Jurnal Ilmiah Al-Syir'ah mainly focuses on Islamic Law, Family Law, Muamalah (Islamic Economic Law), and Law and society with various approaches of normative, philosophy, history, sociology, anthropology, theology, psychology, economics and is intended to communicate the original researches and current issues on the subject. Detailed scopes of articles accepted for submission to Jurnal Ilmiah Al-Syir'ah are:
- Islamic family law
- Islamic criminal law
- Islamic political law
- Islamic economic law
- Islamic astronomy (Falak studies)
- Islamic Jurisprudence (Fiqh)
- Islamic legal methodology (Usul al-Fiqh)
- Islamic law as national law
- Law in Modern Muslim World (Legislation/Codification, Statutes, Regulations, Legal Professions, and Institutions)
- Comparative Law, Law & Religion, or Law & Society which intersects with Islamic Law
- Islamic law in the contemporary world
Publishes 5 articles per issue in 2014 and 2018 starts publishing 6 articles in each edition. All articles are only based on research. On Volume 17 Issue 1 June 2020 published 7 articles.