Cyber-Islamic Environment in the Religious Field of Kazakhstan

Journal of Islamic Thought and Civilization, 2025

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DOI 10.32350/jitc.152.26
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Abstract

Thanks to the rapid pace of digitalization and modern technological innovations, the boundaries between online and offline spheres of Muslim life are changing. The current study analyzed the emergence of a cyber-Islamic environment in the religious field of Kazakhstan. As a result of the content analysis, the problem of synthesis of secular and religious, national and confessional, traditional and innovative values as the main discourses of the Kazakh segment of the pan-Islamic religious process was revealed. There is low cyber activity of official Islam against rapidly-growing unofficial influence. According to the authors, secular Kazakhstan needs a balanced Islam in the relations of faith and reason, which recognizes modern human rights, the rule of law, social justice, and the priority of human capital development.