Digital Islam is a research project that focuses on the Middle East, Islam, and digital media. It aims to analyze the various ways in which Islam and Muslim identities are articulated through information and communication technologies and the Internet. Its research materials include websites, digital videoclips, and videogames. The webpage digitalislam.eu provides free access to full texts and bibliographical database of research resources.

Publication Data

Digital Islam: Research Project on Islam, Middle East and Digital Media / edited by Vit Sisler. Available online: http://www.digitalislam.eu/
ISSN 1803-523X

Editor-in-chief

Vit Sisler, editor-in-chief, is an assistent and a Ph.D. candidate at the Institute of Information Science at Charles University in Prague where he is finishing his thesis on Islam and Islamic Law in Cyberspace. His research deals with the problematic of contemporary Islamic law, the relation between Islam and digital media, normative frameworks in cyberspace, and the topic of educational and political video games. Vit Sisler is a chair of workshop Religious Norms in Cyberspace which is annually held at the Cyberspace international conference in Brno, Czech Republic. 

Editors

Dominika Sokol, editor, graduated from South Asian Studies at Charles University in Prague in October of 2005 with a MA thesis on Web Activism of Indian Separatist Movements. She is currently working on her master's degree in Information Science at the same university. Since October 2007, she has been residing in the United Arab Emirates and conducting research for a master's thesis dealing with information behavior of Emirati university students.                                                                                                                                    
                                                                    
Michal Zdenek, editor, is a MA student of Arabic and Persian Languages at the Institute of Near Eastern and African Studies at Charles University in Prague where he is finishing his master's thesis titled An Islamic Perspective on Sexuality. He works as a project manager in a privately-owned company, participating in projects related to PR, media monitoring, new media, edutainment, and environmental issues in the Muslim world.

List of Contributors

Jon W. Anderson, Catholic University of America
Kerstin Radde-Antweiler, University of Heidelberg
Carmen Becker, Radboud University Nijmegen
John Chesworth, St. Paul’s United Theological College
Marek Cejka, Masaryk University in Brno
Krystina Derrickson, Tulane University
Joshua S. Fouts, Carnegie Council
Simone Heidbrink, University of Heidelberg
Simona Hlavacova, Charles University in Prague
Jens Kutscher, Friedrich Alexander University Erlangen-Nuremberg
Libuse Martinkova, Charles University in Prague
Nadja Miczek, University of Heidelberg
Martin Riexinger, Georg-August-Universität Göttingen
Vit Sisler, Charles University in Prague
Terenjit Singh Sevea, Institute of Southeast Asian Studies
Dominika Sokol, Charles University in Prague
Daniel Martin Varisco, Hofstra University
Abdulrahman Al Zaagy, University of Aberystwyth

Disclaimer

Digitalislam.eu does not monitor, control, or fund any external linked site and is not responsible for its content. The presence of a link does not constitute or imply any endorsement, sponsorship, or recommendation of the content of any linked site.

Acknowledgments

This project has been partially supported by the 224130/2006 and GRANTY/2008/547 research grants of the Faculty of Arts and Philosophy and by the grant project GA UK 125408 of Charles University in Prague.

Contact

editor@digitalislam.eu