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Muslims and social media: A scoping review
Information, Communication & Society, volume 28, issue 11 (2025), pp. 1908-1922
"As Muslim individuals, communities, and institutions have been transformed by the digital revolution, a literature has developed that seeks to contribute knowledge about these changes. Pioneering studies in this field suggest that this literature has a focus on digital documents. This scoping liter
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Hate Speech Events in India. Report 2025
Washington, DC: India Hate Lab (IHL); Center for the Study of Organized Hate (CSOH) (2025), 111 pp.
"India Hate Lab (IHL) documented 1,318 hate speech events targeting religious minorities, particularly Muslims and Christians, in 2025 across 21 states, one union territory, and the National Capital Territory (NCT) of Delhi. On average, four hate speech events occurred per day. This marks a 13% incr
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The Epistemic Modes of Muqtada al-Sadr’s Charisma Production on Hybrid Media
Populism, volume 8 (2025), 26 pp.
"This paper sought to provide an account of the epistemic modes of Muqtada al-Sadr’s charisma production on hybrid media. It did so while engaging in a virtual ethnography of videographic content on Instagram and YouTube from Muqtada and his ostensible fan pages. The affective bond conceptual fram
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"The initial objective of this investigation was to analyze the ethical issues raised by artificial intelligence according to religious actors in Senegal. In a country where 95% of the population are Muslim, the voice of religious authorities, even beyond the religious sphere, is eagerly awaited and
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The Nexus of Digital Authoritarianism and Religious Populism
Religions, volume 14, issue 747 (2024), 19 pp.
"This paper delves into the intricate relationship between religious populism and the legitimization of digital authoritarianism in Turkey. Specifically, it investigates how the ruling party, AKP, has strategically linked Islamist values to state policies as a means of justifying its repressive cont
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The Oxford Handbook of Digital Religion
Deep Insights
New York: Oxford University Press (2024), xiii, 661 pp.
"Digital Religion refers to the contemporary practice and understanding that religion takes place in both online and offline contexts, and how these contexts intersect with each other. Scholars in this growing field of Digital Religion studies recognize that religion has been influenced by its engag
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The flood, the traitors, and the protectors: Affect and white identity in the Internet Research Agency’s Islamophobic propaganda on Twitter
Ethnic and Racial Studies, volume 47, issue 5 (2024), pp. 982-1008
"Between 2015 and 2017, the Internet Research Agency (IRA) – a Kremlin-backed “troll farm” based in St. Petersburg – executed a propaganda campaign on Twitter to target US voters. Scholarship has expended relatively little effort to study the role of Islamophobia in the IRA’s propaganda ca
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Bilder nationaler Zugehörigkeit: Muslimische Frauen und »akzeptable Differenz« in Deutschschweizer Mediendiskursen
Bielefeld: transcript Verlag (2024), 328 pp.
"Nationen basieren auf Ein- und Ausschlussmechanismen, die in öffentlichen Mediendiskursen ausgehandelt werden. Im heutigen Europa sind Referenzen zu Religion und spezifisch zum Islam bei der Verhandlung nationaler Zugehörigkeit zentral. Bisherige Analysen öffentlicher Debatten zum Islam in Europ
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Digital Authoritarianism and its Religious Legitimization: The cases of Turkey, Indonesia, Malaysia, Pakistan, and India
Singapore: Palgrave Macmillan (2023), xv, 174 pp.
"This book explores how digital authoritarianism operates in India, Pakistan, Turkey, Indonesia, and Malaysia, and how religion can be used to legitimize digital authoritarianism within democracies. In doing so, it explains how digital authoritarianism operates at various technological levels includ
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Disentangling Jihad, Political Violence and Media
Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press (2023), xxvi, 420 pp.
"The entanglement of Jihad, Political Violence, and Media has determined the lives of Muslims in Europe and the US over the past 20 years. This book unravels the nexus of these elements, to critically examine how their conjunction is perpetuated, reproduced, or disputed. In 16 case studies, the cont
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Tweeting for Religion: How Indonesian Islamic Fundamentalist Organizations Use Twitter
Journal of Media and Religion, volume 22, issue 1 (2023), pp. 1-16
"This study investigates how Islamic fundamentalists groups in Indonesia use Twitter to communicate with their stakeholders to achieve organizational goals. Based on previous work, three main functions of the use of social media by organizations were examined: spreading information, building and mai
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Islam and Me: Narrating a Diaspora
Chicago: Rutgers University Press (2023), 205 pp.
"Growing up in Mogadishu, Somalia, Shirin Ramzanali Fazel was immersed in the language and culture of Italy, Somalia's former colonizer. Yet when she moved to Italy as a young mother in the 1970s, she discovered a country where immigrants and Muslims were viewed with a mixture of curiosity and suspi
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Provocative images in contemporary Islam
Leiden: Leiden University Press (2023), 233 pp.
"Moving beyond a common visual concern within Religious Studies with art, aesthetic value, and perceptions of beauty or coherence, this volume shows how, when, and why images dare, shock, terrorize, confront, challenge, mock, shame, taunt, or offend, either intentionally or unintentionally, and as s
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What it Takes to be Religious: Religion Online Vs. Online Religion
Journal of Arab & Muslim Media Research, volume 16, issue 2 (2023), pp. 161-179
"This study aims to examine how active users of social media in relation to their religious values and commitments evaluate the construction and byproducts of religion online. The results show that there are three main repertoires related to the use of social media and religiosity in Turkey: religio
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Die Hydra des Dschihadismus: Entstehung, Ausbreitung und Abwehr einer globalen Gefahr
Bonn: Bundeszentrale für politische Bildung (bpb), Sonderausg. (2023), 366 pp.
"Die grausamen Handlungen dschihadistischer Gruppierungen wie der „Al-Qaida“ oder des „Islamischen Staates“ schockieren und verbreiten Angst. Immer wieder scheinen neue Attentäter nachzurücken, ein Phänomen, das Asiem El Difraoui mit den stets nachwachsenden Köpfen einer Hydra vergleicht
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Islamismus: Eine Einführung
Bonn: Bundeszentrale für politische Bildung (bpb) (2023), 151 pp.
"Die Islamwissenschaftlerin Sabine Damir-Geilsdorf liefert in ihrer fundierten und allgemeinverständlichen Einführung Hintergrundwissen für alle, die sich einen Überblick über historische und aktuelle Entwicklungen im Themenfeld Islamismus verschaffen möchten oder beruflich und ehrenamtlich mi
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Watching Competencies: Malay Women, Turkish Serial Dramas and Islamic Modernity
International Journal of Media & Cultural Politics, volume 19, issue 1 (2023), pp. 101-120
"This article discusses the emergence of Turkish serial dramas as a site for contestation over the impact of Islamic modernity on Malay women in contemporary Malaysia. Despite its popularity among Malay women, Turkish serial drama has been criticized for misleading and confusing the audience about I
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Afrique Musulmane
Paris: L'Harmattan (2023), 172 pp.
"L'Afrique, berceau de l'humanité, est un continent qui a toujours fasciné par son immense superficie, sa diversité linguistique et son pluralisme religieux. L'Afrique, c'est aussi le continent qui cristallise tous les paradoxes. Lieu de richesse et de pauvreté, de foi et de non-foi, vaste terri
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On the Significance of Religion in Violence Against Women and Girls
London; New York: Routledge (2023), xxi, 171 pp.
"In this ground-breaking volume, the authors explore two sides of religion: the ways in which it contributes to violence against women and girls (VAWG) and the ways it counters it. Recognising the very real impact of religion on the lives of women and girls, it prioritises experiences and learnings
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"Covering the polarizing and fragmented opinions over Islam and the rights of women, for example, requires context, attachment to core ethical values, and stylish truth-telling. Without professional expertise, a good understanding of the issues in play and a commitment to diversity in their approach
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