Vol. 15, Iss. 2, 2021

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Facebook as Embodiment of Social Relations and Piety among American Muslim Women

20 Dec 2021

Facebook as Embodiment of Social Relations and Piety among American Muslim Women
Ashley Hahn Article Based on a three-year-long ethnographic research on a group of young Turkish–American Muslim women, affiliated with a faith-based social movement, I explored why these young women turned to Facebook to maintain their religious sisterhood after their graduation from high school and how their media choice and use of Facebook contribute to their Muslim subject formation. Drawing from literature on ethics and morality and employing a…

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From Deception to Inception: Social Media and the Changing Function of Fake News (Lessons from Egypt 2013)

20 Dec 2021

From Deception to Inception: Social Media and the Changing Function of Fake News (Lessons from Egypt 2013)
Hesham Shafick Article The continued political influence of fake news despite the unprecedented accessibility of corrective information raises a pressing question: How can fake news impact publics which recognize its inveracity? Building on and developing Daniel Kahneman and Amos Tversky’s theory of “cognitive endowments,” this article unpacks the mechanisms by which news endows hypotheses, models, references, and relations that impact public assumptions of what might possibly be true,…

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Censorship in the Study of Early Islam

20 Dec 2021

Censorship in the Study of Early Islam
Philip Wood Comment This article argues that an important driver for complaints about anti-Muslim blasphemy has been the political and legal environment of Pakistan. It examines a case where an academic text on early Islam was suppressed because of fears over its reception in Pakistan. It argues that university presses ought to keep open a space where ideas can be critiqued in a non-polemical fashion, but that, in…

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Review: Islam, Science Fiction and Extraterrestrial Life: The Culture of Astrobiology in the Muslim World ; Space Science and the Arab World: Astronauts, Observatories and Nationalism in the Middle East

20 Dec 2021

Review: Islam, Science Fiction and Extraterrestrial Life: The Culture of Astrobiology in the Muslim World ; Space Science and the Arab World: Astronauts, Observatories and Nationalism in the Middle East
Leif Stenberg Book Review This review discusses two books by Jörg Mathias Determann. The books explore space science in the Arab world and Islam, science fiction and extraterrestrial life in the Muslim world. Both are detailed accounts, and they place their respective subjects in a historical context. The books also present and analyse topics such as science, science fiction, and astrobiology, which are rarely the focus of scholars of…

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Review: Representing Islam: Hip-Hop of the September 11 Generation

20 Dec 2021

Review: Representing Islam: Hip-Hop of the September 11 Generation
Anders Ackfeldt Book Review The book Representing Islam: Hip-Hop of the September 11 Generation (2020) by Kamaludeen Mohmed Nasir explores the entangled relationship between Islam and hip-hop. The book centers around Muslim hip-hop artists affected by the war on terror and the long-term consequences of the 9/11 attacks; increased surveillance, a securitization of Islam, and an amplified islamophobia, not only in the United States but around the world. The…

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