{"id":5950,"date":"2023-11-21T12:09:43","date_gmt":"2023-11-21T12:09:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/virtuallyislamic.com\/vi2023\/?p=5950"},"modified":"2023-11-21T12:09:45","modified_gmt":"2023-11-21T12:09:45","slug":"tiktok-converts-and-quran-encounters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/virtuallyislamic.com\/vi2023\/2023\/11\/21\/tiktok-converts-and-quran-encounters\/","title":{"rendered":"TikTok Converts and Qur&#8217;an Encounters"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/books\/2023\/nov\/20\/palestine-quran-islam-americans-tiktok\">Alaina Demopoulos, The Guardian, Young Americans are picking up the Qur\u2019an \u2018to understand the resilience of Muslim Palestinians\u2019, 20 November 2023.<\/a> &#8220;Rice is not alone in wanting to experience the Qur\u2019an. On TikTok, young people are reading the text to better understand a religion that\u2019s long been vilified by western media, and to show solidarity with the many Muslims in Gaza. Videos under the hashtag \u201cquranbookclub\u201d \u2013 which has a modest 1.9 million views on the app \u2013 show users holding up their newly purchased texts and reading verses for the first time.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Check it out here: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tiktok.com\/tag\/quranbookclub\">TikTok, quranbookclub<\/a> <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Young Americans are picking up the Qur\u2019an \u2018to understand the resilience of Muslim Palestinians\u2019 | Books | The Guardian <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/52yxrojap1\">https:\/\/t.co\/52yxrojap1<\/a><\/p>&mdash; Gary Bunt (@garybunt) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/garybunt\/status\/1726746477270069757?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">November 20, 2023<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Alaina Demopoulos, The Guardian, Young Americans are picking up the Qur\u2019an \u2018to understand the resilience of Muslim Palestinians\u2019, 20 November 2023. &#8220;Rice is not alone in wanting to experience the Qur\u2019an. On TikTok, young people are reading the text to better understand a religion that\u2019s long been vilified by western media, and to show solidarity&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[243,159,142],"tags":[205,666,402,311,88,678,145],"class_list":["post-5950","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-digital-quran","category-quran","category-tiktok","tag-converts","tag-israel-hamas-conflict-2023","tag-palestine","tag-palestine-gaza","tag-quran","tag-reverts","tag-tiktok"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/virtuallyislamic.com\/vi2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5950","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=5950"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/virtuallyislamic.com\/vi2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5950\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5951,"href":"https:\/\/virtuallyislamic.com\/vi2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5950\/revisions\/5951"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/virtuallyislamic.com\/vi2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5950"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/virtuallyislamic.com\/vi2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5950"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/virtuallyislamic.com\/vi2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5950"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}