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The Legality of Intellectual Property Rights under Islamic Law
Intellectual property rights are not regulated by Islamic law and jurisprudence per se. The issue is whether the principles of Islamic law can be constructed in a way to provide support for such protection. This paper assesses the...
Silvia Beltrametti, 25 Feb 2010
Video Games, Video Clips, and Islam: New Media and the Communication of Values
This chapter analyzes video games and video clips with an Islamic emphasis and the various levels at which they convey ethical and moral values. Both video games and video clips have been neglected and marginalized by the academy,...
Vit Sisler, 9 Nov 2009
Palestine in Pixels: The Holy Land, Arab-Israeli Conflict, and Reality Construction in Video Games
This article explores the ways in which Palestine is envisioned, and its representation constructed, in contemporary video games. At the same time, capitalizing on Bogost’s notion of “procedurality”, this article discusses the...
Vit Sisler, 19 Oct 2009
European Courts’ Authority Contested? The Case of Marriage and Divorce Fatwas On-line
This article explores Islamic websites providing normative content for European Muslim minorities. It focuses on four distinct Sunni websites and analyzes their fatwas, i.e. legal and religious recommendations issued in matters...
Vit Sisler, 7 Jul 2009
The Politics of Virtual Fatwa Counseling in the 21st Century
A multitude of fatwa services sprung up on the Internet during the last few years and has grown since. One finds askimam.org, islamicity.com, islamonline.net, and islamqa.com among them. Yet it is not only these private Muslim...
Jens Kutscher, 6 Jul 2009
“Gaining Knowledge”: Salafi Activism in German and Dutch Online Forums
Recent years have witnessed an expansion of Salafi activism into computer-mediated environments like online discussion forums. Forum activities are part of the activists' endeavor to access the religious sources (Quran and Sunnah)...
Carmen Becker, 6 Jul 2009
Making the Internet Kosher: Orthodox (Haredi) Jews and their approach to the World Wide Web
This article surveys the approach of Orthodox Judaism – especially the Haredi (Ultra-Orthodox) Judaism – to the Internet. In the introduction we compare the approach of the Abrahamic religions to the Internet. Then we focus on the...
Marek Cejka, 6 Jul 2009
