‘Wi-Fi Fatwa‘
“According to the fatwa, internet service agreements fall under contracts governing the use of services, making subscribers legally and religiously bound by their terms.”
Ayatollah Khamenei’s Funeral (updated)
There has been extensive coverage of the Ayatollah’s funeral across multiple channels. It has been interesting to see how embedded it has become within Iran’s media system, especially as...
Islamic Responses to COVID-19
I organised a lockdown conference: ‘Islamic Responses to COVID-19: Authority and Religiosity in #Muslim Communities and Digital Worlds‘. There were significant contributions from international scholars exploring aspects of digital...
Grand Imam on AI
Egypt Today, Al-Azhar Grand Imam: AI without ethical safeguards threatens values, 28 Jun 2026. “Prof. Dr. Ahmad El-Tayyeb, Grand Imam of Al-Azhar, Egypt’s top Islamic Sunni institute, warned that...
AI and Islamic Jurisprudence
Looks interesting (haven’t read it yet). Free to download too. Muhammed Ameen Fazal, AI and Islamic Jurisprudence: Re-reading Contemporary Fatwās forEthical Possibilities in Techno-Social Forms of Life, Islamic Studies...
Recent Research on AI, CIEs and Religion
New(-sh), noted, and free to download: Lohlker, Rüdiger, and Soleh Hasan Wahid. 2026. “The Transformation of Islamic Religious Authority” Religions 17, no. 4: 493. https://doi.org/10.3390/rel17040493 “The transformation of religious authority in...
Malaysian ‘fringe movements‘
“Mohd Faizal Musa, a senior visiting fellow at the ISEAS – Yusof Ishak Institute, said religious authorities were still too dependent on scholars trained narrowly in scripture, rather than...
FatwaTok
Not the best timing for a new product launch. Here are the details on FatwaTok: I missed the FatwaTok launch from #Qatar (inbetween everything else)...