Between Fitna and the Idyll
The article aims to explore and analyze online activity of Polish female converts to Islam, especially, on forums. Since the number of Muslims in Poland is marginal, Internet forums provide the converts with a sense of a virtual Polish umma as well as information about Islam. At the same time, most...
| Published in: | Hawwa |
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Brill
2015
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Hawwa
Year: 2015, Volume: 13, Issue: 3, Pages: 344-362 |
| Further subjects: | B
Female
convert
Poland
internet
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Volltext (Verlag) |
| Summary: | The article aims to explore and analyze online activity of Polish female converts to Islam, especially, on forums. Since the number of Muslims in Poland is marginal, Internet forums provide the converts with a sense of a virtual Polish umma as well as information about Islam. At the same time, most of these forums are closed or hidden from the outside world and often only accessible through a network of contacts from the real world. In other words, forum members know each other in person. That is why ideological divisions (mostly between Salafīs and more liberal Muslimas) are visible also in the virtual world. This makes many converts unambiguous when it comes to their sense of belonging to the virtual umma: on one side, the virtual umma is their link to other Muslims but, on the other side, they feel misunderstood or even excluded due to the ideological differences within it. |
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| ISSN: | 1569-2086 |
| Contains: | In: Hawwa
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1163/15692086-12341286 |