Islamic Studies Resources

  • Waqfeya

    Digital Library

    Waqfeya is an immense collection of downloadable Islamic texts.

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  • Oxford Bibliographies in Islamic Studies

    Bibliography List

    A collection of over 200 bibliographies spanning a wide variety of categories relevant to the study of Islam.

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  • Al-Ṯurayyā Gazetteer: Gazetteer of the Classical Islamic World

    Interactive Map

    An interactive map of the classical Islamic world, with several thousand locations and routes charted.

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  • SHARIAsource at Harvard Law School

    Resource Page

    SHARIAsource is a flagship research venture of the Islamic Legal Studies Program at Harvard Law School. Its continuing mission is to organize the world’s information on Islamic law in a way that is accessible and useful.

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  • Treasures of the UCLA Library: Near Eastern Manuscripts

    Video

    While in graduate school at UCLA and working in the Center for Primary Research and Training, Ali Anooshahr brought paleographic training and language proficiency in Persian, Arabic, and Ottoman Turkish to the task of describing and processing the UCLA Library’s collection of Near Eastern Manuscripts. He is currently Assistant Professor of History at UC Davis.

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  • Encyclopaedia of Islam, 2nd. Ed.

    The Encyclopaedia of Islam (Second Edition) Online sets out the present state of our knowledge of the Islamic World. It is a unique and invaluable reference tool, an essential key to understanding the world of Islam, and the authoritative source not only for the religion, but also for the believers and the countries in which they live. Either a subscription or an affiliation with UCLA or another participating university is required.

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  • Aratools

    Online Dictionary

    Aratools is an electronic English-Arabic dictionary available on the web, as an iPhone application and as a Windows and Mac OS X application.

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  • Ejtaal Arabic Almanac

    Digital Library

    Ejtaal’s Arabic Almanac features digitized versions of over twenty dictionaries of the Arabic language, including the classical Arabic dictionaries of Ibn Manzur’s Lisan al-‘Arab and the dictionaries of Lane, Kazimirski, and Hava. It can be searched by triconsonantal root.

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  • Al-Maktaba al-Shi’iyya

    Digital Library

    The Shi’a Online Library is features a large collection of digitized texts from Shi’a history, all searchable.

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  • Middle East Studies Association (MESA)

    Academic Organization

    The Middle East Studies Association (MESA) is a private, non-profit learned society that brings together scholars, educators and those interested in the study of the region from all over the world. MESA is primarily concerned with the area encompassing Iran, Turkey, Afghanistan, Israel, Pakistan, and the countries of the Arab World from the seventh century to modern times. 

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