Cyber Muslims

This new book is a study of Islam in the digital world, containing collection scientific articles written by 16 scholars about increasingly interesting and complex phenomena global Islamic world. Most authors teach at various universities United States Canada (North America), editor this volume Robert Rosehnal, Professor Department Religion Studies Founding Director Center for Global Lehigh University, Pennsylvania, USA.
 
 interdisciplinary highlights cutting-edge research with unique perspectives insights into evolving cyber landscape, presenting case studies from multiple geographic cultural locations, languages ​​(Arabic, Persian, Indonesian Spanish). The main sources authors, analysis interpretation they use multimedia technology. These “virtual texts” include websites, podcasts, blogs, Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, YouTube, online magazines discussion forums, religious apps. Websites social media platforms are living “texts” that constantly evolving, shrinking, changing, even disappearing, leaving no trace. In sense, needs to be seen as portrait—or, rather, screenshot—of deformed world some point its ongoing evolution. explores widely expression Muslim communities cyberspace, or iMuslims, related imams, clerics, Sufis, feminists fashionistas, artists activists, spiritualists influencers. Several map diversity vibrancy against backdrop broader trends particular hot issues affecting Muslims Western countries: racism Islamophobia, gender dynamics, celebrity culture, identity politics, fashions piety, changing practices. presented cover wide geographical area, namely Indonesia, Iran, Arab Middle East, North America.