Prof. Gary R. Bunt discussed the Digital British Islam project at Khizra Mosque in Manchester on 28 June, followed by a Q&A with Dr Sadek Hamid. This was a great opportunity to engage with community members and discuss issues of concern. Photography: Yvonne Howard-Bunt
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by Khadijah Elshayyal and Sadek Hamid This article links directly to the Digital British Islam: Podcast Archive. In recent years, the medium of the podcast has emerged as a platform of choice for a range of Muslim content creators. As new media platforms continue to grow, podcasting provides a convenient and relatively low-cost means of creating
The Prominent Figures collection on the Digital British Islam archive displays the websites of a selection of prominent British Muslim figures. We have chosen a range of individuals from diverse professions and backgrounds to showcase the diversity of Muslims in public life. The list is not exhaustive nor representative but provides a snapshots of the
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This Digital British Islam archive collection explores Directories and guides utilised across communities. The Muslim Directory, first published in the mid-1990s, was perhaps the earliest attempt to collate the details of mosques and providers of Islamically aligned goods and services for a growing population of Muslims in the UK. Since then, this area has grown
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The Islam, Academia & Research collection forms part of Digital British Islam’s (DBI) archive. It represents a work-in-progress. The focus here is on the study of Islam and Muslims in higher education, which is relevant in informing central themes of DBI’s work, as well as fulfilling a need to archive and record the diverse work
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The Digital British Islam Finance and Business collection explores the remarkable growth of Islamic financial and business products and services in the UK. The Muslim population, comprising a diverse and economically active demographic, has driven the demand for financial services aligned with Islamic principles. The desire for ethical and Shari’a-compliant financial solutions has created a
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The Digital British Islam Political Organisations collection appears as part of the Digital British Islam project. This offers a taster of a range of different websites broadly categorised as political. The personal websites maintained by elected politicians generally follow a common model, often one adhering to a party’s template or guidelines. This type of website
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This Digital British Islam archive represents a compilation of selected Mosques and mosque organisations from across the UK’s geographical spread as well as ethnic, cultural, religious and social markers from within Britain’s diverse Muslim communities. The content within these websites can tell us something about their respective institutions and organisations. For larger mosques, websites act
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The Religious Authority collection released as part of the Digital British Islam project, focusing on a key driver within cyber-Islamic environments at many levels. Cyber-Islamic environments is an umbrella concept for diverse and evolving online internet media identified (or self-identified) as affiliated with Islam and Muslims. The collection intends to present snapshot iterations of key
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Education is a significant driver of development in Muslim communities in the UK and much of this activity is represented online. The Digital British Islam collection on Education seeks to take a snapshot of online educational institutions. The first British Muslim educational initiatives grew out of attempts by the first generation of communities who settled
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