Academic Resources on Islam

Major Islamic Resources Sites

• Al Muhaddith Islamic Library

• Islam - Resources and Information

Qur'an Sites

• Transliteration of the Arabic text into Latin characters: [1], [2], [3]

• Arabic script: [1], [2]

• Arabic recitation: [1], [2], [3], [4]

• Easy Recite Arabic

• Holy Qur'an Resources on the Internet and Qur'an Info

Search engines:

Qur'an Browser

• 17 English translations in parallel

• Qur'an Explorer

• Qur'an Online

• multi-media Qur'an engine

• Yusuf Ali, Pickthall, Shakir

• Shakir [Shia] [1], [2]

• Dutch, English, French, German, Spanish

• Qur'an Search Site [for windows and to be downloaded to your computer before you can use it]

• Translations of the Qur'an by language and translator:

• Several languages

• Bosnian

• Chinese: 1, 2

• Dutch

English:
    Parallel Yusuf Ali & Pickthall & Shakir [2]
    Yusuf Ali ([Saudi corrected version])
    Muhammad Asad ([The Message of The Quran with footnotes])
    Maulvi Sher Ali [Ahmadiyya] ([1], [2], [3])
    Rashad Khalifa ([1], [2])
    Al-Hilali & Khan [Wahhabi] ([1], [2])
    Pickthall ([1])
    E.H. Palmer ([by chapter], [complete Qur'an [800K]])
    A.J. Arberry ([1])
    Muhammad Sarwar [Shia] ([1], [2])
    Shakir [Shia] ([1], [2], [3])
    Amatul Rahman Omar & Abdul Mannan Omar ([1])
    T.B. Irving ([1], large, complete text on one page)
    Maulana Wahiduddin Khan ([1])

French: Muhammad Hamidullah ([1], [2])

German: Ahmadiyya ([1]), Mohammed Rassoul ([1])

• Italian

Spanish: Julio Cortés ([1])

• Swahili

• Thai

Turkish: [1], [2], [[750K]]

• Arabic Comparative Concordance to Bible and Qur'an

• Qur'an Dictionary (in several languages)

• Qur'an index: [1], [2], [3], [4], [5]

• Glossaries/dictionaries of Islamic terms: [1], [2], [3] [4], [5], [6], [7], [8], [9]

• Arabic-English Dictionaries (for the Qur'an and general)

Tafsir:

• Al-Tafsir.com has most classical commentaries on the Qur'an (Arabic only) but some are available in English as well (e.g. Jalalayn and Ibn Abbas)

• Tafsir Ibn Kathir (Abridged) [1], [2]

• Syed Abu-Ala' Maududi's Chapter Introductions to the Qur'an: [1], [2], [3]

• Maududi's commentary on the Qur'an (Tafheem ul Quran): [1], [2], [3]

Hadith Sites

• THE Sunnah and Hadith Site with Search Engine for all Hadith collections together

• More general hadith (link) sites: [1] [1]

• Another search engine

• Sahih Bukhari: English Translations by M. Muhsin Khan and Aisha Bewley (with different numbering systems). Search sites only: [3], [4]

• Sahih Muslim: [1], [2]

• Sunan Abu-Dawud: [1], [2]

• Muwatta Malik: [1], [2]

• Hadith Qudsi: [1]

Special collections:

• Imam an-Nawawi's Fourty Hadith: [*, *]

• 500 Ahadith: [1], [2], [3]

• Riyad As-Salihin: [1]

• The Hadith Page

• Fabricated Hadith

• Evaluation of some commonly quoted hadith

• More Hadith pages and links: [*]

• Hadith in Arabic (commercial site)

Other Muslim Traditions

• The Last Sermon of Muhammad:
  Sunni version (Full: [1], [2], abridged: [1], [2], [3], [4], actually, there are three Sunni Versions: [1], [2])
  Shia version ([1])

• Western scholarship on Ghadir Khumm

• Authentic supplications of the prophet

• Prayer site: Salat

• Life of Muhammad (biography/history/hagiography): [1], [2], [3], [3a], [3b], [4], [5], [6], [7], [8], [9]

• Muhammad: [*, *]

• The First Four Caliphs, later, many, last, and current(??)

• Lives of the Sahaba: [1], [2], [3], [4], [5], [6], [7]

• Islamic History, Philosophy, and Scientific Thought

• Biographies of Khalifa, Sahaba, scholars of Islam

• A Brief History of Islam

• A Restatement of the History of Islam and Muslims (Shi`a view)

Calendar Conversion sites: [1], [2], [3], [4], [5]

• Hijra moon calendar (detailed discussion of various issues)

• Islamic Law

Islamic schools of jurisprudence

• General overview: [1]

• Hanafi: [1]

• Maliki: [1]

• Shafi'i: The Reliance of the Traveller

• Related issues: *

Special Sites

• Bibliography of Hadith Studies

• Bibliograph of (Medieval) Islamic Theology

• Spread of Islam

• Islamic Quiz

• The Mother of all Websites (Saddam Hussein's Fan Club)

• Calligraphy

• Islamic Art

• Islamic Art

• Arabic and Islamic Architecture

• Arabic Islamic Graphics

• The World's Largest Qur'an

• More links on art: [*, *, *]

• Arabic Poems: [*, *]

• Islamic Coins: [*, *]

• The Cultural Academy of Islam

• American Open University

• Harvard's Center for Middle Eastern Studies

• Islamica Collection at UCB

• Islamic and Middle Eastern Law Materials on the Net

• Other Middle Eastern Studies sites on the Web

• Centre for Middle Eastern Studies

• Encyclopaedia of the Orient

• First Things - A Journal of Religion and Public Life

• Pakistani culture in the UK

• History of Islamic Medicine

• Islamic Law Related Materials by CIMEL (Centre of Islamic & Middle Eastern Law)

• Medieval History Texts (Islam section) (Fordham University)

• The Electronic Journal of Middle East Studies

• Iranian Links collection

• Tour Egypt [Sites, History, Religion]

• International Muslimah Artist Net

• The Minaret of Freedom

• Tariq's Islam Page with "Islamic History" and Calender etc.

• International Institute of Islamic Thought

• MSANEWS ScholarBase

• The Islamic Finder

• Organization of Islamic Countries: Data, Trade

• Islamic Party of Britain

• Horizons Media Homepage

• Al Mashriq - The Levant: An Arabic Culture site

• Yahala -- Directory of the Middle East

• Justice in the Middle East

• Current Affairs of Muslims

• Islam in the United States

• Islamic Affairs Department -- Saudi Embassy page

Arabic Software:

• Viewing Arabic Web Pages: [1], [2]

• Amr's Arabic Archive

• Islamic Programs & Applications

• Arabic on the Internet

• Arabic Software Map

• Sakhr Software

• ARAMedia, Arabization & Software Center

• Arabic, Persian, Hebrew Adobe Page Maker Software

• Urdu Fonts

• Inaam Alvi Computers

• Imran Hussain's Free Software

Islamic Publishers and Bookstores:

• IslamicBookstore.com

• Pak Books on Islam & the Middle East

• The Online Islamic Bookstore

• Ilm Islamic Bookstore

• Gardens of Knowledge

• Dar Al-Fikr Publishing

• Islamic Texts Society

• Halalco Books

• Astrolabe

• MeccaCentric Da'wah Group

• Treasury of Islamic Products

• Al Nadi - International Book Club

• Sufi Book Catalog

• ICNA Book Service

• Quill Publishers / Dar Taiba

• The Islamic Book Company

• Sound Vision

• International Books & Tapes Supply

• Ihlas Nur Publications

• Qur'an and Islamic Books

• Green Street Books

• Amanah Books Online

• Islamic Gateway Bookshop

• Farmost - Pakistan Books

• Islamic Dawah Centre

• An Extensive Worldwide List of Islamic Book-sellers

• Books on Islam and the Islamic World (expensive antiques mostly)

• Answering Islam Home Page