Digital Islam: Changing the Boundaries of Religious Knowledge?

Mandaville, P. (1999)

Article / Letter to editor

The phenomenal popularization and transnational propagation of communications and information technologies (hereafter referred to as IT) in recent years has generated a wide range of important questions in the context of Islam’s sociology of knowledge. How have these technologies transformed Muslim concepts of what Islam is and who possesses the authority to speak on its behalf? Moreover, how are they changing the ways in which Muslims imagine the boundaries of the umma?

• Islam's sociology of knowledge

• All authors: Mandaville, P.
• Date: 1999
• Journal: ISIM Newsletter
• Volume: 2
• Issue: 1
• Pages: 1 - 23
• Publisher: ISIM, Leiden