General Links

Religion Links

Offbeat Religion Links

Islam Links

Metasites, Qur'an, Hadith, Law, Ritual, Shi'ism, Sufism, Contemporary Movements, Academic Web Pages, Anti-Muslim Sites

Gender Links

Art and Religion Links

Islamic Art, Islamic Architecture, Iconoclasm, Virgin Mary, Elvis, Vehicle Art

Music Links

Photography Links

Bicycling Links

General Links

• University of Pennsylvania Library
• Asian Studies WWW Virtual Library (a metasite for all of Asia)
• Middle East Resources (a metasite at Columbia University)
• Maps (online Perry-Castaneda Map Collection at the University of Texas)
• Evaluating and Citing Web Resources (courtesy of Amherst College Library)
• Guide to Citation

Religion Links

Religion Religions Religious Studies (a highly rated metasite maintained by Professor G. Thursby at the University of Florida)

Virtual Religion Index (another good metasite)

Religious Studies Resources (a metasite at AcademicInfo.net)

American Academy of Religion (the professional organization specialists in the study of Religion)

 

Offbeat Religion (some of this may be offensive)

Killing the Buddha (an e-zine)

Islam Links

Metasites

Islam and Islamic resources (this is by far the best metasite for the study of Islam, maintained by Prof. Alan Godlas at the University of Georgia)

IslamiCity.com (a very polished site)

Muslim Students' Association of the United States and Canada (official site)

 

Qur'an


Qur'an Browser (a powerful Arabic search engine for several popular commentaries on the Qur'an)

Radio Al-Islam I ( Arabic recitation by Shaikh Khalil al-Husari with synched Arabic and transliterated text)

Radio Al-Islam II (same setup with recitation by Qari Muhammad Siddiq al-Manshawi)

 

Hadith

Hadith Database (a search engine for Bukhari, Muslim, Abu Dawud and Malik)

Sahih Bukhari (hyperlinked translation)

Sahih Muslim (hyperlinked translation)

Sunan Abu Dawud (partial hyperlinked translation)

Muwatta of Malik ibn Anas (hyperlinked translation)

 

Law

Islamic and Middle Eastern law materials on the net (links compiled by the Centre for Islamic and Middle Eastern Law, School for Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), London)

 

Ritual

Adhan and Salat (multiple audio examples)

Hajj and 'Umra (an extremely comprehensive and informative resource)

Hajj Information Center (a comprehensive and somewhat commercial guide)

Virtual Hajj

 

Shi'ism

Shi'ite Encyclopedia (a well-designed e-book)

 

Sufism

Sufism Gateway (by far the most comprehensive site on the topic)

 

Contemporary movements

Islam in the United States (site belonging to the US Information Agency)

American Muslim Council (the major Muslim political action committe)


CAIR (Council of American Islamic Relations)

Progressive Muslims Network (a discussion group)

Ahmadiyya Muslim Community

Nation of Islam (official site)

ISIM (International Institute for the Study of Islam in the Modern World, Leiden, The Netherlands)

Universal Islamic Declaration of Human Rights

 

Academic web pages

Islamic Studies at the University of Pennsylvania

Omid Safi, Colgate University

Islamweb (Islamic Studies internet guide at University of North, Chapel Hill)

Yale Univerity Program in Islamic Studies

 

Anti-Muslim Material

Allah had no Son (an anti-Muslim comic)

The Pilgrimage (an anti-Muslim comic)

What is Islam? What do Muslims Believe? (hate material)

Gender Links

Women and Society (a metasite, not very strong on Islam and the Middle East)

The Muslim Women's Homepage (a long, well-organized list of links)

Karama (Muslim Woman Lawyers for Human Rights)

RAWA (Revolutionary Association of the Women of Afghanistan)

Rape as a weapon (Human Rights Watch report on Kosovo)

Queer Jihad

Ahbab (site of the Gay and Lesbian Arab Society)

Lazeeza (Arab Lesbians Online)

Queer Arab Women Support Group

The Khush Page (a collection of links for GLBTQ South Asians)

Nikah Consultants (matrimonial services online)

Art and Religion Links

General

Religion and the Visual Arts (a basic metasite)

• Islamic Art

• ArchNet (Online art and architecture community focusing on the Islamic world)
• Art of the Muslim World (an online gallery)
• Art of Arabic Calligraphy (informative essays written by a calligrapher, Mamoun Sakkal)
• Islamic Art and Architecture

• Islamic Architecture

• Al-Haram Al-Sharif (the Dome of the Rock and the Al-Aqsa Mosque)
• Images and Graphics on the Middle East (maintained by Columbia University)

 

• Iconoclasm

• Plunder of Afghanistan (dated but extremely valuable)

• • Virgin Mary

  • Marion art on the Web (a collection of valuable links)
  • Marian Apparitions (follow Virgin Mary sightings around the world)

• • Elvis

  • Elvis.com (the "official" Elvis site)
  • Elvis Home Page (the unofficial "original" Elvis site)
  • The First Church of Elvis (ah LUV this one!!)
  • Destination:Elvis (home of a good Graceland tour)

• • Vehicle Art

  • Truck Painting - Mobile attractions (Truck Painting in Pakistan)
  • On Wings of Diesel (my Pakistani truck site)
  • Pakistani Truck Art
  • Art Car Fest

Music

• Persian Music Index
• Radio Free Afghanistan
• Turkishmusic.org (a major source of all kinds of Turkish music)
• BBC Musical Nomad (a netumentary on folk music in Central Asia)
• M. Waqar's Page (a good collection of digitized Indian, Pakistan, Afghan and Iranian music)
• Beirut Nights Radio (a notoriously good euro and middle eastern dance music e-station)

Film

• Internet Movie Database
• Arab Film Distribution

Photography

• Photo.net (possibly the best metasite for photographic information)
• FocalFix (another metasite, with fun equipment reviews)
• Photodo (good for lens tests, whatever they're worth)

Here are a few photoraphers' pages that I really like

• Art Synthesis by Jose Campos
• Mary Frey
• Imagerealm by Mathew Garrett
• Cultural Visions by Frank Ward
• As Light Dances by Jamal Elias

Bicycling

• ABC/Quad Cycles (my bike club, best anywhere)
• Bike Culture (if you're hip enough...)
• Velo News (major bike mag, but they don't call it Velo Snooze for nothing...)
• Bicycling Magazine ("we're cheap because we're whoring for the bike industry" )
• Napa Valley Velo  (great cyclocross site)
• 'Crossnet@Mad Dog (another fun 'cross site)
• Surly (maker of good and cheap 'cross frames - "Fatties Fit Fine")
• USA Cycling (the governing body of competitive cycling in the US -- yawn...)