performance against conventional banking
  • Sukuk (Islamic bonds), structuring, issuance, sovereign and corporate sukuk markets, and cross-border sukuk activity
  • Islamic monetary theory and macroeconomic policy
  • Sharia governance, compliance, and standard-setting (including comparative approaches across jurisdictions)
  • Islamic social finance, zakat, waqf, and sadaqah as instruments of development finance
  • Islamic microfinance and grassroots Islamic financial inclusion, at any scale
  • Halal industry value chains, where the analysis is financial or economic rather than legal or religious
  • Comparative Islamic and conventional financial performance and risk
  • Islamic fintech and the digitization of Sharia-compliant financial services
  • Risk management, prudential regulation, and financial stability within Islamic financial institutions

Scope Boundaries

AFRIDINAR holds exclusive ownership of Islamic economics and finance as a subject, at every scale. Submissions on informal, non-Islamic financial activity are more appropriately suited to Matabisi. Submissions on conventional, non-Islamic macroeconomics, finance, or enterprise economics are more appropriately suited to AFRIFIN. Submissions offering legal or doctrinal analysis of Islamic commercial law (fiqh al-mu’amalat), as opposed to economic or financial analysis of the same instruments, are more appropriately suited to AFRILEX. Submissions on Islam as religion or theology, without an economic or financial dimension, are more appropriately suited to AFRIFAITH. Manuscripts falling under any of these boundaries may be redirected accordingly during initial editorial screening.

Article Types

  • Original empirical research articles
  • Theoretical and conceptual papers
  • Case studies of Islamic financial institutions, instruments, or markets
  • Systematic and critical literature reviews and bibliometric studies
  • Book reviews and expert commentaries

Audience

AFRIDINAR is written for and read by Islamic economics and finance researchers, central bank and financial-regulatory economists, Sharia scholars with an economic or financial focus, practitioners and policymakers connected to Islamic development finance institutions, and the wider global research community working on Islamic finance and African development.