Faith in the Digital Age: The Rise of Islamic Fundamentalism and the Plurality of Young Muslims' Piety on Social Media

Abstract

Islamic fundamentalism has undergone a significant transformation of the movement along with the emergence of social media. The presence of a new pattern of Islamic fundamentalism is influenced by young preachers who have succeeded in building religious authority through digital Islamic creative content that contains ideas about political Islam, hijrah da’wah, and salafism ideology. This article aims to analyze the interplay between the genealogy of the movement and the typology of Islamic fundamentalist thought, hijrah da’wah, and the plurality of millennial Muslim piety. This qualitative research uses literature studies, which its operationalization was done by examining, identifiying, and finding a gap from references on related topics. Subsequentlyas well as analyzing digital content to find out the factors that affect the formation of millennial Muslim piety. This article finds that the transformation of the Islamic fundamentalism movement through hijrah da’wah on social media contributes to shaping the piety of Muslim adolescents into three typologies, namely scripturalist piety, popular piety, and progressive piety. The phenomenon of global fundamentalism, the fragmentation of religious authority, and the response to the challenges of modernity are the factors that led to the emergence of the plurality of piety. Although the plurality of piety has implications for polarization with one another, Islamic da’wah in the digital era provides an alternative source of religious learning for millennial Muslims.