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  2. Hamka - Wikipedia

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    Hamka was born on 17 February 1908 in Agam, West Sumatra, the eldest of four siblings. Raised in a family of devout Muslims, his father was Abdul Karim Amrullah, a clerical reformer of Islam in Minangkabau, also known as "Haji Rasul". His mother, Sitti Shafiyah, came from a lineage of Minangkabau artists. His paternal grandfather, Muhammad ...

  3. Institute for Islamic and Social Studies - Wikipedia

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    Location. Bantul, Indonesia. Website. lkis .or .id. The Institute for Islamic and Social Studies ( Indonesian: Lembaga Kajian Islam dan Sosial, LKiS ), is an Indonesian non-governmental organization that was founded on September 3, 1993, in Yogyakarta. [1] The institute stimulates intellectual debate on a grassroots level.

  4. Islam - Wikipedia

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    A Muslim (مُسْلِم), the word for a follower of Islam, [ 14 ] is the active participle of the same verb form, and means "submitter (to God)" or "one who surrenders (to God)". In the Hadith of Gabriel, Islam is presented as one part of a triad that also includes imān (faith), and ihsān (excellence). [ 15 ][ 16 ]

  5. Multimedia studies - Wikipedia

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    Multimedia studies is an interdisciplinary field of academic discourse focused on the understanding of technologies and cultural dimensions of linking traditional media sources with ones based on new media to support social systems.

  6. Digital storytelling - Wikipedia

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    Digital storytelling is a short form of digital media production that allows everyday people to create and share their stories online. The method is frequently used in schools, [1][2][3] museums, [4] libraries, [5] social work and health settings, [6][7] and communities. [8] They are thought to have educational, democratizing [9] and even ...

  7. Prophets and messengers in Islam - Wikipedia

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    The revealed books are the records which Muslims believe were dictated by God to various Islamic prophets throughout the history of mankind, all these books promulgated the code and laws of Islam. The belief in all the revealed books is an article of faith in Islam and Muslims must believe in all the scriptures to be a Muslim. Islam speaks of ...

  8. Social media - Wikipedia

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    The PLATO system was launched in 1960 at the University of Illinois and subsequently commercially marketed by Control Data Corporation.It offered early forms of social media features with innovations such as Notes, PLATO's message-forum application; TERM-talk, its instant-messaging feature; Talkomatic, perhaps the first online chat room; News Report, a crowdsourced online newspaper, and blog ...

  9. Muslims - Wikipedia

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    With about 1.8 billion followers (2015), almost a quarter of earth's population, [109] Islam is the second-largest and the fastest-growing religion in the world, [110] primarily due to the young age and high fertility rate of Muslims, [111] with Muslims having a rate of (3.1) compared to the world average of (2.5).