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So far as religious education and information is

concerned many a facebook pages have been created for
this purpose. The pages provide much knowledge about
religion The information covers may be with regard to
fiqh, and history, along with religio-political events
happening throughout the Islamic world.
The use of FB and WhatsApp for religious education is
used both formally and informally. Formally is due to
agencies or orgaisations which have created their pages or
accounts with the very purpose of providing religious
education to people. It is now a days found that most of
Institutions have their Facebook accounts.
The FB pages provide all information about the
organization. Similarly, for organization which work for
religious education also disseminate the knowledge
through these page, blogs etc.
There are informal ways of dissemination Islamic
knowledge through FB pages also. These pages/ accounts
are created by individuals. These pages may be group
pages as well. Such pages or accounts provide general
type of information/ education about religion. These
mention the importance of events, festivals etc. e.g. on the
eve of Id ul Azha information text as well as graphic is
provided about history, currents events.
Religio-political events etc. These pages/ accounts also
give biography of Islamic personalities, their role,
contribution in the religious field etc. The pages are also
about current Islamic events of Islamic world which go
beyond the fiqh and history and throw light upon the
contemporary challenges, needs of Muslims in the Islamic
world etc.