The fourth issue of the Ijtihad Journal for Islamic and Arabic Studies (English Edition) presents an editorial, four scholarly articles, two book reviews, and an English translation of a previously published Arabic article. The editorial outlines the journal’s methodological vision, which combines an internal approach to Islam with critical engagement with Western Orientalist and epistemological frameworks. It also highlights the journal’s role in fostering a new generation of researchers bridging Islamic intellectual traditions and Western academic scholarship, as well as its recent institutional and linguistic expansion. The articles address diverse themes, including jihadist hermeneutics through the reception of Ibn Taymiyya by Ayman al-Ẓawāhirī, Fazlur Rahman’s modernist reformist thought, the religious and cultural identity of Moroccan migrant minors in Spain, and a comparative study of Islamic and Christian mysticism in the works of al-Ghazzālī and Francis of Assisi. The issue further includes reviews of recent works on the Ahmadiyya movement and migrant identity, alongside a translated study on Islamic jurisprudence in the European context.