Islamic World Studies Online Resources
Originally compiled by Harry Bastermajian, Lecturer in Religion and Islamic World Studies, Lake Forest College, 2008 - 2010 (links updated fall 2016).
Library Resources
- Donnelley and Lee Library Resources on Islamic World Studies
- The University of Chicago - Center for Middle Eastern Studies Library Resources
- Harvard Library Research Guides: Middle Eastern Studies
General Sites related to Islam and Islamic World Studies
- Al-Islam.org
- IslamWeb – A general internet guide to Islam. Full of interesting and useful links.
Resources and Programs on Islamic and Middle Eastern Studies
- The University of Chicago - Center for Middle Eastern Studies
- Harvard University Islamic World Heritage Project
- Harvard University - Center for Middle Eastern Studies
- Harvard University - Prince Alwaleed Islamic Studies Program
- Harvard University - Islamic Legal Studies Program
- Harvard University - Center for the Study of World Religions
- The Carolina-Duke-Emory Institute for the Study of Islam
- Online Islamic (Hijri) – Gregorian Date Converter
Resources on Comparative Religious Studies
Islamic Law and Political Thought
Geographic Resources
Language and Literature Resources
- Library of Congress Romanization Tables
- University of Washington Language Learning Center
- UCLA Language Materials Project
- Ethnologue – An encyclopedic reference for all known living languages
- Internet Sacred Text Archive - Islam The Qur’an, Hadith, and principle works of Islamic theology and philosophy (in translation)
- USC Center for Muslim-Jewish Engagement: Religious Texts – A great, searchable source for Hadith
- Al-Warraq Thousands of volumes of primary works in Arabic about Islam and Islamic civilization (in Arabic)
- Ottoman Text Archive Project
- Omphaloskepsis – Major works of some Muslim mystics (in translation)
- The Arabian Nights (Alf layla wa layla) and the Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam (in translation)
- Dar ul-Masnavi – electronic version of the poems of Rumi (in translation)
- Sufi Literature Archive
- Islamic Philosophy Online
- Islamic History Sourcebook
- Islamic Manuscripts (Michigan) – part of the Hathi Trust Digital Library