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• U.S. Muslims in 2017
  --The World's Muslims in 2013 --and- 2012
  --The Future of the Global Muslim Population (2011)
  --Muslim-Americans: No Signs of Growth in Alientation or Support for Extremism (2011)
  --Mapping the Global Muslim Population. (2009)
  The Pew Research Center on Religion & Public Life, Washington, DC.
  
• Perceptions of Muslims in the United States: A Review (2015)
  Gallup Inc., Washingon, DC.
• Muslim-Americans: Faith, Freedom, and the Future. (2011) ;
  Measuring the State of Muslim-West Relations. (2010) -and-
  Muslim Americans: A National Portrait. (2009) --via dec17.org
  Abu Dhabi Gallup Center, United Arab Emirates.
• Scholars of Islam & the Tragedy of Sept. 11th (2001)
  Study of Islam Section, American Academy of Religion. Omid Safi, Colgate University, Hamilton, New York.
• Universal Islamic Declaration of Human Rights (1981)
  Al-Hewaar Center: the Center for Arab Culture and Dialogue, Washington, DC.

• 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.
• The Brookings Institution: "Rethinking Political Islam" Project (Washington, DC)
     "...to systematically assess the evolution of mainstream Islamist groups across 12 country cases—Egypt, Tunisia, Morocco, Syria, Yemen, Libya, Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Jordan, and Pakistan, as well as Malaysia and Indonesia."
• Caribbean Muslims
  A rich web site for news about Islam in the Caribbean region, with articles on history and culture since 2007.
  
• Euro-Islam.info (Group Sociétés, Religions, Laïcités, Paris, France; Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA)
  "News and analysis on Islam in Europe and North America."
• Islamic Heritage Project (Harvard University Library Open Collections Program & Prince Alwaleed bin Talal Islamic Studies Program, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA)
  "...digital copies of over 280 manuscripts, 275 printed texts, and 50 maps...from the 10th to the 20th centuries CE...from Saudi Arabia, North Africa, Egypt, Syria, Lebanon, Palestine, Iran, Iraq, Turkey, and South, Southeast, and Central Asia."
• IslamiCommentary (Duke University Islamic Studies Center, Durham, North Carolina; University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, North Carolina, USA)
  "A forum for public scholarship": articles, news analysis, and video interviews with scholars.
• Islamopedia Online (Prince Alwaleed bin Talal Islamic Studies Program at Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA)
  News analysis and opinion.
• 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)
• 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

• Bibliography on Islam in Contemporary Subsaharan Africa
  Paul Schrijver, African Studies Center (Leiden, Netherlands)
  
• Islam and Ecology Bibliography 
  Richard Foltz, University of Florida
  Annotations by The Forum on Religion and Ecology 
• Islamic Canonical Texts
  Abed Aladien, Columbia University Libraries (New York, NY)
• Islamic Law: a Bibliography of recent Works Published in English 
  Constance A. Johnson, Library of Congress (Washington, DC)
• Rizwi's Bibliography for Medieval Islam 
  Rizwi S. Faizer, PhD

• 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)
  

• 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
  

• 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.

• 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

• 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)
  
  • Annotated Bibliography
  • Major Voices in Islam and Science
    
  • Through the Ages
    
• 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)
  

• Dawat-e-Islami: Islamic Propagational Movement of Quran & Sunnah (Karachi, Pakistan)
• 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)
  

• Al-Islam.org: Ahlul Bayt Digital Islamic Library Project
  
• SIPRIn: Sadra Islamic Philosophy Research Institute (Iran)
• Supreme Islamic Shi'te Council, Lebanon

• 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)
• 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).
• 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
  

• 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)

• Qur'an Tafsir
  Abdur Raheem as-Saranbi
• Altafsir.com
  Royal Aal al-Bayt Institute for Islamic Thought
  

• Jannah.org: Resources for and about Muslim Women
  
• Karamah: Muslim Women Lawyers for Human Rights
• Ligue française de la femme musulmane (Paris, France)
• Muslim Women's League (Los Angeles, CA)