Memorizing the Sacred in the Digital Age: Exploring Qur’an Memorization Experiences Using Physical & Digital Formats

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dc.contributor.advisorGolbeck, Jennifer Aen_US
dc.contributor.authorKabir, Arif Abdalen_US
dc.contributor.departmentLibrary & Information Servicesen_US
dc.contributor.publisherDigital Repository at the University of Marylanden_US
dc.contributor.publisherUniversity of Maryland (College Park, Md.)en_US
dc.date.accessioned2021-07-14T05:38:54Z
dc.date.available2021-07-14T05:38:54Z
dc.date.issued2021en_US
dc.description.abstractFor centuries, millions of Muslims have been memorizing the entirety of the Qur’an, the holy scripture of Islam that provides guidance to its believers and contains over seventy-seven thousand words in Arabic. This study explores the present-day experiences of these adherents who utilize traditional and digital methods to commit the Qur’an to memory and investigates whether the experience changes when using the different formats. The research instruments include multiple questionnaires, a monthlong diary study involving two weeks of memorization with a digital device and two weeks with a physical Qur’an and interviews with twenty-three participants. The study offers findings that include reported differences in difficulty, sentiments, and sense of connection to God, insights into the prevalent benefits and challenges of digital and traditional scriptural memorization and design suggestions on tools and methods to improve the experience of memorizing the Qur’an with both formats.en_US
dc.identifierhttps://doi.org/10.13016/3bt0-wqpj
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/1903/27487
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.subject.pqcontrolledInformation scienceen_US
dc.subject.pqcontrolledIslamic studiesen_US
dc.subject.pqcontrolledReligious educationen_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolledDigitalen_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolledFormaten_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolledHifzen_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolledMemorizationen_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolledQuranen_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolledScriptureen_US
dc.titleMemorizing the Sacred in the Digital Age: Exploring Qur’an Memorization Experiences Using Physical & Digital Formatsen_US
dc.typeThesisen_US

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