Special Reports | General Resources | Bibliographies & Glossaries
Hadith | Art & Architecture | Music | Law | Philosophy & Science
Qur'an | Shi'ah | Sufism | Sunnah | Tafsir | Women
Islam

Special Reports & Declarations
- The Future of the Global Muslim Population (2011) -and-
Mapping the Global Muslim Population. (2009)
The Pew Forum on Religion & Public Life - Muslim-Americans: Faith, Freedom, and the Future. (2011) ;
Measuring the State of Muslim-West Relations. (2010) -and-
Muslim Americans: A National Portrait. (2009)
Abu Dhabi Gallup Center, United Arab Emirates. - Islam and the Question of violence
By Seyyed Hossein Nasr. From Al-Serat: a journal of Islamic studies.
Hosted by Ahlul Bayt Digital Islamic Library Project (UK). - Scholars of Islam & the Tragedy of Sept. 11th
Study of Islam Section, American Academy of Religion - Universal Islamic Declaration of Human Rights (1981)
Al-Hewaar Center: the Center for Arab Culture and Dialogue (Washington, DC)
General Resources
- Al-Islam.com
Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, Ministry of Islamic Affairs, Endowments, Da‘wah and Guidance.
In Arabic, English, French, German, Malay, and Turkish. - Al-Islam.org
Ahlul Bayt Digital Islamic Library Project (UK ; Qom, Iran)
A comprehensive site, with a very good subject index. - al-Khazina - The Library
Edited by Prof. Jerome W. Clinton.
Princeton University, Dept. of Near Eastern Studies
A collection of Web Sites on Islam and Islamic History used in Near East Studies courses at Princeton University.
- ALMISBAH: Database of Online Resources on The Middle East and Islam (The State- and University Library Saxony-Anhalt, Halle, Germany)
Part of MENALIB: Middle East Virtual Library.
- Cordoba Initiative: Improving Muslim-West Relations
Sharia Index Project, Women's Islamic Initiative in Spirituality and Equality, etc.: Founder Imam Feisal Abdul Rauf, 2009 - Internet Islamic History Sourcebook (2007)
Paul Halsall et al., Fordham University (New York, NY) - Islam Online (United Kingdom)
- Islamic Studies, Arabic and Religion Web Page
By Alan Godlas, University of Georgia - IslamiCity.Com (Culver City, CA)
A major portal for Islamic information and discussion fora, Quranic texts and recitation audio files, subscription-based services, plus prayer times. - IslamWeb: Islamic Studies Internet Guide
University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
Bibliographies & Glossaries
- Bibliography on Islam in Contemporary Subsaharan Africa (2006)
Paul Schrijver, African Studies Center (Leiden, Netherlands)
- Glossary of Islamic Terms and Concepts
Center for Religion & Civic Culture, University of Southern California (Los Angeles, CA)
- Islam and Ecology Bibliography (1999)
Richard Foltz, University of Florida
Annotations by The Forum on Religion and Ecology (2004) - Islamic Canonical Texts
Abed Aladien, Columbia University Libraries (New York, NY) - Islamic Law: a Bibliography of recent Works Published in English (2009)
Constance A. Johnson, Library of Congress (Washington, DC) - Rizwi's Bibliography for Medieval Islam (2006)
Rizwi S. Faizer, PhD - A Selective Bibliography of Hadith Studies (1995)
Behnam Sadeghi, Andreas Goerke, Christopher Melchert
Hadith
- Hadith database from al Islam.com
In Arabic, English, and other languages.
Searchable, comprehensive database from Saudi Arabia Minister of Islamic Affairs and Awqaf. - The Forty Hadiths of al-Nawawi
Hosted by the Internet Archive.
In Arabic and English translation.
With comments by Dr. Jamal Ahmed Badi, International Islamic University, Malaysia.
- SacredHadith.com: Forty Hadith Qudsi
ProjectNur Network (UK)
In Arabic, with audio, and English translation.
- Religious Texts: Sunnah and Hadith
Center for Muslim-Jewish Engagement, University of Southern California (Los Angeles, CA)
Islamic Art & Architecture
- ArchNet
An international online community for architects, planners, urban designers, landscape architects, conservationists, and scholars, with a focus on Muslim cultures and civilisations.
- Islamic Architecture in Egypt
Egypt Architecture Online
- Discover Islamic Art
Museum With No Frontiers (Brussels, Belgium) - Islamic Art
Professor Christopher L.C.E. Witcombe, Sweet Briar College (Sweet Briar, VA)
- Islamic Art and Architecture
MuslimHeritage.com - Islamic Art: Selected Works
Department of Islamic Art, Musee du Louvre (Paris, France)
- Passport to Paradise: Visualizing Islam in West Africa and the Mouride Diaspora
UCLA Fowler Museum of Cultural History, University of California, Los Angeles
Music & Islam
- Muslim Voices: Arts & Ideas
Website of the first Muslim Arts Festival in NY, June 5-14, 2009. - Muslim World Music Day (ARChive of Contemporary Music, Columbia University Libraries, New York)
Since April 12, 2011, an online effort to identify and catalog all the recordings of Muslim music in the world. - Performance, Politics, Piety: Music as Debate in Muslim Societies of North Africa, West Asia, South Asia and their Diasporas
University of Leeds (UK)
Addresses academic and cultural discussions of the significance of music in the development, perception, and understanding of Islam. - A Topic of Dispute in Islam: Music (1995)
By Mustafa Sabri. From Anadolu. Translated from the Turkish original, published in Beyan-ul-Haq, 1910. - Turath.org
Analysis, reviews, and resources for traditional Arab music worldwide.
Islamic Law
- Centre of Islamic and Middle Eastern Law: CIMEL
School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London (UK) - The development of ijtihad and Islamic reform, 1750-1850
Knut S. Vikor, University of Bergen (Norway)
From the Third Nordic Conference on Middle Eastern Studies, Joensuu, Finland, 19-22 June 1995 - Islamic Family Law
Emory Law School - Issues in Jewish and Muslim Relations
Center for Muslim-Jewish Engagement, University of Southern California (Los Angeles, CA) - Karamah: Muslim Women Lawyers for Human Rights
- Researching Islamic law: Malaysian sources
Shaikh Mohamed Noordin
From GlobaLex, Hauser Global Law School Program, New York University School of Law
Islamic Philosophy & Science
- Arabic and Islamic Psychology and Philosophy of Mind
Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, Stanford University (Stanford, CA)
- Averroes
William Turner, The Catholic Encyclopedia
Via New Advent - Avicebron
William Turner, The Catholic Encyclopedia
Via New Advent - Avicenna
William Turner, The Catholic Encyclopedia
Via New Advent - Center for Islam and Science (Sherwood Park, Alberta, Canada)
- Al Farabi
Encyclopedia Iranica, Columbia University (New York, NY)
- Al Ghazali
Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, Stanford University (Stanford, CA)
- Ikhwan al Safa
Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, Stanford University (Stanford, CA)
- Islamic Medical Manuscripts
National Library of Medicine (Bethesda, MD) - Islamic Philosophy Online
Islamic Philosophy Online, Inc.
The site features: a dictionary of Islamic philosophical terms; an extensive list of major philosophers, their thought, and their works; tables of contents for The Journal of Islamic Philosophy; and related web links. - Kindi (al-)
Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, Stanford University (Stanford, CA)
Qur'an
- Dawat-e-Islami: Islamic Propagational Movement of Quran & Sunnah (Karachi, Pakistan)
- The Holy Quran : al-Quran al-Karim
Masood Hashemi
- Religious Texts: The Qur'an
Center for Muslim-Jewish Engagement
University of Southern California (Los Angeles, CA) - Search the Koran
Humanities Text Initiative, University of Michigan - Search the Qur'an or Hadith
Center for Muslim-Jewish Engagement
University of Southern California (Los Angeles, CA)
Shi'ah
Sufism
- International Association of Sufism (Novato, CA)
A nonprofit NGO/DPI of the United Nations
- Islamic Sufi Orders on the World Wide Web
Fariduddien Rice (Sydney, Australia) - Khanqah Qadiriya Razviya: Sunni Razvi Society
- Maktab Tariqhat Oveyssi Shahmaghsoudi: School of Islamic Sufism
- The Muhyiddin Ibn al-'Arabi Society (Berkeley, California, USA & Oxford, UK)
- Khâdimu-R-Rasûl: Le Serviteur Privilégé du Prophète (Paix et Salut sur Lui) (Touba, Sénégal)
Hizbut Tarquiyyah
Muridiyya or Mouride Brotherhood on the Internet - Naqshbandi Sufi Way
The Naqshbandi-Haqqani Sufi Order of America
- Qadiri Rifai Sufi Order (USA and Turkey)
- Sufi Traditions
By Zos Imos
Hosted by The Gnosis Archive: Gnostic Studies on the Web
- Sufism, Sufis and Sufi Orders: Sufism's many paths
Alan Godlas, University of Georgia - Themes of the "Erotic" in Sufi Mysticism
By Jonah Winters, Bahá'í Library Online (USA) - Tijaniyya or Tijani Sufi Islam
- Tariqa Tijaniyya (USA)
- Tidjaniya.com (Lyon, France)
The official website of the Tidjaniya Way (Tariqa Tijaniyya).
- Tariqa Tijaniyya (USA)
- Underground Friends of God and Their Adversaries: a Case Study and Survey of Sufism in Contemporary Yemen (1997)
David Buchman, State University of New York, Stony Brook
From Yemen Update, "Yemen Webdate Archive", American Institute for Yemeni Studies
Sunnah
- as-Sunnah Foundation of America
- On the Obligation to Accept the Authority of the Prophet
By Imam Ash-Shaafi`ee; translated by M. Khadduri
Islamic Texts Society (UK)
Tafsir (Qur'an explanation)
- Qur'an Tafsir
Abdur Raheem as-Saranbi - Altafsir.com
Royal Aal al-Bayt Institute for Islamic Thought
Women
- Issues: Women
Center for Muslim-Jewish Engagement
University of Southern California (Los Angeles, CA) - Jannah.org: Resources for and about Muslim Women
- Karamah: Muslim Women Lawyers for Human Rights
- Muslim Women's League (Los Angeles, CA)

