Anna Grasso (UK Team and Website data analysis)
Gary R Bunt (UK Team and Website data analysis)
This archive is part of the Digital Islam Across Europe project’s collection. One of the DigitIslam project outputs focuses on website data and collection analysis. The objective is to identify, catalogue and analyse Muslim organisations’ and actors’ websites (Online Islamic Environments or OIEs) from these different countries.1
This collection showases websites focusing on the digital legacy and online reactions to the deaths of two individuals who, despite their disparate profiles, were both highly influential in their respective fields: Hassan Nasrallah and Ayatollah Sayyid Fadhel Hosseini Al-Milani. Both are Shia Muslims and both passed away in September 2024. The material comes from Muslim OIEs based in the United Kingdom. We did this by using the websites mentioned in our existing Archive (especially the UK-Influential Online Figures, UK-Shia and UK-Media collections).
DigitIslam intends to pursue archiving and examining this collection to develop a more in-depth analysis (for instance, taking into consideration organisations and connections with Irak and Iran). This data can become a useful tool for researchers and the general public who have an interest in digital Islam across Europe as well as those who are mostly focused on the study of the online presence of deceased influential figures. Moreover, the analysis of these sites will be part of a wider project output through presentations and publications.
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- For more information on this: https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/digitalislameurope/research-findings/archiving/ back
