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China,, Uighurs,

Uighur Issues

NEW @UyghurProject report 🗒️ The Complicity of Heritage: Cultural Heritage & Genocide in the Uyghur Region—we examine 👇🏽 ➡️ China’s “cultural cleansing” of Uyghurs➡️ How China uses heritage for...

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Digital MENA, Research

Digital Middle East

Abdellah Iftahy, Tom Isherwood, Chiara Marcati, and Karan Soni, McKinsey & Company, Digital consumers in the Middle East: Rising adoption and opportunity, 9 Jan 2023 “The region’s consumers have...

Tue 17 Jumada Al Akhira 1444AH 10-1-2023AD
Books, Gary R. Bunt, Research

Wiley Blackwell Companion to Islamic Spirituality

The Wiley Blackwell Companion to Islamic Spirituality has just been published. Congratulations to the editors Bruce B. Lawrence and Vincent J. Cornell for bringing this volume (and team of...

Mon 16 Safar 1444AH 12-9-2022AD
Academia, Gary R. Bunt, Research

Edinburgh University, Experts assess digital impact on Muslim lives Here’s a press release from Edinburgh University on the CHANSE-funded Digital Islam across Europe project. I’m a Co-Investigator on this...

Thu 12 Safar 1444AH 8-9-2022AD
Research

Scholar from a Garrison Society

Congratulations to my student Shahajada Musa on his M.Res. Islamic Studies award. His thesis is entitled ‘The Emergence of a Scholar from a Garrison Society: A contextual analysis of...

Sat 22 Muharram 1444AH 20-8-2022AD
Research

Digital humanities in Islamic Studies

Syaifudin Zuhr; Mahmud Syaltout Syahidulhaqq; Sunarwoto, Munirul Ikhwan; DNajib Kailani; Bimantoro; Alfon Satria, Muhammad Zulkarnain, Laporan Penelitian, Digital Humanities Dan Big Data Dalam Studi Islam, Pusat Studi Mukaddima. Research...

Wed 14 Dhul Hijjah 1443AH 13-7-2022AD
Radicalisation, Research

DNS and Radicalisation

Arthur Bradley & Deeba Shadnia, Examining Online Migration To Terrorist And Violent Extremist-Owned Domains (Tech Against Terrorism, GWU Program on Extremism Abstract: “This paper analyzes the use of terrorist...

Thu 1 Dhul Hijjah 1443AH 30-6-2022AD
Conferences, COVID-19, Gary R. Bunt, Research

‘Islamic Responses to COVID-19’

Hard to believe that this happened a year ago … The one-day UWTSD online conference on ‘Islamic Responses to COVID-19: Authority and Religiosity in #Muslim Communities and Digital Worlds’....

Wed 2 Dhul Qidah 1443AH 1-6-2022AD
Books, Gary R. Bunt

‘Cyber Muslims’ book

The ‘Cyber Muslims’ book is out now. My chapter is entitled ‘The Net Imam Effect’. Robert Rozehnal (editor), Cyber Muslims: Mapping Islamic Digital Media in the Internet Age. Bloomsbury...

Tue 9 Shawwal 1443AH 10-5-2022AD
'Jihad', Academia, Hayat Tahrir al-Sham

Hayat Tahrir al-Sham

Aaron Y. Zelin, The Age of Political Jihadism: A Study of Hayat Tahrir al-Sham, Washington Institute for Near East Policy “In this thought-provoking Policy Focus, illustrated with photographs of...

Islamic Algorithms – book cover

Gary R. Bunt, Islamic Algorithms: Online Influence in the Muslim Metaverse (London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2024)

Explore the book

Paperback, hardback and ebook editions are available now.

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“Gary Bunt’s Islamic Algorithms explores the dynamic relationship between technology shifts and the evolving engagement of Muslims online. Bunt emphasises the unchanging core of Islam, adapting its expression to developing technology. A testament to Bunt’s brilliance in the ever-changing Cyber Islamic Environments, this is a must-read for those interested in Islamic studies, digital Islam and Muslim metaverses.” ―Eva Nisa, Senior Lecturer of Anthropology, The Australian National University, Australia

“A timely and insightful exploration, the book offers a concise yet comprehensive glimpse into the evolving landscape of Cyber Islamic Environments. From the serene halls of Jakarta’s Istiqlal Mosque to the potential realms of Muslim metaverses, this book takes readers on a journey to unveil the dynamic relationship between Islam and technology. In a world where smartphones guide prayers and iPads connect elders in study groups, Bunt shares a compelling and timely perspective on the evolving relationship between Islam, technology and the digital age.” ―Umar Ryad, Professor of Arabic and Islamic Studies, University of Leuven, Belgium

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Review by Michael Dhanoya (University of Leicester) in LSE Blogs

“Islamic Algorithms is a great contribution to the topic of Digital Religion …”

Review in The Muslim World‘ by Dr Akif Tahiiev of Goethe-Universitat Frankfurt am Main

‘Gary R. Bunts Islamic Algorithms liefert detaillierte Einblicke in die digitalen Räume von AkteurInnen, die sich auf unterschiedliche Weise auf den Islam “

“Gary R. Bunt’s Islamic Algorithms provides detailed insights into the digital spaces of actors who relate to Islam in various ways.*

* Google Translation

Margareta Wetchy, Gary R. Bunts Islamic Algorithms unter der Lupe, Machine Against the Rage

“Overall, Islamic Algorithms: Online Influence in the Muslim Metaverse is crucial to contemporary Islamic studies. The book is highly recommended for researchers, academics, and practitioners interested in the interaction between
technology and religion.” Reza Adeputra Tohis and Zulkifli Mansyur, Religion & Theology, 32 (2025): Issue 1-2 (Jun 2025) [PDF]

” … Bunt’s volume is an important step forward in understanding the importance of digital discourse to contemporary Islamic traditions and Muslim communities.” James Riggan, Reading Religion (American Academy of Religion)

“Islamic Algorithms provides a timely and thoughtful examination of how Islam, algorithms, and digital culture intersect. It is a valuable resource for scholars and researchers interested in digital presence of Islam, and digital culture both in theory and practice.” Mohamed Taher, Middle Eastern Librarians Association

Book cover: Dijital Dünyada Müslüman Olmak: Mecra, Kimlik ve Otorite‘

Gary R. Bunt’s chapter ‘Şeyh Google’dan Yapay Zekâ İmama Mı?: Müslüman Dijital Mecralarda İslami Etki ve Otoritenin Dönüşümü‘?‘ (trans. Necmiye Durmuş) is available in ‘Dijital Dünyada Müslüman Olmak: Mecra, Kimlik ve Otorite‘ edited by Mehmet Ali Başak (Eskiyeni). The original version was in

Scharia im Wandel edited by Mahmud El-Wereny and Alexander-Kenneth Nagel. (Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag, 2024).

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Scharia im Wandel book cover. Showing figures reading, a stack of books, and the background of a minaret and mosque dome.

My chapter, “From Sheikh Google to ImamAI? Evolving Islamic Influence and Authority in Muslim Digital Worlds,” is published in “Scharia im Wandel. Beiträge zur Transformation islamischer Autorität im Spannungsfeld von Kodifikation, Migration und Digitalisierung,” edited by Mahmud El-Wereny and Alexander-Kenneth Nagel. (Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag, 2024). Studies on Islamic Cultural and Intellectual History, Noorhaidi Hasan et al.

The book is the result of a 2022 conference at Georg-August-Universität Göttingen.

A Turkish version of the chapter is in preparation for publication in 2026.

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