THURSDAY FEBRUARY 13, 2025 | 4:00 PM ET | Zoom Webinar: http://bit.ly/MuslimAIZoom

Join the Global Islamic Studies Center and the Department of History of Art on February 13, 2025 at 4 pm ET online for a lecture by visiting scholar Dr. Christoph Günther (University of Erfurt, Germany) on the growing use of artificial intelligence on Muslim TikTok and social media videos.

Muslim content creators use AI-generated texts and images to illustrate Qur'anic passages and hadith narrations, creating visually engaging content to promote ethical guidance and pious conduct. We discuss how AI technologies mediate religious expression in the digital age and the implications of blending sacred and secular visual vocabularies in the pursuit of piety. This is the second event in the GISC “Muslims in the Digital Age” series.

Christoph Günther has a background in Islamic Studies, Arabic and History and is currently conducting research on the ways in which Muslim actors employ (moving) images on social media platforms to articulate their interpretation of how Islam should be lived, proclaimed and interpreted. He combines his media analyses with an ethnographic approach to the ways in which Muslim practitioners engage with such imagery in the course of their religious and media practices

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Cosponsor: Department of History of Art

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