AhlulBayt News Agency (Iran), Interview with Dr. Sahar Khamis about Cyberspace and Cyber Islamic Environments Long read/interview. "This is very important and we should use the internet also as Muslims to try ...

Pew Research Center, Globally, Social Hostilities Related to Religion Decline in 2019, While Government Restrictions Remain at Highest Levels "Social hostilities involving ...

New and noted:

Zachary Sheldon and Heidi A. Campbell, Divine Revelation and Digital Religion, chapter in The Oxford Handbook of Divine Revelation Edited by Balázs M. Mezei, Francesca Aran Murphy, and Kenneth Oakes, 10.1093/oxfordhb/9780198795353.013.40

"This ...

New and noted: the new issue of the Journal of Religion, Media and Digital Culture has several chapters relating to Islam and the internet. I don't have full access, but there are some free to download sections.

Introduction: ...

Melisa Vazquez, How Communication Technologies Remold the Religion/Human Rights Divide Online Synergies for a Global Democratic Space, CALUMET – intercultural law and humanities review ISSN 2465-0145 (on-line) ISSUE 12(2021)

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Abstract extract: "Understanding ...

""Bangladeshi men have been hit hard by the pandemic – in terms of higher death rates compared to other communities, shut down industries and job losses. But with lockdown easing, many fear that the impact of the pandemic on ...

Many congratulations to Dr Owen Watkin for obtaining his PhD for his thesis entitled “Arthur John Arberry (1905-1969): A Critical Evaluation of an Orientalist”.

A.J. Arberry is a significant but under-researched academic figure, famous in particular for his Qur’an translations, but also for many other works. Owen’s work goes a long way to ...

DW.com, Middle East: Are people losing their religion? (analysis/research)

"Recent surveys indicate strongly that across the Middle East and Iran, almost half the population is loosening their ties to Islam. Governments have ...