{"id":4957,"date":"2022-05-14T18:10:40","date_gmt":"2022-05-14T17:10:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/virtuallyislamic.com\/vi2023\/?p=4957"},"modified":"2023-03-26T18:11:49","modified_gmt":"2023-03-26T17:11:49","slug":"quran-in-your-pocket","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/virtuallyislamic.com\/vi2023\/2022\/05\/14\/quran-in-your-pocket\/","title":{"rendered":"Qur&#8217;an &#8220;in your pocket&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">So, farewell to the iPod. It was an important innovation at the time, not least in the area of Cyber Islamic Environments. I wrote about how it became possible not only to have 1,000 songs in one&#8217;s pocket, but recitations of the Qur&#8217;an. I transferred many CDs onto mine. See my chapter<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;Rip. Burn. Pray: Islamic Expression Online&#8221;, chapter in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.routledge.com\/Religion-Online-Finding-Faith-on-the-Internet\/Dawson-Cowan\/p\/book\/9780415970228\">Religion Online: Finding Faith on the Internet<\/a>, Douglas E. Cowan and Lorne L. Dawson (editors), (New York: Routledge, 2004), 123-134.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">apple has officially discontinued the iPod.. the end of an era. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/4ZAL3tCFaG\">pic.twitter.com\/4ZAL3tCFaG<\/a>\u2014 2000s (@PopCulture2000s) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/PopCulture2000s\/status\/1524084308385964039?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">May 10, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So, farewell to the iPod. It was an important innovation at the time, not least in the area of Cyber Islamic Environments. I wrote about how it became possible not only to have 1,000 songs in one&#8217;s pocket, but recitations of the Qur&#8217;an. I transferred many CDs onto mine. See my chapter &#8220;Rip. Burn. Pray:&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[398,243,159],"tags":[399,88],"class_list":["post-4957","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-apple","category-digital-quran","category-quran","tag-apple","tag-quran"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/virtuallyislamic.com\/vi2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4957","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/virtuallyislamic.com\/vi2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/virtuallyislamic.com\/vi2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/virtuallyislamic.com\/vi2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/virtuallyislamic.com\/vi2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4957"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/virtuallyislamic.com\/vi2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4957\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4958,"href":"https:\/\/virtuallyislamic.com\/vi2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4957\/revisions\/4958"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/virtuallyislamic.com\/vi2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4957"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/virtuallyislamic.com\/vi2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4957"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/virtuallyislamic.com\/vi2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4957"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}