Middle East and Islamic Studies Guide

Alphabetical list of Open Access Islamic Manuscripts Collections from AMIR

• Resources for the study of manuscripts produced in the Islamic world and the manuscript cultures they represent (University of Michigan)
• The Islamic Manuscript Association
• Islamic Painted Page: A database of Islamic arts of the book
• A Research Blog about Manuscripts, Printed Books, and Ephemera in Arabic Script
• Hazine
• Fihrist: This catalogue provides a searchable interface to basic manuscript descriptions from some of the major manuscript collections in the UK. With the continuing contribution of manuscript records from UK libraries, Fihrist aims to become a union catalogue for manuscripts in Arabic script.
• Directory of Archives and Libraries in Jerusalem
  

• The Morgan Library
• Columbia
• New York Public Library
• Princeton
• Yale

Arjomand, Said Amir (ed.), Authority and Political Culture in Shi'ism (Albany: State University of New York Press, 1998).

Calder, Norman, J.A. Mojaddedi, and Andrew Rippin (eds.), Classical Islam: A Sourcebook of Religious Literature (Abingdon, Oxon; New York: Routledge, 2013).

Constable, Olivia Remie. Medieval Iberia: Readings from Christian, Muslim, and Jewish Sources (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2012).

Fordham's Internet Islamic History Sourcebook.

Halm, Heinz, The Arabs: A Short History (Princeton: Markus Wiener Publishers, 2012).

Hamza, Feras,  Sajjad Rizvi and Farhana Mayer (eds.), An Anthology of Qu'ranic Commentaries (vol. 1) : On the Nature of the Divine (Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 2010).

Levi, Scott C. and Ron Sela, Islamic Central Asia: An Anthology of Historical Sources (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2009).

Peters, F.E., A Reader on Classical Islam (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1993).

Renard, John (ed.), Islamic Theological Themes: A Primary Source Reader (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2014).

Renard, John (ed.), Knowledge of God in Classical Sufism: Foundations of Islamic Mystical Theology (New York : Paulist Press, 2004).

Renard, John (ed.), Windows on the House of Islam: Muslim Sources on Spirituality and Religious Life (Berkeley: University of Califronia Press, 1998).

Roded, Ruth (ed.), Women in Islam and the Middle East: A Reader (London and New York: I.B. Tauris, 2008).

Rossabi, Moris (ed.), The Mongols and Global History (New York: W.W. Norton, 2011).

Ruggles, D. Fairchild (ed.), Islamic Art and Visual Culture: An Anthology of Sources (Malden, MA : Wiley-Blackwell, 2011).

The Documents page of Bridging Cultures Bookshelf: Muslim Journeys

• The Quranic Arabic Corpus: an annotated linguistic resource which shows the Arabic grammar, syntax and morphology for each word in the Quran.
• Al-Tafsir: Arabic and English commentaries on the Qur’an from a wide variety of viewpoints. It is the first website to cover all seven schools if Islamic law.
•  Fondation Max van Berchem's Thesaurus d'Epigraphie Islamique
• The School of Abbasid Studies
• Mamluk Studies Resources 
• Islamic Law Materialized: The project examines both edited and unedited Arabic legal documents from a new, comparative perspective. 
• The Arabic Papyrology Database
• Asnad: Digial Persian Archive
• Al-Furqan Digital Library Portal
• al-Maktaba al-Waqfiyya A library of scanned PDFs in Arabic
• al-Meshkat.net A searchable database of classical Arabic texts
• Al-maktaba al-shamila A library of downloadable Arabic texts
• A Porsopopography of the Scholars of al-Andalus (registration required)
• Knowledge, Heresy, and Political Culture in the Islamic West (9th-15th centuries) (registration required)
• al-Warraq Searchable texts in Classical Arabic
• Historians of the Ottoman Empire
• Islamic Art Network