ILMU USHULUDDIN

This issue, Volume 12 No. 1 (July) 2025 is still in progress. Once all articles are finished, it will be officially launched on 31 October 2025 or before.

This issue presents a collection of recent studies that interweave the discourse of ʿIlm al-Uṣūl al-Dīn with the challenges of social, cultural, and technological change. It begins with an exploration of the transformation of the Kaili tribe’s rituals after Islamization that revealing the dynamics between local customs and Islamic values, followed by an inquiry into the pre-Adam cosmology in Al-Mīzān by ʿAllāmah Ṭabāṭabā’ī, and concludes with a study on Islamic thought and its relevance to technology and human resource management. Each article is interconnected by a common thread: how classical uṣūl al-dīn traditions, such as Qur’anic exegesis, theology, and Islamic philosophy, continue to be revitalized and reflected upon within contemporary contexts involving culture, technology, and social transformation. Thus, this edition not only offers textual and historical analyses but also emphasizes how the discipline of uṣūl al-dīn remains relevant today: how Islamic values integrate into local cultural practices, how classical philosophical thought engages with modern cosmological questions, and how Islamic scholarship responds to technological revolutions in the fields of management and human resources. This issue reaffirms that the study of uṣūl al-dīn does not end with texts or history. It continues to evolve as a dynamic medium for cross-disciplinary understanding responsive to the transformations of our time.