{"id":35166,"date":"2022-12-01T08:00:00","date_gmt":"2022-12-01T07:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pluriel.fuce.eu\/article\/islamic-perceptions-of-the-pandemic-between-divine-decree-and-political-plot\/"},"modified":"2026-07-07T14:56:39","modified_gmt":"2026-07-07T13:56:39","slug":"islamic-perceptions-of-the-pandemic-between-divine-decree-and-political-plot","status":"publish","type":"article","link":"https:\/\/pluriel.fuce.eu\/en\/article\/islamic-perceptions-of-the-pandemic-between-divine-decree-and-political-plot\/","title":{"rendered":"Islamic Perceptions of the Pandemic: Between Divine Decree and Political Plot"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Article by <a href=\"https:\/\/pluriel.fuce.eu\/chercheur\/paolo-gonzaga\/?lang=en\"><strong>Paolo Gonzaga<\/strong><\/a> published in English under the title <em>Islamic Perceptions of the Pandemic: Between Divine Decree and Political Plot<\/em> in the journal <em>Annali di Scienze Religiose<\/em> (vol. 15, 2022), published by the Department of Religious Sciences of the Catholic University of the Sacred Heart in Milan (Brepols).<\/p><p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The article analyses how the Covid-19 pandemic was perceived and interpreted in the Arab-Muslim world and its media, between the religious reading of a divine decree (<em>qadar<\/em>) and political conspiracy theories.<\/p>","protected":false},"featured_media":14009,"template":"","class_list":["post-35166","article","type-article","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"date_tournage":"","yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Islamic Perceptions of the Pandemic: Between Divine Decree and Political Plot - Pluriel<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/pluriel.fuce.eu\/article\/islamic-perceptions-of-the-pandemic-between-divine-decree-and-political-plot\/?lang=en\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Islamic Perceptions of the Pandemic: Between Divine Decree and Political Plot - Pluriel\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Article by Paolo Gonzaga published in English under the title Islamic Perceptions of the Pandemic: Between Divine Decree and Political Plot in the journal Annali di Scienze Religiose (vol. 15, 2022), published by the Department of Religious Sciences of the Catholic University of the Sacred Heart in Milan (Brepols). 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