Focus and Scope

 

Aims & Scope
Aims
The journal advances rigorous, internationally engaged research on Islamic religious life as it is lived and mediated in digital and intelligent environments. Its specific aims are:
1 To provide a dedicated scholarly home for the study of Muslim digital religion within communication, media, and religious studies.
2 To examine how artificial intelligence and algorithmic systems reshape religious knowledge, authority, and practice.
3 To encourage theoretical and methodological innovation, including indigenous and normative approaches to communication tested against digital and AI conditions.
4 To support an international community of researchers, practitioners, and institutions working across Muslim-majority and Muslim-minority contexts.
Scope
The journal publishes theoretical, empirical, and methodological research on contemporary mediated religion. It welcomes contributions from communication and media studies, religious studies, cultural studies, sociology, anthropology, and the computational social sciences — provided the focus rests on living, mediated religious life rather than on the computational analysis of historical corpora alone.
TOPICS OF INTEREST (INCLUDE, BUT ARE NOT LIMITED TO)
◆  Digital da'wah and the mediation and fragmentation of religious authority across platforms
◆  Artificial intelligence in religious communication — generative da'wah, machine-issued fatwa, religious chatbots, and AI advisers
◆  Algorithmic curation, recommendation systems, and the circulation of Islamic discourse online
◆  Platform governance, content moderation, misinformation, and religious hate speech affecting Muslim publics
◆  Digital religious publics, influencers, youth religiosity, and everyday piety
◆  Gender, identity, and community formation in Islamic digital spaces
◆  Ethics of intelligent media — synthetic and deepfake religious content, surveillance, authenticity, and trust
◆  Theory building in Islamic and prophetic communication for digital and AI contexts
◆  Computational study of contemporary Islamic online discourse — network analysis, natural language processing, and related methods