The Review of Islamic Studies (RIS) publishes scholarly articles that are of general significance to the islamic studies community and that come from a wide range of areas of islamic research and related disciplines. RIS aims to make major programmatic research and new findings of broad importance widely accessible. It is published three times per year. RIS encourages submissions of two types of research articles—research papers, and review articles relevant to islamic studies from any discipline, such as  islamic education, islamic economy, islamic law (fiqh), tasawuf, theology. Technical comments may also be submitted.

Twice published in year is January and July.