Islamic Studies Resources

Local Resources

• University of Minnesota Library Resources for Islamic Studies

Scholarly Organizations

• Middle Eastern Studies Association (MESA)
• International Qur’anic Studies Association (IQSA)
• Association for the Study of Religion, Economics, and Culture (ASREC)
• The American Religious Sounds Project 

Academic Centers

• Digital Islamic Studies Curriculum
• Harvard Library-Islamic Heritage Project
• Princeton University Library- Princeton Digital Library of Islamic Manuscripts
• Universität Bonn-Digitization Project "Translatio"
• Qatar National Library
• The British Library-Islam

Research Collections

• Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture
  • The Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture in Harlem, one of The New York Public Library’s renowned research libraries, is a world-leading cultural institution devoted to the research, preservation, and exhibition of materials focused on African American, African Diaspora, and African experiences.
• The African Diaspora in the Indian Ocean World
  • Traces a truly unique and fascinating story of struggles and achievements across a variety of societies, cultures, religions, languages, and times.
• The Siddi Project
  • Documentation of the lives and culture of many of the African communities that exist in various countries around the Indian Ocean as a means to explain the history of the movement of slaves across the Indian Ocean. 
• Sapelo Square
  • Celebrates and analyzes the experiences of Black Muslims in the United States to create new understandings of who they are, what they have done, and why that matters.
• Khamseen: Islamic Art History Online
  • A free and open-access online platform of digital resources to aid the teaching of Islamic art, architecture, and visual culture. 
• SAHARA Highlights: Islamic Architecture and Mosques
  •  Adding more Islamic architecture from more Asian countries and South America remains an aspiration. Two hundred and seventy-four of SAHARA’s photographs of mosques are also part of the Public Collection, shared with Artstor, meaning that they will reach an audience outside of SAH membership.  

Teaching Resources 

• Black Islam Syllabus
  • To provide teachers, professors, researchers, journalists, and people interested in learning more about Islam with resources on Black Muslims to promote a more inclusive approach to the study of Islam.
• Islamaphobia is Racism 
  • Resource for Teaching & Learning about anti-Muslim Racism in the United States
• New Books Network-Islamic Studies
  • A consortium of author-interview podcast channels dedicated to raising the level of public discourse by introducing scholars and other serious writers to a wide public via new media.