Resources on Islam
Major Islamic Resources Sites
Al Muhaddith Islamic Library
Islam - Resources and Information
Transliteration of the Arabic text into Latin characters: [1], [2], [3]
Arabic recitation: [1], [2], [3], [4]
Holy Qur'an Resources on the Internet and Qur'an Info
Search engines:
17 English translations in parallel
Yusuf Ali, Pickthall, Shakir
Dutch, English, French, German, Spanish
Qur'an Search Site [for windows and to be downloaded to your computer before you can use it]
Translations of the Qur'an by language and translator:
Bosnian
Dutch
English:
Parallel Yusuf Ali & Pickthall & Shakir [2]
Yusuf Ali ([Saudi corrected version])
Muhammad Asad ([The Message of The Quran with footnotes])
Maulvi Sher Ali [Ahmadiyya] ([1], [2], [3])
Rashad Khalifa ([1], [2])
Al-Hilali & Khan [Wahhabi] ([1], [2])
Pickthall ([1])
E.H. Palmer ([by chapter], [complete Qur'an [800K]])
A.J. Arberry ([1])
Muhammad Sarwar [Shia] ([1], [2])
Shakir [Shia] ([1], [2], [3])
Amatul Rahman Omar & Abdul Mannan Omar ([1])
T.B. Irving ([1], large, complete text on one page)
Maulana Wahiduddin Khan ([1])
French: Muhammad Hamidullah ([1], [2])
German: Ahmadiyya ([1]), Mohammed Rassoul ([1])
Italian
Spanish: Julio Cortés ([1])
Swahili
Thai
Arabic Comparative Concordance to Bible and Qur'an
Qur'an Dictionary (in several languages)
Qur'an index: [1], [2], [3], [4], [5]
Glossaries/dictionaries of Islamic terms: [1], [2], [3] [4], [5], [6], [7], [8], [9]
Tafsir:
Al-Tafsir.com has most classical commentaries on the Qur'an (Arabic only) but some are available in English as well (e.g. Jalalayn and Ibn Abbas)
Tafsir Ibn Kathir (Abridged) [1], [2]
Syed Abu-Ala' Maududi's Chapter Introductions to the Qur'an: [1], [2], [3]
Maududi's commentary on the Qur'an: [1], [2] (somewhat different/adapted editions)
Hadith Sites
THE Sunnah and Hadith Site with Search Engine for all Hadith collections together
More general hadith (link) sites: [1] [1]
Sahih Bukhari: English Translations by M. Muhsin Khan and Aisha Bewley (with different numbering systems). Search sites only: [3], [4]
Hadith Qudsi: [1]
Special collections:
Imam an-Nawawi's Fourty Hadith: [*, *]
Riyad As-Salihin: [1]
Evaluation of some commonly quoted hadith
More Hadith pages and links: [*]
Hadith in Arabic (commercial site)
Other Muslim Traditions
The Last Sermon of Muhammad:
Sunni version (Full: [1], [2], abridged: [1], [2], [3], [4], actually, there are three Sunni Versions: [1], [2])
Shia version ([1])
Western scholarship on Ghadir Khumm
Authentic supplications of the prophet
Prayer site: Salat
Life of Muhammad (biography/history/hagiography): [1], [2], [3], [3a], [3b], [4], [5], [6], [7], [8], [9]
The First Four Caliphs, later, many, last, and current(??)
Lives of the Sahaba: [1], [2], [3], [4], [5], [6], [7]
Islamic History, Philosophy, and Scientific Thought
Biographies of Khalifa, Sahaba, scholars of Islam
A Restatement of the History of Islam and Muslims (Shi`a view)
Calendar Conversion sites: [1], [2], [3], [4], [5]
Hijra moon calendar (detailed discussion of various issues)
Islamic schools of jurisprudence
General overview: [1]
Hanafi: [1]
Maliki: [1]
Shafi'i: The Reliance of the Traveller
Related issues: *
General Islamic Sites:
Sites I like (friendly, creative, ...)
Tawil
Islamic links pages: [Yahoo], [Huma's Mama list], [Islamic World Link Directory], [Islamic Interlink], [Islamic Directory], others: [1], [2], [3], [4], [5]
Islamic Search Engine, Islamic Finder, Islamicweb
The Islam Page by Ibrahim Shafi & comments
IslamiCity in Cyberspace: [1a], [1b] with their massive Q & A section [2a], [2b]
The Society for Adherence to the Sunnah
Ahl as-Sunnah Page of the Abd al-Wahids
An Invitation to Discover True Islam
MSA News
Sala@m with discussion forum
Questions this modern age puts to Islam
Safaar
Islamic Education Foundation
Islamic Society of RMIT (lots of special effects)
Muslim Public Affairs Council
Islamic Texts and Resources MetaPage - MSA U at Buffalo
The Islamic Training Foundation
Thomas (Aalim Zakee) Fevens: Home Page
Islam On Line & Mini Masjied BBS
International Forum for Islamic Dialog
Ibn ul Waqt (Islamic magazine)
The New Edmonton Islamic Resources
Islamic Society of North America
Islamic Center of Southern California
Azhar Mosque Of The Internet
RELIGION: Islam (The World-Wide Web Virtual Library: Religion)
Islamic Links and lots of them.
Islamic Studies, Arabic, and Religion Web Page (Professor Alan Godlas)
Darul Arqam Singapore Muslim Converts Association of Singapore
Bangor Islamic Society Homepage
Ministry of W.D. Mohammed Home Page
ICNA (Islamic Circle of North America) - the organization of Islamic workers
Zaytuna Institute (Hamza Yusuf)
Al-Mughtarib - A reference for Muslims living in North America
MENA.net
Islamic Foundation of America
Hazem Nasereddin's Home Page
"Risale-i Nur" by Bediüzzaman Said Nursi: [1], [2]
The Risale-i Nur Students of America
Mas'ud Ahmed Khan's Home Page with works by Nuh Ha Mim Keller and Abdal Hakim Murad
Cyber Muslim Information Collective
Centre for Islamic Awareness
MSA (Muslim Student Association) List
Islamic Society of Stanford University
Islamic Information & Dawah Centre International
Belfast Islamic Centre (Mosque)
Bader Islamic Association of Toronto
FSA As-Sunnah Foundation of America
Qaradawi Home Page (Arabic & English)
Islamic Information Foundation
Institute of Qur'anic Wisdom
Husam Al'Din (Home of the "Militant Islam" Web Ring)
Taliban
More Examples of Militant Islam: Azzam, Nida'ul Islam (The Call of Islam) [e.g. 1, 2, 3, 4 & al.], Islamic Resistance [e.g. June operations], Al-Muhajiroun, Al-Bayan
Muslim - Christian(?) Interaction:
The Center for Muslim-Christian Understanding
Islam and Christian-Muslim Relations
Christlich-Islamische Gesellschaft, Köln (Klaus Schuenemann)
Confessional Theology: A Way to Dialogue Between Christianity and Islam
Interfaith Insanity
Islamic web sites in other languages
Arabic:
Tajweed
True Islam (only Arabic)
Bosnian:
Chinese: 1
French:
Association des Musulman(e)s de l'Université de Sherbrooke
German:
Islamischer Weg e.V. [Shia]
More: [1]
Indonesian:
ISNET (The Islamic Network): [1], [2]
Italian:
Japanese:
Malay:
Malaysian Islamic Study Group
Portugese:
Spanish:
Islamic Cultural Center of Mexico
Swedish:
Turkish:
Muslim Sects
Some of the below groups are seen to be heretical by some (or even many) Muslims, but they call themselves Muslims and it is not the goal of this page to be the judge on the acceptability of their positions to the orthodox Muslims.
Al-Islam
World Federation (Khoja Shia Ithna Asheris)
The Infallibles Shia Web Page
Ahlul Bayt Digital Islamic Library Project
IUA-Net
Jafria Association of North America
Al Sahifah al Sajjaadiyah (The Psalms of Islam)
The Islamic Ahlul Bayt Association
Al-Islam
Qambar's Shia Islam Homepage
Collection of Shia sites at Yahoo
World Shia Business Directory
Anti-Shia Pages: *, *, *, *, *, *
First Ismaili Electronic Library and Database
More: [1],
Salafis: (is that really a separate movement?)
Al-Qur'an was-Sunnah Society
Tariq Buchh's Deen ul Haq Page
Back to Al Walaa' wa'l Baraa'
Suheil Laher's Islam Page (I like that one)
Anti-Salafiyya pages: [*, *]
Islamic Research Center on the Sufi / Salafi controversy
International Association of Sufism
Bawa Muhaiyaddeen Fellowship
Some Writings of Prof. Dr. Mahmud Es'ad Cosan
M.T.O. Shahmaghsoudi (School of Islamic Sufism)
Die Sufi-Seite (German)
Anti-Sufi pages: [1], [2], [3], [4]
The Submitters ("Khalifites"): [1], [2] & comments
With the Quran the hearts rejoice
Qur'anic Islam (Kashif A Shehzada)
Reflections, references, ...: [1]
Why the Traditions are Mandatory for All Muslims
Ahmadiyya (Qadiani):
[In 1998, for reasons still mysterious to us, nearly all of the extensive Qadiani websites disappeared within days. Only some still exist as domain names, but are "put on hold", displaying only minimal content, others are taken over by the competing branch of the Lahore Ahmadiyya. If anyone knows the real reasons for the Qadiani retreat from the Web, I would be very interested to understand it. Update: In 2002 the official site has come back, though with less material.]
Ahmadiyya Muslim Community (the official site of the movement)
Ahmadiyya Muslim Student's Organization had quite a bit of good material (still nearly empty, now only pointing to the offcial site)
Ahmediyya Movement in Islam, Willingboro, NJ (gone like most)
http://www.ahmadiyya.com includes a discussion forum
Anti-Ahmadiyya pages: [*, *, *, *, *, *, *, *, *, *, *]
Lahore Ahmadiyya:
Ahmadiyya Muslim Web Server (originally Qadiani, now taken over by Lahoris)
The Lahore Ahmadiyya Movement
Lahore Ahmadiyya Movement for the Propagation of Islam
===> Christian Response to the Ahmadiyya Movement
Nation of Islam Online: [1], [2], [3], [4], [5]
Nation of Islam links from Yahoo
Biography of Louis Farrakhan
Farrakhan & Black Antisemitism
Anti-NoI pages: [*, *, *, *, *, *, *, *, *, *]
===> Christian Response to the Nation of Islam
The Ministry of Warith Deen Muhammad
Further Muslim writings against heretical Islam:
Finality of Prophethood Movement
Other groups:
Druze
Yezidism
Moorish Orthodox Fire Shrine
The Holy Koran of the Moorish Science Temple of America
Noble Drew Ali's identity with Allah
Qiyamat
5% Nation of Islam (does not even claim to be Muslims, but uses "Islam", "Allah", ...)
Bahá'í: (Not really Muslim, but because they accept Muhammad and the Qur'an, reinterpret it, and add their own writings they are in a certain sense an Islamic sect.)
Bahá'í Computer and Communications Association with many Bahá'í sites
Other Baha'i pages: [1], [2]
Anti-Bahai pages: [1], [2], [3]
Bahai about their relationship to the Ahmadiyya: [1], [2]
Special Sites
Bibliography of Hadith Studies
Bibliograph of (Medieval) Islamic Theology
Islamic Humor [rare thing - I am most interested to find similar pages like this one]
The Mother of all Websites (Saddam Hussein's Fan Club)
Islamic & Arabic Arts and Architecture (beautiful! and excerpts also at Arabic Calligraphy)
Symmetry and Pattern - The Art of Oriental Carpets
Arabic and Islamic Architecture
More links on art: [*, *, *]
The Cultural Academy of Islam
Harvard's Center for Middle Eastern Studies
Islamic and Middle Eastern Law Materials on the Net
Other Middle Eastern Studies sites on the Web
Centre for Middle Eastern Studies
First Things - A Journal of Religion and Public Life
Islamic Law Related Materials by CIMEL (Centre of Islamic & Middle Eastern Law)
Medieval History Texts (Islam section) (Fordham University)
The Electronic Journal of Middle East Studies
Tour Egypt [Sites, History, Religion]
International Muslimah Artist Net
Tariq's Islam Page with "Islamic History" and Calender etc.
International Institute of Islamic Thought
Organization of Islamic Countries: Data, Trade
Al Mashriq - The Levant: An Arabic Culture site
Jareeda Magazine (Belly Dancing)
Yahala -- Directory of the Middle East
Arabic newspapers: Al-Shahr, Watani
The Iranian - cultural newspaper
Ayam Al Bahrain (human rights)
Islamic Voice (India)
Muslim Business Yellow Pages
Language Systems for Arabic and Islamic Software
Islamic Affairs Department -- Saudi Embassy page
Info on United Arab Emirates
Arabic Software:
Viewing Arabic Web Pages: [1], [2]
Islamic Programs & Applications
ARAMedia, Arabization & Software Center
Arabic, Persian, Hebrew Adobe Page Maker Software
Imran Hussain's Free Software
Muslim Matrimonial Services: [1], [2], [3], [4], [5], [6], [7], [8], [9], [10], [Links to many more]
Islamic Publishers and Bookstores:
Pak Books on Islam & the Middle East
The Online Islamic Bookstore
Treasury of Islamic Products
Al Nadi - International Book Club
Quill Publishers / Dar Taiba
International Books & Tapes Supply
An Extensive Worldwide List of Islamic Book-sellers
Books on Islam and the Islamic World (expensive antiques mostly)
A. Ghosh (Publisher) (not Islamic, but books about Islam)
I am always glad to update this page. Please let me know of any other pages on Islam by sending me page title and URL. I would also appreciate to know of any of those Islamic sites that carry articles on the Bible, the nature of Jesus or any other topic of relevance to the dialog between Christians and Muslims.
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