Islam in Britain: BBC Religion

Tuesday 12 May 2009

BBC Religion

Telegraph, Controversial Muslim programme-maker to be head of BBC religion, 11 May 09 "Aaqil Ahmed will move to the corporation from Channel Four, where he upset Roman Catholic priests by commissioning documentaries that appeared to contain a pro-Islam bias."

Interesting appointment. Ahmed was also responsible for the Qur'an documentary, and the Christianity, A History series.

Islamic Algorithms

Gary R. Bunt is Professor of Islamic Studies at the University of Wales Trinity Saint David; Principal Investigator for the ESRC funded Digital British Islam project; Co-Investigator for the CHANSE funded Digital Islam Across Europe project.

Prof. Bunt's book Hashtag Islam: How Cyber Islamic Environments are Transforming Religious Authority was published in 2018. A new book, Islamic Algorithms, is out in May 2024.

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