<![CDATA[This article examines the transformation in Quraish Shihab's delivery of Qur'anic exegesis on Surah Al-'Aṣr from television to digital format, by comparing the 2004 broadcast of Kajian Tafsir Al-Mishbah on MetroTV — accessed via a third-party re-upload on YouTube — and an episode of Shihab & Shihab produced natively on YouTube in 2022. Drawing on a comparative content analysis of Shihab's utterances, delivery structure, and interpretive emphases across both videos, this study yields three findings. First, the television format positions Shihab within an expository, pedagogical-televisual logic, while the digital format shifts him toward a more concise and personal dialogic-digital logic. Second, the change in medium produces semantic compression: the fundamental structure of interpretation is retained, but linguistic detail is reduced and explanatory emphasis is redirected toward practical values that are immediately relevant to the digital audience's experience. Third, Shihab's interpretive authority does not diminish upon entering the digital space; rather, it undergoes reconfiguration — shifting from authority built through expansive exposition to authority built through communicative proximity and the capacity to condense meaning. These findings enrich the study of the mediatization of religion and digital religious authority by demonstrating how a single exegete, a single surah, and two distinct media can serve as an entry point for reading the negotiation between the substance of Qur'anic interpretation and media logic.]]>
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