I was reading an interview of Albert Borgmann when one of his replies to the interviewer stood out. His point about Church life and the technological culture is equally applicable to other religions including Islam. Consider the following excerpt
In church life we talk often of the effects of technological culture. For instance, we are concerned [...]
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People try to avoid face to face interaction with other people if it involve something unpleasent. It seems easier to say or even do things if the person on the other side of the conversation is faceless. To some extent this is the case with telephones. SMS and instant messaging takes this to the next [...]
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The title of the blog is a concatenation of the terms Islamicate and Homo Faber. An explanation of these two terms are in order first. The term Islamicate originated with Marshall Hodgson the following quote from Hodgson, via the Islamicate blog, pretty much explains what it means.
The term Islamicate comes from , who defined [...]
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