Virtually Islamic

Hashtag Islam can be obtained through all the usual channels in Australia and New Zealand, including through Footprint Books. Their October ...

Publishers Weekly, Nonfiction Review, Hashtag Islam: How Cyber- Islamic Environments Are Transforming Religious Authority " ... by in...

Hannah Fry, Hello World: How to be Human in the Age of the Machine, Penguin Books Another one for the Reading list (helped by her TV docum...

It's been interesting to review the output of CIC Saudi Arabia on Twitter during Hajj 2018, presenting human stories within the hajj.  S...

Interesting review of Peter W. Singer and Emerson T. Brooking's book 'LikeWar: How Social Media Became The Locus Of 21st Century Wa...

CJ Werleman, Middle East Eye, How Russia is trying to erase Tatar Muslims Analysis/opinion.

The Times, Dina Torkia interview: the Muslim fashion blogger talks Boris Johnson and burkas Profile of Dina Torkia, high profile fashionis...

albawaba, Manufacturing Consent: Saudi and Amazon Deploy Twitter Bots to Insist They Are Virtuous Allegations.

Seán McLoughlin, The Conversation, Hajj: how globalisation transformed the market for pilgrimage to Mecca, 15 Aug 2018

Independent, Iranian hackers attack UK universities to steal secret research allegations. "Hackers linked with the Iranian government ...

The Times, Pilgrims make progress with haj app "This year the authorities have been determined to clean up the image of the haj, the a...

CUP, Michael Kenney The Islamic State in Britain

Reuters, Islamic State chief, in rare speech, urges followers to fight on "Islamic State leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, in his first pur...

ICSR, Reintegrating ISIS Supporters in Syria: Efforts, Priorities and Challenges

Guardian, Hajj 'nap pods' being introduced for pilgrims to Saudi Arabia "A Saudi charity, the Haji and Mutamer Gift Charitable...

The National, Hajj 2018: bringing technology to the millennia-old pilgrimage " "The Saudi government is using technological adva...

I'm currently off-line and not updating this blog. I am still tweeting @garybunt . I will be updating the blog in due course. In the m...

Amsterdam Institute for Humanities Research (AIHR),'Approaches to Digital Religious Studies' with Prof. Gary R. Bunt (University of ...

buzzfeed, "Taqiyya": How An Obscure Islamic Concept Became An Obsession Of Anti-Muslim Activists "I mean, 99.99% of Muslims...

wsj, Indonesia’s Islamic Floggings Will Move Indoors Where Kids Can’t See and to stop viral videos