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SOME ESSENTIAL READINGS

Islam

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SPECIAL REPORTS: Muslim Americans: A National Portrait (2009) (Muslim West Facts Project, Gallup, Inc.) Scholars of Islam & the Tragedy of Sept. 11th (Study of Islam Section, Amer. Acad. of Religion)

• Africa and Islam
  • África and Islam -- Biblioteca Virtual (oozebap.org, Barcelona, Spain)
    Selected online books, journals, and links on information about Africa and Islamic societies.
  • ARISA--Annual review of Islam in South Africa. (Online) -- Cape Town: Department of Religious Studies, University of Cape Town, 1998-
  • Sudanic Africa. (Online): TOC and Excerpts, 1990- (Bergen, Norway)
  • Tijaniyya or Tijani Sufi Islam below.
  • The Libraries of Timbuktu and related links (via Columbia University)
  • See also: Islam in Contemporary Africa --and-- Muridiyya below.
  
  
• Al-Islam.org (Ahlul Bayt Digital Islamic Library Project, UK ; Qom, Iran)
  A comprehensive site, with a very good subject index.
  
  
• ALMISBAH--Database of Online Resources Via MENALIB--Middle East Virtual Library. (The State- and University Library Saxony-Anhalt, Halle, Germany)
  
  
• American Moslem Foundation (Covington, Washington, USA)
  
  
• 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)

• A brief illustrated guide to understanding Islam (I. A. Ibrahim)

• Center for Islam and Science: Annotated Bibliography -- Major Voices -and- Through the Ages (Sherwood Park, Alberta, Canada)

• Columbia University Libraries: Islamic Canonical Texts (Abed Aladien)

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

• Free Islamic resources (Mohamed Ghounem)
  Many downloadable resources and information on others
  
  

• Glossary of Islamic Terms and Concepts (MSA-USC)

• Discovering Islamic Art From Museum With No Frontiers (MWNF)

• Hadith

  • The Forty Hadith of al-Nawawi In Arabic and English translation. (With comments by Dr. Jamal Ahmed Badi, International Islamic University, Malaysia)
  • SacredHadith.com: Forty Hadith Qudsi In Arabic--with audio--and English translation. (ProjectNur.Com, UK)
  • Hadith: Introduction to the Science of Hadith (Suhaib Hassan, via Muslim Students Association, University of Southern California, Los Angeles)
  • Hadith Resources (Muslim Students Association, University of Buffalo, New York)
  • Muwatta of Malik ibn Anas (translated by A'isha 'Abdarahaman al-Tarjumana & Ya'qub Johnson ; via Muslim Students Association, University of Southern California, Los Angeles)
  • Sahih al-Bukhari (translated by M. Muhsin Khan ; via Muslim Students Association, University of Southern California, Los Angeles)
  • Sahih Muslim: partial translation (Abdul Hamid Siddiqui ; via Muslim Students Association, University of Southern California, Los Angeles)
  • Search the Hadith Database (Muslim Students Association, University of Southern California, Los Angeles)
  • Selective Bibliography of Hadith Studies (Behnam Sadeghi ; via University of Michigan, Ann Arbor)
  • Sunan Abu Dawud: partial translation (Ahmad Hasan ; via Muslim Students Association, University of Southern California, Los Angeles)
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• Hajj (Princeton University, Dept. of Near Eastern Studies)

• Hijab (Institute of Islamic Information & Education ; via Muslim Students Association, University of Southern California, Los Angeles)

• Internet Islamic History Sourcebook (2007) (Paul Halsall et al., Fordham University, New York)

• The Muhyiddin Ibn al-'Arabi Society (Berkeley, California, USA & Oxford, UK)

• ISIM: International Institute for the Study of Islam in the Modern World (Leiden, The Netherlands)
  Note: The activities of the Institute ceased January 1, 2009.

• Islam and the Question of violence (Seyyed Hossein Nasr, Al-Serat: a journal of Islamic studies. ; via Ahlul Bayt Digital Islamic Library Project, UK)

• Islam in Contemporary Sub-Saharan Africa (February 2006) A bibliography compiled by Paul Schrijver. Library, Documentation, and Information Department. (Afrikastudiecentrum = African Studies Centre, University of Leiden, The Netherlands)
  See also: Islam in Sub-Saharan Africa -- Web Dossier (2005). Produced for a Conference on "Islam, Disengagement of the State, and Globalization in Sub-Saharan Africa" held at UNESCO in Paris on 12-13 May 2005. Plus: Islam in Nigeria--Web Dossier and Bibliography (2005).
  
  
  

• Islam Online (United Kingdom)

• Islamic Book Reviews. Jannah.Org (Huma Ahmad, USA)

• Islamic Finder (Wasat.Com)
  "Islamic Finder provides information about Islamic organizations, centers, services, and prayer times in the US and Canada."
  
  
• IslamiCity.Com (Culver City, California)
  A major portal for Islamic information and discussion fora, Quranic texts and recitation audio files, subscription-based services,
  plus Prayer Times.
  
  

• Islamic Law

  • CIMEL, Centre of Islamic and Middle Eastern Law (SOAS, University of London, UK)
  • The development of ijtihad and Islamic reform, 1750-1850 (Knut S. Vikor, University of Bergen, Norway ; via 3rd Nordic Conference on Middle Eastern Studies, Joensuu, Finland, 19-22 June 1995)
  • Shariah and Fiqh (Perspective ; via Muslim Students Association, University of Southern California, Los Angeles)
  • Usul al-fiqh al-Islami = Source methodology in Islamic jurisprudence (Taha Jabir Al'Alwani ; via Muslim Students Association, University of Southern California, Los Angeles)
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• Islamic Philosophy Online (Muhammad Hozien et al., USA)
  The site features: a dictionary of Islamic philosophy; an extensive list of major philosophers, their thought, and their works; tables of contents for The Journal of Islamic Philosophy; and related web links.
  
  

• Islamic Studies: A Bibliography, 2003 (Patrick S. O'Donnell, Santa Barbara City College, California ; via Columbia University Libraries) [.pdf file]

• Bibliography on Islamic Spain (al-Andalus), 2006. Prepared by Paul Kohlbry, University of Southern California

• Islamic Studies, Arabic and Religion Web Page (Alan Godlas, University of Georgia)

• Islamic Supreme Council of America (Fenton, Michigan)

• al-Khazina - The Library (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. Edited by Prof. Jerome W. Clinton.
  
  

• United States National Library of Medicine: Islamic Medical Manuscripts (Bethesda, Maryland)
  

• Muridiyya -or- Mouride Brotherhood on the Internet

  • Hizbut Tarqiyyah -- Khâdimu-R-Rasûl: Le Serviteur Privilégé du Prophète (Paix et Salut sur Lui) (Touba, Sénégal)
    • Le site de Hizbut-Tarqiyyah Siège et du Centre Culturel à Touba.
    • Aperçu sur sa vie et son oeuvre -- Le Serviteur Cheikh Ahmadou Bamba
    
    
  • MICA--Murid Islamic Community in America (New York)
    General information--biographical and cultural, announcements and events--including the annual visit of Serigne Mame Mor Mbacke; plus related links.
    
    
  • Shaykh Ahmadu Bamba Mbacke, 1854-1927
    • Cheikh Ahmadou Bamba Khadimou Rassoul, le serviteur privilégié du Prophéte (Dahira Sahaadatoul Mouridina de Lille; via Mouride.Com, Lille, France)
    
    
    
    • Cheikh Ahmadou Bamba (2001-2002) (Touba-Internet, France)
      Une entrée biographique du fondateur de la confrérie et celles de ses sucusseurs, avec quelques oeuvres litteraires choisies, et des autres pertinentes informations.
      
      
    • Senegal Online: Cheikh Ahmadou Bamba
      (France)
    
    
  • Passport to Paradise: Visualizing Islam in West Africa and the Mouride Diaspora (UCLA Fowler Museum of Cultural History, University of California, Los Angeles)
  
  
• Music and Islam
  • Music -- A Topic of Dispute in Islam (1995) Anadolu. (Online)
    By Mustafa Sabri. (Translated from the Turkish original, published in Beyan-ul-Haq, 1910)
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• Muslim Public Affairs Council (Los Angeles, California)

• Muslim Women's League (Los Angeles, California)

• Qadiriya or Qadiri Sufi Islam

  • Qadiriya Sufi Way. Khanqah Qadiriya Razviya--Sunni Razvi Society
    
    
  • Qadiri Rifai Sufi Order (USA and Turkey)
  
  

• Qaradawi's Pages on the Internet In Arabic (Sheikh Yousef Al-Qaradawi)

• Qur'an

  • The Holy Quran : al-Quran al-Karim (Masood Hashemi)
  • Other Qur'an-related resources (Muslim Students Assoc., Univ. of Buffalo)
  • Search the Koran (Humanities Text Initiative, University of Michigan)
  • Search the Quran Database (Muslim Students Association, University of Southern California, Los Angeles)
  • Translations of Qur'an:
    • Three English translations compared (for each verse of the Qur'an; via Muslim Studies Association, University of Southern California, Los Angeles)
      
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• Rizwi's Bibliography for Medieval Islam (2006) (Dr. Rizwi S. Faizer, McGill University, Canada)

• Shi'ah

  • Shi'ite Encyclopedia (Salim Yusufali, Stanford University, Stanford, California)
  • SIPRIn : Sadra Islamic Philosophy Research Institute (Iran)
  • Supreme Islamic Shi'te Council, Lebanon
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• Sufism

  • International Association of Sufism (Novato, California)
  • Islamic Sufi Orders on the WWW (Fariduddien Rice; via Sydney, Australia)
  • Maktab Tariqhat Oveyssi Shahmaghsoudi
  • Muridiyya or Mouride (See above)
  • Naqshbandi Sufi Way
  • Qadiriya or Qadiri (See above)
  • Sufi Traditions: a brief outline of Sufism (Zos Imos)
  • Islamic Sufi Orders on the WWW -and- Sufism and Shari'ah Last update in 1999 (Fariduddien Rice, Sydney, Australia)
  • Sufism, Sufis and Sufi Orders: Sufism's many paths (Alan Godlas, Univ. of Georgia)
  • Themes of the "Erotic" in Sufi Mysticism (Jonah Winters, Bahá'í Library Online, USA)
  • Tijaniyya or Tijani (See below)
  • 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; Yemen Update, "Yemen Webdate Archive", American Institute for Yemeni Studies, Sana'a; via Utah)
  
  

• as-Sunnah Foundation of America

  
  

• Tijaniyya or Tijani Sufi Islam

  • The Tariqa Tijaniyya Unofficial site (USA)
    
    
  • La Voie Tidjaniya -- Site officiel (Lyon, France)
  
  

• Universal Islamic Declaration of Human Rights (1981) (Al-Hewaar Center--The Center for Arab Culture and Dialogue, Washington, DC)

• Resources for and about Muslim Women. Jannah.Org (Huma Ahmad, USA)

SOURCE: http://www.columbia.edu/cu/lweb/indiv/mideast/cuvlm/Islam.html