Islam has no less quickly adopted the Internet than other religious groups; however, specific theological approaches prove more difficult to locate. This stems, in part, from the structure of Islam: Sunni Islam, unlike Shi'a Islam, lacks an organized hierarchy of religious teaching authorities (Sisler, 2011, p. 1138). In the case of Sunni Islam, this, on the one hand, results in fewer official opinions of the kind that bind all adherents; on the other, it leads to a greater number of online sites offering religious advice of varying force and insight. Followers of Shi'a Islam do have access to a hierarchy of religious teaching, but fewer of these appear in English. That language barrier appears across the board and presents another difficulty for the non-specialist in locating Islamic theological approaches. This brief review, then, will describe some of the available resources and will point the interested reader to the work of scholars in this area.
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