"Purpose driven, virtuous expressions of Technology consistent with the idiosyncratic blend of fiqh, tasawwuf and muhasabah are possible but invariably will have to move away from algorithmically driven expressions of form." "At a very basic and fundamental level, Islamicate civilization is suited to being a text-based culture... However, the basic layer of such a civilization is epistemic sovereignty... lay people with a background in secular education but an autodidactic/hobbyist interest in the Islamic sciences must compose their works independently." View article →