The Fatwā in the Digital Age : What Are Muslim Millennials Looking For? / / by Wael Farouq

• Autore: Farouq Wael
• Pubblicazione: Cham : , : Springer Nature Switzerland : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2024
• Edizione: 1st ed. 2024.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (201 pages)
• Disciplina: 300.1
• Soggetto topico: Philosophy and social sciences; Islamic philosophy; Islam and the social sciences; Islamic sociology; Islam - Study and teaching; Technology - Philosophy; Philosophy of the Social Sciences; Islamic Philosophy; Social Scientific Studies of Islam; Islamic Studies; Philosophy of Technology
• Nota di contenuto: Chapter 1: Introduction -- Chapter 2: What is a Fatwā? -- Chapter 3: Islam and Modernity: Coexisting Contradictions -- Chapter 4: European Muslims and The Digital Fatwā -- Chapter 5: Young Muslims and the Digital Fatwā -- Chapter 6: Discussion and Conclusions.
• Sommario/riassunto: The rise of a significantly large (and young) Muslim population in the West, possessing no historical tradition of being a minority in a non-Muslim environment, has led to a recurring debate about the integration of Muslims into Western societies and the compatibility of Islam with Western values. The proliferation of Islamic sites to which thousands of Western Muslims turn to request a fatwa, i.e. a religious legal opinion on any issue, hints at the urgency felt by these Muslims to find a way out of this conflictual dialectic, since most of their questions concern precisely how to reconcile Islamic principles with some aspect of modern life in the West. The pervasiveness of these internet fatwas is a striking phenomenon worth of study that can help finding answers to the longstanding debate about the integration of Muslims in the West and in modern societies. raising interesting questions: What do Muslims in Western societies ask these virtual muftis and why? Who are they? What are their desires and concerns? In their asking, are these Muslims seeking integration or separation? Do these questions reflect common clichés about Muslims, as conveyed by some Western media narratives or not? Do they reason as individuals or as members of a religious community? This book presents a scientific study aimed at answering these questions through a statistical and discourse analysis of a large corpus of more than ten thousand fatwa questions extracted from the huge fatwa databases available on the internet. Wael Farouq is Associate Professor of Arabic Language and Literature at the Faculty of Linguistic Sciences and Foreign Literatures of the Catholic University of the Sacred Heart in Milan (Italy) and Professor of Arabic Language and Culture at the Faculty of Political Sciences of the same university.
• Titolo autorizzato: The Fatwā in the Digital Age
• ISBN: 3-031-66036-6
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910886080003321
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