Muhammad Afzal Upal and Carole M. Cusack (Eds.), Handbook of Islamic Sects and Movements (Brill) is currently available as a free PDF download. It looks really useful.

Great profile in the Guardian of Paul Gilroy, very influential in many academic zones.

Yohann Koshy, The Guardian, The last humanist: how Paul Gilroy ...

Virtually Islamic: Islamic Responses to COVID-19 Conference Videos

Conference YouTube Channel

The edited videos from the recent UWTSD 'Islamic Responses to COVID-19 Conference' are now available

Videos can be viewed sequentially ...

Mujahidul Islam, The Maydan, Islamic Ethics and The Rise of Digital Technology

Interesting long-read and big-questions (some of which are familiar): "“Muslim discourse on ICTs tends to focus on what one is using the technology for. So if you are ...

I'm pleased to say that Owen Watkin's PhD on A.J. Arberry is now available via the UWTSD Repository. I was Director of Studies, with Prof. Catrin Williams as co-supervisor. Do check it out:

Watkin, ...

Virtually Islamic, Islamic Responses to COVID-19: Authority and Religiosity in #Muslim Communities and Digital Worlds Conference

The first batch of abstracts ...

Acquired via Facebook, this one got me laughing.

Khadijah Elshayyal, Cage, Rethinking Muslim Representation – 20 years after 9/11

"What can a Muslim political advocacy look like, that addresses Britain’s Muslims themselves and their institutions, with all their diversity and disagreements, their rivalries ...

'Rewiring the House of God: Religious Self-World Relations in the Digital Environment'. Online workshop organized by Fouad Gehad Marei (University of Birmingham) and Gabriel ...

CFP, Rewiring the House of God: Religious Self-World Relations in the Digital Environment

Online Workshop, 15th – 17th September 2021, organized by Fouad Gehad Marei (University of Birmingham) and Gabriel Malli (University of Graz / University of Erfurt)

I will be one of the discussants at ...

Abusharif, Ibrahim N. (2019) Cyber-Islamic Environments and Salafī-Ṣūfī Contestations Appropriating Digital Media and Challenges to Religious Authority. Doctoral thesis, University of Wales Trinity Saint David.

I supervised this thesis at UWTSD. Do check it out if you are interested ...

Arab News, Saudi female students promote Arabic, Islamic content for online encyclopedia

"The initiative has formed part of the Wiki Dawwin project adopted by the King Abdul Aziz Foundation for Research and Archives’ (Darah) publishing house, represented by its center for digital ...

Nadia Henni-Moulaï, Middle East Eye, 'Olivier Roy: France's government fails to understand the nature of radicalisation'

"The political scientist and specialist in Islam talks about recent attacks in France, says government focus on ...

Ilyse Morgenstein Fuerst, Job Ads Don’t Add Up: Arabic + Middle East + Texts ≠ Islam, Journal of the American Academy of Religion

"Job advertisements for Islamic studies faculty positions provide material and significant insight into the construction and reification of a normative Islam. ...

I'm taking a look at this:

The ISIS Reader: Milestone Texts of the Islamic State Movement is now available at @OUPAcademic's Oxford Scholarship Online at many college/university libraries (like mine) for students to use ...