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IMUSLIMS will be welcomed by all who want to understand the impact of the Internet on the Muslim world today. Gary Bunt, leading expert on Islam, provides a fascinating picture of Internet as a vehicle for transformation of mainstream Islam as well as a propaganda and recruitment tool for militants. L. E  no, Georgetown University, coauthor of Who Speaks for Islam? What a Billion Muslims Really Think like any scholars have commented on online Islam, and a few have undertaken research, but only ant has developed a comprehensive approach to chronicling Muslims’ uptake of the full range cyber technologies. ‘Muslims is a significant book for both religious studies and policy studies.” –JON W. ANDERSON, coeditor of Reformatting Politics: Information Technology and Global Civic Society

Bunt demonstrates an unparalleled command of the many and diverse manifestations of Islam on the Internet.Thoroughly comprehensive and up-to-date, ‘Muslims offers a wealth of examples throughot4, allowing the reader to come away with a firm sense of the rich world of cyber-Islamic environment.–PETER MANDAVILLE, author of Global Political Islam

New 1 temporary Islam community. The Internet has profoundly shaped how both Muslims and non-Muslims perceive Is-lam and how Islamic societies and networks are evolving and shifting in the twenty-first century. says Gary Bunt. While Islamic society has deep historical patterns of global exchange, the Internet has transformed how Jnany Muslims practice the duties and rituals Islam. A place of religious instruction may ist solely in the virtual world, for example, a community may gather only online.

influences outside the traditional’` Islamic knowledge and authority. Fu more, the Internet has dramatically influenced forms of Islamic activism and radicalization, including jihad-oriented campaigns by networks such as al-Qaeda. By surveying the broad spectrum of approaches used to present dimensions of Islamic social, spiritual, and political life on the Internet, encourage diver understandings of online Islam generally.
GARY R. BUNT is senior lecturer in Islamic Studies at the University of Wales. He is author of Virtually Islamic and Islam in the Digital Ag

• AUTHOR: Gary blunt
• PUBLISHER : IBT Books