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This volume deals with the so-called new Information and
Communication Technologies (ICT) and their interrelationship with
Muslims and the interpretation of Islam. This volume taps into what
has been labelled Media Studies 2.0, which has been characterized
by an intensified focus on everyday meanings and ‘lay’ users
– in contrast to earlier emphases on experts or self-acclaimed
experts. This lay adoption of ICT and the subsequent digital
‘literacy’ is not least noticeable among Muslim communities.
According to some global estimates, one in ten internet users is a
Muslim. This volume offers an ethnography of ICT in Muslim
communities. The contributors to this volume also demonstrate a new
kind of moderation with regard to more sweeping and avant-gardistic
claims, which have characterized the study of ICT previously. This
moderation has been combined with a keen attention to the empirical
material but also deliberations on new quantitative and qualitative
approaches to ICT, Muslims and Islam, for instance the digital
challenges and changes wrought on the Qur’an, Islam’s sacred
scripture. As such this volume will also be relevant for people
interested in the study of ICT and the blooming field of digital
humanities. Scholars of Islam and the Islamic world have always be
engaged and entangled in their object of study. The developments
within ICT have also affected how scholars take part in and
influence public Islamic and academic discussions. This complicated
issue provides basis for a number of meta-reflexive studies in this
volume. It will be essential for students and scholars within
Islamic studies but will also be of interest for anthropologists,
sociologists and others with a humanistic interest in ICT, religion
and Islam.
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