Middle East and Islamic Studies Guide: Islamic Studies

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 Arts