Insight Turkey, a quarterly journal published by SETA Foundation for Political, Economic and Social Research, has published an issue with several articles dealing with Muslim minorities in Europe. The current issue, having a...
This project is focused on the analysis of the everyday digital literacy practices of Moroccan and Turkish immigrant youth in the Netherlands. While the past several years have seen an increasing amount of research on the digital...
The new issue of the Orient journal focuses on the Muslim world and the Internet, and contains different perspectives on issues related to political discourse, political activism and media-mediated authority in Islam. The journal,...
Meedan, a San Francisco-based website providing translations of news articles in both Arabic and English, has been officaly launched today. The forum uses machine translation with expert corrections in an attempt to bridge the...
The Centre for Middle Eastern Studies at the Metropolitan University Prague warmly invites you to its annual conference. This year’s theme, "The Middle East after the War on Terror," promises to provide scholars, students,...
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...
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,...
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...
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...
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...
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)...
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...