{"id":9712,"date":"2026-07-01T12:59:18","date_gmt":"2026-07-01T11:59:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/virtuallyislamic.com\/vi2023\/?p=9712"},"modified":"2026-07-07T12:21:07","modified_gmt":"2026-07-07T11:21:07","slug":"islamic-responses-to-covid-19-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/virtuallyislamic.com\/vi2023\/2026\/07\/01\/islamic-responses-to-covid-19-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Islamic Responses to COVID-19"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"560\" src=\"https:\/\/virtuallyislamic.com\/vi2023\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/Screenshot-2026-07-01-at-12.57.22-1024x560.png\" alt=\"Poster for 2021 Islamic Responses to COVID-19 Conference.  Silhouette of mosques, geometric designs at base.\" class=\"wp-image-9713\" srcset=\"https:\/\/virtuallyislamic.com\/vi2023\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/Screenshot-2026-07-01-at-12.57.22-1024x560.png 1024w, https:\/\/virtuallyislamic.com\/vi2023\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/Screenshot-2026-07-01-at-12.57.22-300x164.png 300w, https:\/\/virtuallyislamic.com\/vi2023\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/Screenshot-2026-07-01-at-12.57.22-768x420.png 768w, https:\/\/virtuallyislamic.com\/vi2023\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/Screenshot-2026-07-01-at-12.57.22-1536x841.png 1536w, https:\/\/virtuallyislamic.com\/vi2023\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/Screenshot-2026-07-01-at-12.57.22-2048x1121.png 2048w, https:\/\/virtuallyislamic.com\/vi2023\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/Screenshot-2026-07-01-at-12.57.22-600x328.png 600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I organised a lockdown conference: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.virtuallyislamic.com\/irc19\/irc19\/programme.php\">\u2018Islamic Responses to COVID-19: Authority and Religiosity in #Muslim Communities and Digital Worlds\u2018.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">There were significant contributions from international scholars exploring aspects of digital Islam (++) in the aftermath of COVID-19. The content remains very relevant across different disciplinary areas.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This conference captures a moment in time in relation to the development of academic work on digital Islam. If you missed it, then the videos are still available, along with abstracts (click on the link above).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I organised a lockdown conference: \u2018Islamic Responses to COVID-19: Authority and Religiosity in #Muslim Communities and Digital Worlds\u2018. There were significant contributions from international scholars exploring aspects of digital Islam (++) in the aftermath of COVID-19. The content remains very relevant across different disciplinary areas. This conference captures a moment in time in relation to&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[327,6,53,5],"tags":[366,1131,382,54,89],"class_list":["post-9712","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-conferences","category-gary-r-bunt","category-religious-authority","category-research","tag-conferences","tag-covid-19","tag-gary-r-bunt","tag-religious-authority","tag-research"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/virtuallyislamic.com\/vi2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9712","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=9712"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/virtuallyislamic.com\/vi2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9712\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9714,"href":"https:\/\/virtuallyislamic.com\/vi2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9712\/revisions\/9714"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/virtuallyislamic.com\/vi2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9712"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/virtuallyislamic.com\/vi2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9712"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/virtuallyislamic.com\/vi2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9712"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}