IslamOnline has to some extent been a lifestyle publication, focusing on how to mix modern life and religion.

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On Islamonline.net, there is a forum section in which Muslims can pose questions which will be answered by Shariah scholars.

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IslamOnline began in 1997 as a student project at the University of Qatar with cash from Sheikha Mozah, an enterprising wife of Qatar's emir, and with an endorsement from the prominent and sometimes controversial Egyptian-born scholar, Yusuf al-Qaradawi.

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His ideas, notably for tackling Sunni angst over the erosion of traditional religious authority and his attempt to counter millennial strands of Islamism with a conservative reformism, may have lost a resounding voice if he is now kept off IslamOnline.

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