Link for Introduction to Islam Class, Winter Term 2000


Index

| General Information about Islam | Information about Muhammad | Information about the Qur'an | Information about Hadith | Information about "Islamic" Countries | Resources for Your Paper

Disclaimer: Inclusion here does NOT mean that I will vouch for the information found on the sites listed! Words to look out for: "Pure Islam" (who gets to decide?), "True Islam" (same thing). Doesn't mean the information is necessarily wrong, just that the author(s) are differentiating themselves from how others view Islam.


General Information about Islam

Al-Khazima: The Treasury, a collection of sites about Islam at Princeton University: http://www.princeton.edu/~humcomp/alkhaz.html

Columbia University's Area Studies program on the Middle East. This links page includes links to bibliographies and other useful information. http://www.columbia.edu/cu/libraries/indiv/area/MiddleEast/

A collection of links and annotations about various site by Prof. Alan Godlas: http://www.arches.uga.edu/~godlas/home.html

Introduction to Islam: http://www.iad.org/intro/intro.html

A course web site from 1997 for an Introduction to Islam class at Cornell. The best of the links have been connected with our course site, but you may want to look for yourself: http://instruct1.cit.cornell.edu/Courses/nes257/nes.html

About Islam (although may not be much use if you don't know Arabic. Includes prayers (in both Arabic and English), information about Ramadan: http://www.al-islam.org/

IslamiCity: http://www.islamicity.org/

Islamic Texts and Resources Metapage (lost of links to information): http://wings.buffalo.edu:80/student-life/sa/muslim/isl/isl.html

Resources on Islam: http://www.qucis.queensu.ca/home/fevens/Islam.html

Islam: Questions and Answers: http://www.islam-qa.com/

Nation of Islam: http://www.noi.org/

Links on Islam in the Medieval World: http://historymedren.about.com/education/historymedren/msubislam.htm?iam=mt

Internet Medieval Sourcebook: Islam. This site contains parts of many standard texts on the Islamic world: http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/sbook1d.html

Commercial side "About.com" has links: http://islam.about.com/culture/islam/

A conservative, "traditional" treatment of Islam: http://www.islam101.com/

"Musulman.com" site -- mostly focused on news which would be of interest t American Muslims: http://www.musalman.com/

Celebrations in Islam: Ramadan, the Hajj, and Eid: http://www.islamworld.net/#hajj

The Virtual Mosque: http://www.islamicity.org/Mosque/default.asp

Radio al-Islam. This site has links to stored Radio programs, as well as several readings of the Qur'an: http://islam.org/radio/default.htm

 


Information about Muhammad

The Prophet Muhammad: http://muhammad.net/

The Prophet Muhammad: http://www.al-sunnah.com/muhammad.htm

 


Information, Translations and Readings of the Qur'an

Search for terms in the Qur'an, based on the side-by-side English/Arabic translation I showed in section. And it's from UM! http://www.hti.umich.edu/relig/koran//

Another searchable Qur'an with a very sophisticated search engine. This one allows you to pick the translation you'd like to use. http://www.stg.brown.edu/webs/quran_browser/pqeasy.shtml

The Qur'an at USC -- includes several translations and search engines: http://www.usc.edu/dept/MSA/quran/

Pickthall's traslation: http://www.islam101.com/quran/QTP/quranPickthal.htm

Listen to the Qur'an read while looking at the Arabic (sorry, no translations here): http://www.the-quran.com/index/qrnindex1.htm

The Arabic Alphabet: http://www.islam101.com/quran/letters.html

 


Information about Hadith

A search engine for words (in English) in various hadith collections. Try this out with something you want to know about and see what sorts of things you come up with! http://www.usc.edu/dept/MSA/reference/searchhadith.html

Here are collections of hadith, organized by topic, translated into English: http://instruct1.cit.cornell.edu/Courses/nes257/nes.html


Information about "Islamic" Countries

Saudi Arabia: http://darkwing.uoregon.edu/~kbatarfi/saudi.html

Turkey

Jordan

Palestine

Egypt

Algeria

Libya

Syria

Iran

Iraq

Afghanistan

Pakistan: http://www.pakistaninformation.com/


Last updated 1/21/2000 by vika@umich.edu.