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Islam in the Digital Age: E-Jihad, Online Fatwas and Cyber Islamic Environme (Critical Studies on Islam)

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This book is a valuable in three ways. First, it demonstrates that activism and decision-making are two dominant zones in Cyber Islamic Environments (p. 205). Second, it deals with changes in the post 9/11, reflected in sacred cyberspace (p. 2). Third, as I see, it goes in the deep Web to trace the e-content's human face. In fact, Bunt made history by writing Virtually Islamic --the book in hand is a sequel.

Bunt's analysis of the tacit knowledge, converts intangible information into tangible, which thereby becomes a model for return on investments in today's volatile e-world. Cybrarians, Sociologists, Middle East specialists, religionists, Orientalists, historians as well as public policy makers, will greatly benefit from this model developed by an active scholar-cum-Netizen. Any library that specializes in religion or area studies should possess it for their circulating collection, as it is more useful for a complete reading to get a clear picture of the emerging dynamics, whether it is `religion in Internet' and `religion on Internet'.

E-jihad, online Fatwas and other cyber Islamic environments are surveyed in quite a different critical study of Islam online. Islam In The Digital Age is the first comprehensive analysis of Muslims and Islam on the Internet to appear after 9/11: Islam In The Digital Age identifies issues and radical concepts of e-jihad, describes its different forms in the online environment ranging from on-line activism to hacking, and discusses religious insights into Islam on the Net. An important survey of Islam online.