Tea Storm
Hadi Azmi, SCMP, Indonesians, Malaysians unite in outrage over insult of tea seller by Java cleric, 6 Dec 2024 “The video, which went viral in both countries in late...
Fatwa Overload?
My work has focused on the issue of ‘fatwa overload‘ (or frequent questions on ‘smaller‘ topics) for many years. This video neatly encapsulates the issues and frustrations surrounding it....
New and noted: Islamic preachers in contemporary Indonesia
Raya, M.K.F. Digital Islam: new space for authority and religious commodification among Islamic preachers in contemporary Indonesia. Cont Islam (2024). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11562-024-00570-z From the abstract: “This study found that digital media platforms...
Millennial Muslims and Use of Cyber-Islam
Cabrera Cusi, M. R., & Berghout, A. . (2023). Millennial Muslims and Use of Cyber-Islam: A Case Study of Bilal Philips and Mufti Menk on Twitter and their Impacts. Journal...
Islamic Religious Authority in a Modern Age
New and noted: Shaheen Amid Whyte, Islamic Religious Authority in a Modern Age: Australian and Global Perspectives (Palgrave Macmillan 2024). Looks interesting. It’s just come out, so I haven’t...
Reading List: Making Islam Work
I’ll be catching up with this book soon: it looks really interesting, and it is Open Access. Thijl Sunier, (2023). Making Islam Work. Leiden: Brill. https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004684928
AI in Islam
Изкуственият интелект на Аллах (продължение) Here’s the second part of an interesting article by Atanas Shinikov on aspects of artificial intelligence in Islam, which also summarises some key points...
AI and Fatwas
Khaleej TImes, UAE minister proposes fatwa on how AI, robots should be used to serve people, 23 Oct 2023 “In a world that is changing by the minute, there...
Robot Fatwas
Vishwam Sankaran, Independent, Iranian officials mulling over use of AI to issue fatwas, 27 Sep 2023. Based on FT.com, ‘Robots can help issue a fatwa’: Iran’s clerics look to...