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AuthorMuchtar, Nurhaya
AuthorHamada, Basyouni Ibrahim
AuthorHanitzsch, Thomas
AuthorGalal, Ashraf
AuthorMasduki
AuthorUllah,Mohammad Sahid
Available date2020-09-24T10:49:25Z
Publication Date2017
Publication NameJournalism Studies
ResourceScopus
URIhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1080/1461670X.2017.1279029
URIhttp://hdl.handle.net/10576/16302
AbstractThis paper looks at the extent to which journalistic culture in Muslim-majority countries is shaped by a distinctive Islamic worldview. We identified four principles of an Islamic perspective to journalism: truth and truth-telling (siddiq and haqq), pedagogy (tabligh), seeking the best for the public interest (maslahah), and moderation (wasatiyyah). A survey of working journalists in Africa (Egypt, Sierra Leone, and Sudan), Asia (Bangladesh, Indonesia, Malaysia, Oman, Qatar, Turkey, and the United Arab Emirates), and Europe (Albania and Kosovo) found manifestations of these roles in the investigated countries. The results point to the strong importance of an interventionist approach to journalism-as embodied in the maslahah principle-in most societies. Overall, however, journalists' roles in Muslim-majority countries are not so much shaped by a distinctively Islamic worldview as they were by the political, economic, and socio-cultural contexts.
SponsorThis study was made possible by the Worlds of Journalism Study, Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich; the German Research Foundation; Swiss National Science Foundation.
Languageen
PublisherRoutledge
SubjectIslam
Islamic culture
Islamic view of journalistic roles
Muslim-majority countries
universal journalistic roles
Worlds of Journalism Study
TitleJournalism and the Islamic Worldview: Journalistic roles in Muslim-majority countries
TypeArticle
Pagination555-575
Issue Number5
Volume Number18
dc.accessType Open Access


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