Additional WWW Sites, Middle East Subjects
Middle East as a Whole:
- Middle East Studies - WWW
Virtual Library (Univeristy of Texas)
- Journal of Arabic and Islamic
Studies (University of Bergen, Norway)
- Middle East Resource Center (Golbal
Publishing Group, USA)
- Al Mashriq
- [Cultural Multimedia Server for Lebanon and the rest of the Levant.
Covers: Archaeology, Architecture, Business Media, Cinema, Music and Dance,
Clothes, Peace, Education, Egypt, Postcards, Food, Geography and Maps, Health,
History, Humor, Imagery from Space, Kuwait, Iraq, Turkey, Israel, Jordan,
Language and Literature, Lebanon, Radio and TV, Religion, Syria, Travel.]
- Specific Countries/Peoples/Cultures/Religions
- Egypt - Home Page Egypt-Regional Information Georgia
Link to Asian Studies - Georgia [6 links] Iran PersiaNet Iranian/Persian
Art Iraq Israel Israel, a central point for connecting with all known
WWW sites in Israel. Dome of the Rock in Jerusalem. Jordan Kuwait Lebanon
Lebanon - Basic Information Lebanon-Government Oman Palestine Dome
of the Rock, in Jerusalem. Qatar Saudi Arabia Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
home page Syria Syria - Basic Information Syria - Home Page Syria
- Other WWW Sites Turkey Time Travel into the History of Turkey Istanbul
coming from Istanbul Technical University in Turkey. United Arab Emirates
Yemen
Scholarly Organizations and Projects Related to
the Middle East
- CANMES
[Candian section of MESA]
- Inter-University
Consortium for Arab Studies [Canada]
- The Jaffee Centre for Strategic
Studies [Tel Aviv University]
- Amman University [Jordan]
- University of Jordan
- Arab Universities On-Line
- Camel Researchers
Database [United Arab Emirates University]
- Birzeit University [Palestinian Authority]
- Moroccan Association of Researchers
and Scholars
- Arab
Information Project [Georgetown University]
Middle East Press On-Line
- Middle East Review
of International Affairs [Bar-Ilan University]
- Iran Weekly Press Digest
- Abar View [selection
of editorial opinion on mostly political topics from the overseas Saudi-owned
press]
- Al-Hayat [Arabic-language daily from
London]
- Al-Jazirah [Saudi newspaper,
in Arabic]
- Yemen Times
- Ha'aretz [select articles
in English, with links to the Hebrew edition]
- Economic Perspectives [from
Jordan, in English]
- Business Today [the
Egyptian business daily]
- Middle East Reports
Movements, Alternative Politics
- Political Resources
on the Middle East [political information and resistance movements in
Middle East countries and the Caucasas republics]
- Committee for Defence of Legitimate
Rights [in Saudi Arabia]
- Movement for Islamic Reform in Arabia
[a splinter group from the CDLR]
- Crisis in Egypt [reports human
rights news and Ikhwan positions, from the Egyptian Action Group]
- Muslim Brotherhood Movement
- Bahrain Freedom Movement
- American Kurdish Information Network
- MED TV [Kurdish-oriented sattelite
broadcaster]
- Taliban
[Afghanistan]
- Hizbollah [The Association for
Supporting the Islamic Resistance in Lebanon]
- al-Manar [Lebanon]
- Markazi Anjuman Khuddan-ul Qur'an
Lahore [Pakistan]
Religious Materials, on-line
- Muslim Students
Association, SUNY Buffalo [click on section "Qur'an" for three translations
of the Qur'an: by Muhammad Shakir, Marmaduke Pickthall, and Yusuf Ali]
- Muslim
Students Association, Univ of Pennsylvania [more on the Qur'an]
- Muslim Students Association,
U of Missouri-Rolla [more on the Qur'an]
- Dr. T. B. Irving's translation
of th Qur'an, with background information on each surah.
- The
U.N.N. Islamic Society of the United Kingdom provides a translation of
the Qur'an by Muhammad Taqi ud-Din al-Hilani and Dr. Muhammad Muhsin Khan.
- Muslim Students Association,
Univ of Southern California provides comparisons between the various translations
of the Qur'an. They also offer Syed Abu-Ala' Maududi's introductions to each
surah.
- Muslim Sisters'
Home Page
- Ibrahim Shafi's Islam Page
which provides text versions of the Qur'an in Arabic as well as English.
- Hadith
collections of al-Bukhari and Malik's al-Muwatta
- Ahlul Bayt's Home
Page [a digital islamic library project, much on Shi'ism]
- Haqqani
Foundation [information about Sufism and the Naqshbandi order.]
- Naqshabandi Order Home Page
- Nimatullahi Order
- Qadiri-Rifa'i Order
- Sufi home
page [with translations of some of Mevlana Jamal al-Din al-Rumi's poetry,
and links to selections of Mevlevi music].
Literature
- Sir
Richard Burton's translation of 1000 Nights [hypertext version]
- Project
Gutenberg links to translation of 1000 Nights
- Treasures of Persian
Literature
- Persian Literature
Page
- Turkish Poetry Home
Page
History and Art
- Isfahan
Home Page
- On-line Guide to al-Haram
ash-Sharif
- Biographies of Muhammad's
Companions
Social Sciences
- Social
Science Resources: the Middle East and North Africa
- Virtual Library for Arab Social Science
- Arab-Israeli
Politics a course taught by Clement Henry at the Univ of Texas
- Eye on Palestine provided by Jerusalem's
Applied Research Institute
Professional Journals On Line
- Journal of Arabic and Islamic Studies