Dr. Amina Inloes at the ICAIR Conference 2025, Jaffari Community Centre, Toronto.
Speaker
Dr. Amina Inloes is a lecturer at The Islamic College in the United Kingdom. She is the author of Women in Shiʿism: Ancient Stories, Modern Ideologies. She holds a PhD in Arab and Islamic Studies from the University of Exeter.
In this talk
- 0:00 · Current Internet Context: AI, Scholars, and Muslim Attitudes
- 1:21 · The Internet as the Case Study
- 1:43 · First Encounters: Early Internet + Muslim Chatrooms
- 3:10 · Timeline Overview: General Internet History vs Muslim Online History
- 5:11 · Internet vs AI: Muslims as Builders, Not Just Users
- 7:50 · Early Internet Values: Freedom of Information
- 9:51 · Access to Islamic Knowledge: Digital Libraries and Source Texts
- 11:14 · Minority Support + Da‘wah + Shi‘i Visibility Online
- 14:42 · Islamic Media Boom: Lectures, Audio/Video, and Rising Literacy
- 15:50 · “Celebrity Shaykh” Culture and Shifting Religious Authority
- 19:39 · Social Media Era: Women’s Voices, Metrics, and Self-Promotion
- 25:00 · Search Engines, Algorithms, and Information Bias
- 29:17 · AI Era: Globalization, Inequality, and Palestine as a Case Study
- 33:46 · Closing Remarks: Be Aware of the Medium Shaping You