MAPPING SOCIAL JUSTICE IN ISLAMIC ECONOMICS

A BIBLIOMETRIC ANALYSIS AND ASWAJA-INFORMED INTERPRETATION

Abstract

This study maps the thematic structure of research on social justice in Islamic economics and interprets the resulting patterns through an Aswaja-informed framework. The analysis draws on VOSviewer maps and a keyword-frequency table preserved in the source manuscript, which reports that the data were retrieved from Google Scholar using Publish or Perish. Neither the bibliographic export nor the retrieval date, final document count, or screening log was included in the materials available for analysis; these details were therefore not reconstructed speculatively and are reported as limitations to reproducibility. Accordingly, the auditable analysis is limited to keyword co-occurrence mapping, density visualisation, and temporal overlay analysis. Islamic economics and epistemology occupy the centre of the network, whereas social justice, Islamic finance, Islamic ethics, development, the Sustainable Development Goals, religion, and social responsibility function as bridging themes. Five interpretative clusters were identified: epistemological foundations; justice and decoloniality; Islamic financial institutions; development and welfare; and religious-normative foundations. Substantively, these patterns resonate with i‘tidal, tawazun, tawassut, tasamuh, and ta‘awun, although Aswaja terminology does not appear consistently in the metadata. The study distinguishes bibliometric evidence from normative interpretation and proposes a research agenda linking maqasid al-shariah, redistribution, Islamic social finance, digital literacy, and impact evaluation.