Ahlul Bayt Islamic Digital Library Project

The DILP is an effort to digitise important Islamic resources and make them available to the masses through the Internet. Ultimately, we aim to explore possibilities of bringing this digitised material together in a comprehensive Islamic Study Database."

Instituted in 1999, this project will make available in electronic format 100 previously published and 15 new monographs in the field of Middle Eastern and Islamic history.

Sultan Baybars' Qur'an: Written in gold in Arabic dates from 1304 to 1306 and was produced for the Mamluk ruler of Egypt, Rukn al-Din Baybars al-Jashnagir. "Visitors are able to virtually "turn" the pages of manuscripts in an incredibly realistic way, using touch-screen technology and animation. They can zoom in on the high quality digitised images and read or listen to notes explaining the beauty and significance of each page. There are other features specific to the individual manuscripts - in the Leonardo notebook, for example, a mirror button turns the text round so visitors can try to read his famous mirror handwriting.

There are currently nine treasures on display in Turning the Pages; the Lindisfarne Gospels, the Diamond Sutra, the Sforza Hours, the Leonardo Notebook, the Golden Haggadah, the Luttrell Psalter, Blackwell's Herbal, the Sherborne Missal and Sultan Baybars' Qur'an."

"A catalogue of medieval Islamic and European astronomical instruments is currently being prepared at the Institute for the History of Science at Frankfurt University. It is hoped that this catalogue will serve as a useful research tool by providing critical descriptions of all historically-significant instruments, arranged according to provenance and type. The total number of instruments included in the catalogue will be about 550 astrolabes (some 300 Islamic and 250 European) and 250 quadrants, sundials and other instruments."

"This dictionary is an aid to the readers of Muslim philosophical works many of which are in Arabic. It includes most of the terminology that was developed by Muslim philosophers in their works and the terms that they borrowed -and sometimes translated- from the Greek philosophical works. Also included are concepts that are Islamic but of a philosophical nature and were used by Muslim philosophers...The dictionary also includes the Arabized names of the philosophers and scientist of Greek, Roman, and Byzantine Origin -namely those that worked with Greek works of science, mathematics and philosophy....This dictionary is based on the work by Prof. M. Saeed Sheikh "Dictionary of Muslim Philosophy" published by the Institute of Islamic Culture of Lahore, Pakistan- first published in 1970 with updates and corrections as needed...."

At the IntraText Digital Library site.

Translated by F.E. Johnson and Sheikh Faiz-ullah-bhai [1917] The first three mu`allaqat. From The Sacred Books and Early Literature of the East, volume V, Ancient Arabia, ed. Charles F. Horne (New York and London: Parke, Austin, and Lipscomb, 1917).

"The History of the Crusades, published by the University of Wisconsin Press over a twenty year period beginning in 1969, was intended to serve as a collaborative and comprehensive treatment of the topic, ranging in time from the first 100 years of the Crusades to their ultimate impact on the histories of the Near East and Europe. The work is comprised of six volumes, each of which is included here in its entirety.
 
It is hoped that the search features of the History of the Crusades database will be a convenient aid to scholarship and study. Both the individual volumes and the series as a whole can be browsed and searched by keyword. However, the underlying computer text used in the search process consists of unedited files created by using Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software. Consequently, the search capability is useful but not absolutely reliable in locating words and terms used in the texts. Users are advised to consult the table of contents and indexes in the individual volumes in order to conduct a thorough search for specific information in the texts."

Hugoye: Journal of Syriac Studies is an electronic journal dedicated to the study of the Syriac tradition, published semi-annually (in January and July) by The Syriac Computing Institute.

Complete 12 volume Jewish Encyclopedia, originally published between 1901-1906. "The Jewish Encyclopedia, which recently became part of the public domain, contains over 15,000 articles and illustrations. This online version contains the unedited contents of the original encyclopedia. Since the original work was completed almost 100 years ago, it does not cover a significant portion of modern Jewish history (e.g., the creation of Israel, the Holocaust, etc.). However, it does contain an incredible amount of information that is remarkably relevant today."

"The Journal of Arabic and Islamic Studies has been established to promote the study of Arabic language and literature and Islamic civilization through the publication of research articles, review articles, and occasional communications and shorter reviews.

The Journal of Arabic and Islamic Studies is a publication of the Section of Middle Eastern Languages and Cultures, University of Bergen, in cooperation with the Institute of Ancient Near Eastern Studies, Charles University, Prague. It is innovative in adopting an electronic mode of publication in addition to paper publication. In most other respects, however, it functions as a traditional scholarly journal. Research papers and discussion articles submitted to the Journal will be subject to peer review in accordance with accepted academic practice."

An electronic collection of full-length previously published studies concerning the history of the Iberian peninsula.

Project Director: Prof. James W. Brodman (University of Central Arkansas)

Ottoman Texts Archive Project (OTAP), Ottoman Text Edition Project (OTEP), and the Ottoman Historical Dictionary (OHD).

Francis Joseph Steingass' A Comprehensive-Persian English Dictionary.  A comprehensive Persian-English dictionary includes Perso-Arabic and roman alphabets. In order to display the non-Roman characters a Unicode-enabled font must be installed.  Part of the Digital Dictionaries of South Asia Project at the University of Chicago.

Boolean searchable electronic archive of major poets, including Hafez, Omar Khayyam, Molavi, Sa'adi and Baba Taher.

Site is in Persian.  Requires installation of a special non-standard Persian font available on the website.

"Electronic Literature Foundation's presentation of the Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam. The Rubaiyat is not a single poem, but is rather a collection of verses written by or attributed to 'Umar Khayyam, the Persian mathematician, philosopher and astronomer who lived from ca. 1048 - 1122. This site presents several editions of the popular Edward FitzGerald adaptation, as well as a more substantial translation by E.H. Whinfield. To enrich your reading experience, we have also included illustrations by Edmund Dulac and Willy Pogany."

"as-Sikka has been established to promote the study of Islamic numismatics through the e-publication of research articles, review articles, communications, and shorter reviews and studies. It is designed to allow members of the Islamic Coins Group as well as other contributors, to participate in activating Islamic numismatic research in a free and easily accessible medium."

Edited by: Middle East Medievalists MEMber Fawzan Barrage

"An electronic database of illustrated Shahnama manuscripts A research group on book painting and literary history. The inauguration of a new generation of Shahnama studies The Arts and Humanities Research Board (AHRB) of the British Academy has awarded Cambridge University a five-year research grant to produce an electronic corpus of illustrated Shahnama manuscripts, and to carry out a research programme on the history of the text of Firdawsi's epic and its illustration. Work started in October 1999 and will be concluded in September 2004."

Directors: Middle East Medievalists MEMber Dr. Charles P. Melville (University of Cambridge) & Prof. Robert Hillenbrand (University of Edinburgh)

Over a million pages of Arabic and Islamic works (in Arabic).

Recommended for optimal viewing: Internet Explorer 5.0 or higher and an Arabic-enabled operating system such as Windows 2000 or Windows XP.