Focus and Scope
Priangan: Journal of Islamic Sundanese Culture is a peer-reviewed, open-access journal dedicated to the history of Islamic civilization in Sundanese society. It examines how Islam has shaped, and been shaped by, Sundanese cultural, intellectual, and social life, from the earliest periods of Islamization to the contemporary era. This focus distinguishes Priangan from broader Islamic studies journals and from general Sundanese cultural studies journals. It is a scholarly venue for the historical encounter between Islam and Sundanese civilization in the Priangan region of West Java and beyond.
The journal publishes original research articles in the following areas:
- Islamization and socio-religious transformation in Tatar Sunda. The processes, actors, and dynamics of Islamic dissemination and their impact on the social, political, economic, legal, and cultural structures of Sundanese society. This includes the dynamics of economy and enterprise and the interplay between state law and customary law across historical periods.
- Sundanese Islamic intellectual traditions. Ulama networks, pesantren traditions, manuscript heritage, education, and the production and transmission of religious knowledge in the Sundanese world.
- Cultural expressions of Islamic Sundanese civilization. Local rituals, ceremonial practices, oral traditions, language, local wisdom, architectural heritage, and performing arts that reflect the acculturation of Islam and Sundanese culture.
- Historiography and methodology. Critical and reflective analyses of sources, approaches, and narratives in the writing of Sundanese Islamic history.
Priangan is grounded in the discipline of history but embraces a multidisciplinary approach. Articles drawing on philology, anthropology, sociology, art history, cultural studies, literary studies, and Islamic studies are welcome, provided they engage substantively with the historical dimensions of Islamic Sundanese civilization. Historical, qualitative, comparative, philological, and ethnographic methods are all accepted, and methodological innovation is encouraged.
Contributions from scholars at national and international institutions are welcome. The primary criterion for publication is the significance of an article's contribution to the scholarly understanding of Islamic civilization in Sundanese society and its relevance to broader academic discourse on Islamic history and cultural studies in Southeast Asia.
