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Introduction
Cyberspace is defined by the Merriam Webster

dictionary as the online world of computer networks
and the internet. (Lemke, 1993) argues, “cyberspace is
the space of interactive computational possibilities. It
is one sense a network that makes all participating
computers and their accessible contents (data,
programs) available to the users of any participating
computer, anywhere. It means that all the information
on earth and every strategy for transforming
information ever conceived anywhere are in principle
available to every user all the time.”
Dialogue is also defined by the Macmillan English
Dictionary 2006, as a process in which two or more
people or group have discussions in other to solve
problems; while interfaith was defined as an adjective
meaning involving people of different religious faiths.
Thus, the topic under discussion can be presented
as the role of the world of internet in bringing people
or group of various religious faiths to discuss issues
they disagree on. This article looks at this topic
through the following subtopics: Islam’s perspective
on dialogue, means of interfaith dialogue before the
cyberspace, advantages of the cyberspace dialogue,
disadvantages of the cyberspace dialogue and the
impact of cyberspace in interfaith dialogue.