Islamic World Studies 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

• The Pluralism Project at Harvard University

Islamic Law and Political Thought

• Contemporary Islamic Legal Thought at Harvard Law School

Geographic Resources 

• Perry-Castañeda Library Map Collection at The University of Texas – Austin

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