Islam
See also:
SOAS students and staff only off-campus
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Cambridge Histories Online
Access to Cambridge History of Islam and Cambridge New History of Islam
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Oxford Bibliographies Online
Select Islamic Studies. Combines the functions of a research level encyclopedia and a bibliography
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Oxford Islamic Studies
Access to major reference works on the Islamic World from the Oxford University Press
On-campus / Off-campus
General web resources
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Alkhazina
Developed by the Department of Near Eastern Studies at Princeton University to support the study of Islamic culture (particularly the early centuries) at the University -
First Ismaili Electronic Library and Database
Website dedicated to H.H. The Aga Khan and Ismailism -
Internet Islamic History Sourcebook
From Fordham University (New York) – essays, articles, extracts and commentary on the history of Islam and the Islamic World -
Islam and Islamic Studies Resources
Excellent portal maintained by Professor Alan Godlas (University of Georgia) on all aspects of Islam -
Islam.com
Site is available in six languages, including Arabic, Turkish, Malay and Indonesian. It is maintained by the Ministry of Islamic Affairs in Saudi Arabia -
Al-Islam.org (Ahlul Bayyt Digital Islamic Library Project)
Comprehensive site with Shi’ite stance -
Islamic Finder
Directory on all aspects of Islamic doctrine and practice -
Islamic Sufi Orders on the World Wide Web
Information on a variety of Sufi turuqs -
MENALIB: Middle East Virtual Library (State-and-University Library of Saxony-Anhalt, Halle, Germany)
Portal to electronic full-text material and bibliographic records of printed material and manuscripts on the Middle East, North Africa and Islamic Studies
Open Access texts
- Al-Quran al-Karim : the Noble Quran Online Quranic text, searchable, browsable by chapters. Within a chapter, each verse in Arabic is available as an audio-recording (with a choice of 9 different reciters) and is accompanied by its translation in English (6 different English translations are available) or in 34 other languages, as well as a transliterated version.
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Digital Islam Theses
JISC-funded project giving access to over 900 UK PhD theses on Islamic studies via ETHOS. Registration with ETHOS is required (free) -
Hadith Search
Search for and download copies of the hadiths and commentary upon the hadiths (part of Living Islam website) -
Islamic Heritage Project
Access to digitised copies of hundreds of manuscripts, printed texts and maps from Harvard University’s Library and Museum collections dating from the 13th to 20th centuries -
MENALIB: Middle East Virtual Library (State-and-University Library of Saxony-Anhalt, Halle, Germany)
Portal to electronic full-text material and bibliographic records of printed material and manuscripts on the Middle East, North Africa and Islamic Studies -
Al-Tafsir.com
Comprehensive resource for Quranic studies -
Al-Warq
Extensive collection of writings on Arabic literature and the humanities with some items available in full-text. This site is in Arabic and registration is required. -
The Quranic Arabic Corpus
This is an annotated linguistic resource which shows the Arabic grammar, syntax and morphology for each word in the Holy Quran. The corpus provides three levels of analysis: morphological annotation , a syntactic treebank and a semantic ontology . -
Sunnah.com : the Hadith of the Prophet Muhammad (ﷺ) at your fingertips
Sunnah.com is searchable online database of 13 corpuses of Arabic Hadith compilations in Arabic, including the six canonical collections of hadith (Kutub as-Sittah). Each compilation is accompanied of a brief historical introduction and each hadith is accompanied by its translation in English and Urdu, together with an indicator of its"reliability" according to the Islamic rules of hadith studies.
Other libraries / Organisations
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Aga Khan University (Institute for the Study of Muslim Civilisations)
London-based Institute aims to strengthen research and teaching about the heritage of Islamic societies -
Centre for Islamic and Middle Eastern Law (CIMEL)
Established at SOAS in 1990 as a scholarly legal bridge for research and practice -
Al-Furqan Islamic Heritage Foundation
The Library specialises in biographical dictionaries and manuscripts, and has a unique collection of manuscripts on microform -
Institute of Arab and Islamic Studies (University of Exeter)
Covers most aspects of Islamic studies from medieval times to the present -
Institute of Ismaili Studies
The Library collections comprise nearly 25,000 items, including printed materials, manuscripts and audio-visual materials -
Ismaili Heritage Library
Collection of resources on Ismaili studies -
School of Theology, Religious Studies and Islamic Studies (Trinity St. David, University of Wales)
A new academic school within Trinity St. David (University of Wales), created from the merger of Trinity University College (Carmarthen) and the University of Wales (Lampeter)