Cyber Muslims

Robert Rozehnal is Professor of Religion Studies and the Founding Director of the Center for Global Islamic Studies at Lehigh University, USA. His books include Cyber Sufis: Virtual Expressions of the American Muslim Experience (2019) and Piety, Politics and Everyday Ethics in Southeast Asian Islam: Beautiful Behavior (Bloomsbury, 2019).

There is no doubt that this is a timely volume. Cyber Muslims offers a fantastic range of material to readers curious about the myriad ways in which the internet is shaping and being shaped by Muslims. From art and lifestyle influencers, to podcasters and spiritual guides, these essays refuse to essentialize or flatten the effects of digital platforms and the affective communities that produce and engage them. The result is a terrific read that opens up both new understandings of contemporary Muslim life and new directions for future exploration.

• List of IllustrationsList of ContributorsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction: Mapping Islamic Digital Media in the Internet Age, Robert Rozehnal (Lehigh University, USA)Part I: Authority and Authenticity1. The Net Imam Effect: Digital Contestation of #Islam and Religious Authority, Gary R. Bunt (University of Wales-Trinity Saint David, UK)2. Hybrid Imams: Young Muslims and Religious Authority on Social Media, Sana Patel3. Mediating Authority: A Sufi Shaykh in Multiple Media, Ismail Fajrie Alatas (New York University, USA)Part II: Community and Identity4. Stream If You Want: See Something, Say Something and the Humanizing Potential of Digital Islam, Caleb Elfenbein, Grinnell College, USA5. Latinx Muslim Digital Landscapes: Locating Networks and Cultural Practices, Harold Morales (Morgan State University, USA) and Madelina Nuñez (Purdue University, USA)6. Revisiting Digital Islamic Feminism: Multiple Resistances, Identities, and Online Communities, Sahar Khamis (University of Maryland, College Park, USA)7. #MuslimGirlWoke: A Muslim Lifestyle Website Challenges Intersectional Oppression, Kristin M. Peterson (Boston College, USA)Part III: Piety and Performance8. The Digital Niqabosphere as a Hypermediated Third Space, Anna Piela (Northwestern University, USA)9. Islam as Meditation: Mindfulness Apps for Muslims in the Digital Spiritual Marketplace, Megan Adamson Sijapati, (Gettysburg College, USA)10. From Mecca With Love: Muslim Religious Apps and the Centering of Mecca, Andrea Stanton (University of Denver, USA)11. Seeing a Global Islam?: Eid al-Adha on Instagram, Rosemary Pennington (Miami University, USA)Part IV: Visual and Cultural (Re)presentation12. Defining Islamic Art: Practices and Digital Reconfigurations, Hussein Rashid (Independent Scholar, USA)13.Dousing the Flame: The Political Work of Religious Satire in Contemporary Indonesia, James B. Hoesterey (Emory University, USA)14. The Instagram Cleric: History, Technicity, and Shii Iranian Jurists in the Age of Social Media, Babak Rahimi, (University of California-San Diego, USA)15. Muslims Between the Blackmail of Transparency and the Right to Opacity, Nabil Echchaibi (University of Colorado-Boulder, USA)NotesBibliographyIndex