Related Resources

These links contain valuable information and tools for the study of Islam and Islamic history. Opinions clearly belong to the site owners; proceed with sensitivity.

Islam

• Aisha 'Abdur Rahman Bewley's Home Pages (First woman to translate the entire Qur'an into English. The sites contain generous quatities of other texts in translation from both the Islamic sciences and Sufism. Her two repository pages can be found here and here.)
• American Muslims
  • American Muslims Reflect on Muhammad (Jameel William Johnson)
  • American Muslims Reflect on Muhammad (Najah Bazzy)
  • American Muslims Reflect on Muhammad (Ingrid Mattson)
• AMILA (American Muslims Intent on Learning and Activism)
• An Introduction to Islam (an article by M. C. Bassiouini from the George Camp Keiser Library)
• Bawa Muhaiyaddeen Fellowship (Overbook Mosque)
• Directions to the Overbrook Mosque (Bawa Muhaiyaddeen Fellowship)
• Beliefnet
• CAIR (condemning terrorism)
• Converts to Islam (page devoted to conversion)
• The Work in Poetry, Theater and Art of Daniel Abdal-Hayy Moore
• Dogs and Islamic Law (from various sources)
• Fatwas (Legal responsa from Muslim scholars)
• Gender Equity in Islam (written from a modern muslim perspective by Dr. Jamal Badawi)
• Internet Islamic History Sourcebook
• Iran Mania (internet portal)
• Irshad Manji (author of The Trouble with Islam)
• Islamic Finder  (to locate mosques and Islamic Centers nationwide)
• Islamic Information Office (Honolulu, HI)
• Islamic Resources (at latif.com)
• King Fahd Center for Middle East and Islamic Studies (University of Arkansas)
• Masud (extensive British site featuring articles by Nuh Ha Mim Keller, Abdal-Hakim Murad, and others)
• Middle East Studies Association Bulletin
• Mosque Finder (locate any mosque in United States and Canada)
• Muslim WakeUp!
• Musim Women Lawyers for Human Rights
• Muslim Women's League
• The Nation of Islam Home Page
• Princeton Foundations of Classic Islamic Civilization (Al-Khazina)
• Progressive Muslim Groups
• Salat (Islamic prayers: times, location and general information)
• The Shia Home Page
• United Muslim Women's Association (Australian muslim women's association)
• Zaytuna Institute (educational programs, materials, and training in the traditional sciences of Islam, with articles by Hamza Yusuf and others)

Islamic Studies Scholars

• Alan Godlas' Islamic Studies, Arabic and Religion Resources Page (See also Dr. Godlas' Sufis, Sufism and Sufi Orders page linked below. University of Georgia, Athens.)
• Amir Hussain Home Page (California State University, Northridge)
• Carl W. Ernst Home Page (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill)
• David Power's Islamic History Course Page (Cornell University)
• Jamal J. Elias Home Page (Amherst College)
• Khaled Abou El Fadl Home Page (Professor of Law, UCLA)
• Michael Sells Home Page (Haverford College, with information on current issues in the Muslim world, his courses on Islam, and many other essential links for Islamic Studies)
• Omid Safi Home Page (Colgate University)
• Roger Allen Home Page (Arabic and Arabic Literature at Penn)

Food

• Nanee's Kitchen Halal Sufi restaurant (and catering) in Philadelphia

Sufism

• Alan Godlas' Sufism, Sufis and Sufi Orders Page (University of Georgia, Athens)
• As-Sunnah Foundation of America
• Haqqani Sufi Foundation
• Hazrat Nizamuddin Spiritual Foundation
• Halveti-Jerrahi Order of Dervishes
• Islamic Sufi Orders on the World Wide Web
• Mevlana Jalaluddin Rumi (Turkish page with images and music)
• Muhyiddin Ibn Arabi Society
• Murabitun of North America
• Naqshbandiya Foundation for Islamic Education
• Nimatullahi Sufi Order
• Ni'matullahi Safi 'Ali Shahi
• Sufi Writings (of Shaykh 'Abd al-Qadir al-Jilani, d. 1166)
• The Naqshbandi Sufi Order
• The Qadiri-Rifai Sufi Order
• The Threshold Society and the Mevlevi Sufi Order

Maps of the Middle East and Islamic History

These maps are for my classes' one-time educational use. If you want to reproduce them in any way, you must contact the books' publishers as given here. Please do not email me about them.

• Distribution of Sunni/Shi'a on World Map
• Maps from W.C Brice, An Historical Atlas of Islam (Leiden, 1981)
• Maps from R. Roolvink et al, Historical Atlas of the Muslim Peoples (Amsterdam, 1957)

Music

• Richard Thompson Home Page
• Yusuf Islam (Cat Stevens) Music: A Question of Faith or Da'wah?

Research

• A Brief Chronology of Muslim  History
• "A Glossary of Jewish, Christian and Islamic Terms" (by Robert A. Kraft, Professor, Religious Studies Department, University of Pennsylvania)
• Arabic Transliteration System (Library of Congress)
• Islamica (University of California, Berkeley)
• MEDOC (The Middle East Documentation Center of the University of Chicago)
• Ottoman Empire Information (Turkish Site with English Translation)
• University of Chicago Library: Middle East Section
• University of Texas - Middle East Network Information Center
• Women and Society: An Encyclopaedic Internet Dictionary of Ideas, Concepts, Theories and Praxis - An Internet Reference Project on the World Wide Web

Online Texts

• Al-Ajwiba al-Jaliya by Muhammad b. Abdallah al-Jurdani
• Al-Fiqh al-Akbar (attributed to Abu Hanifah, d. 767 CE)
• Essential Resources for Islamic Studies (Compiled by Knut S. Vikor)
• "Choose to do God's Will": An Islamic Explanation of Free Will and Determinism from Amir 'Abd al-Qadir b. Muhyi al-Din al-Jaza'iri's Dhikra al-'aqil wa tanbih al-ghafil

Arabic Language Study

• Arabic Studies in Damascus (Syrian Studies Association)
• Arabic Language Institute (Fez, Morocco)
• Arabic Study Programs in the Arab World (B.R. von Schlegell and J. Hayes)

Images

• Hijab and Other Headcoverings from Around the World (Please be patient - this page contains two large animated image files and will load very slowly if you are not connected through the University of Pennsylvania network.)
• Isfahan Home Page
• Islamic Art Network
• Islamic Monuments in Egypt
• Rules of Tajwid (Qur'anic recitation, Arabic chart)
• Safwa and Marwa
• The Hajj: A Graphical Representation
• The Kaaba
• The Peter Sanders Gallery (Photographs of the Islamic world)

Judaism

• Judaism and Jewish Resources
• Orthodox Union

Religious Texts

• The Bible: Multiple Versions
• Entire Qur'an Recited by Shaykh Khalil al-Husari (audio instruction provided)
• Hadith Collections (Bukhari, Muslim, Abu Dawud, Imam Malik's Muwatta, and hadith qudsi)
• The Qur'an Database (with links to the Qur'an in English translation)

News

• Ad-Dustour (Jordanian Arabic Daily - in Arabic)
• Al-Jazeera (in Ararbic)
• Africa News on the World Wide Web
• Khaleej Times Online
• San Francisco Chronicle
• The Jerusalem Post Daily Internet Edition
• The Kathmandu Post
• The New York Times on the Web (registration required)

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