إقرا, “Read”! Internet Resources:Muslim Contributions to Civilization: Past and Present

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Modern Scholars

Dr.Rachida El Diwani

Professor of Comparative Literature

Alexandria University, Alexandria, Egypt

http://www.lssu.edu/faculty/jswedene/Fulbright.html

Dr.Akbar Ahmed

Professor 
School of International Service

• Additional Positions at AU

  Ibn Khaldun Chair of Islamic Studies

http://www.american.edu/sis/faculty/akbar.cfm

Muslim Contributions to Civilization: Past and Present

Islam and Science

(Article) Science and Civilization in Islam (Seyyed Hossein Nasr)

http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/med/nasr.html

Overview of Islamic Culture and the Medical Arts (National Library of Medicine Exhibit)

http://www.nlm.nih.gov/exhibition/islamic_medical/islamic_00.html

Resource page of Islam SET (Science, Environment and Technology) (www.islamset.com) http://www.islamset.com/introd.html

i. History of Islamic Science

http://www.islamset.com/heritage/history.html

ii. History of Muslim Pharmacology

http://www.islamset.com/heritage/pharmacy/index.html

History of Islamic Biomedicine (links to many articles on this topic, including chronology of Muslim civilization) http://www.mic.ki.se/Arab.html

Numbers

http://www.islamic-paths.org/Home/English/History/Literature/Arabic_Numerals.htm

Environment

Islam and the Environment, theory and practice (Dr. Mawil Izzi Dien)

http://www.lampeter.ac.uk/trs/staffgallery/mawil_paper.html

(Article) Islam and Ecology

http://www.crosscurrents.org/islamecology.htm

History and Civilization

History of Islamic Civilization

http://www.islamset.com/islam/civil/index.html

– and –

http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/islam/islamsbook.html

IV.

Islam in Southeast Asia i. Medieval Manuscripts

http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/india/1655bernier.html

ii. History of the Mughals

http://www.wsu.edu:8080/~dee/MUGHAL/MUGHAL.HTM

Human Rights

HIGHCOMMISSIONERFORHUMANRIGHTSORGANIZINGEXPERTSEMINARTODISCUSS ISLAMIC PERSPECTIVES ON UNIVERSAL DECLARATION OF HUMAN RIGHTS (press release) http://www.unhchr.ch/huricane/huricane.nsf/view01/F46C9D5A47F671DB802566AD005BB845?opendocument

(Article) Human Rights and Islam: Some Points of Convergence and Divergence (Ali Salman)

http://www.renaissance.com.pk/octvipo2y1.html

(Article – good one) Antecedents of the idea of Human Rights: A Survey of Perspectives (Polly Vizard) (Section 3.1) http://www.undp.org/hdro/Vizard2000.html

(Article – with reference to specific scholars) Muslim Support for Human Rights

http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Parthenon/7185/Religion/muslim.hr.htm

http://www.islamagainstextremism.com/articles/gmdsi-the-cold-war-on-british-muslims—report-on-anti-muslim.cfm

Influence of Islamic Culture on Western Civilization

http://www.netiran.com/Htdocs/Clippings/Social/950300XXSO02.html

– and – http://www.ais.org/~bsb/Herald/Previous/95/science.html (The Middle Ages) -and – http://mercury.spaceports.com/~islam/index2.htm (The Renaissance)

Islam in Africa

The Advent of Islam in Africa

http://web-dubois.fas.harvard.edu/DuBois/Baobab/narratives/islam/islam.html

– and – http://web-dubois.fas.harvard.edu/dubois/baobab/narratives/islam/WestTrade.html (West Africa) – and – http://baobab.harvard.edu/narratives/islam/EastTrade.html (East Africa)

http://www.arches.uga.edu/~godlas/hunwick.html

Accounts of Ibn Battuta’s Travels

http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/source/1354-ibnbattuta.html

 

Treatment of Minorities http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/source/pact-umar.html (The Pact of Umar) – and – http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/jewish/jews-umar.html (The Pact of Umar, another version) – and – http://www.islamfortoday.com/minorities.htm

Woman’s Contribution to Islamic Thought

Women and the Interpretation of Islamic Sources (Heba Raouf Ezzat)

http://www.islam21.net/pages/keyissues/key2-6.htm

Women in Islam (Jamal Badawi)

http://www.iad.org/books/S-women.html

EssaysandpositionpapersonWomen’sRightsinIslam(MuslimWomen’sLeague)

http://www.mwlusa.org/publications.html

Pluralism & Civil Society

ReligionandCivilisationalDialogue(SeyyedHosseinNasr)

http://www.islam21.net/pages/keyissues/key3-18.htm

Democratic Principles: An Islamic Point of View (Azizah Al- Hibri)

http://www.islam21.net/pages/keyissues/key3-6.htm

The Arts and Humanities

Overview of Islamic Literature

http://www.library.cornell.edu/colldev/mideast/islamlit.htm

– and –

http://www.pbs.org/empires/islam/cultureliterature.html

History and types of Islamic Literature

http://search.ebi.eb.com/ebi/article/0,6101,34778,00.html

By Region

VII.

Pakistan

http://islamic-arts.org/2011/sadequain’s-islamic-calligraphy/

Urdu Literature

http://www.urdustudies.com/pdf/20/06Oesterheld.pdf

Sufism Tassawuf

http://www.allamaiqbal.com/publications/journals/review/oct88/5.htm

Middle East (Arabic, Persian, Turkish) (a) Overview of Persian Literature

http://www.bartleby.com/65/pe/Perslit.html

(b) Overview of Iraqi Literature

http://www.nv.cc.va.us/home/nvbrada/braddog/Literature/Literature.html

 

D. Art

(c) Overview of Turkish Islamic Literature

http://turkey.org/culture/c_liter2.htm

ii. Central Asia (a) (Article) Literature in Turko-Islamic Culture

http://eurasianews.com/erc/004cam.htm

iii. South Asia

(a) Islamic Literature in Indonesia

http://www.indonesianheritage.com/Encyclopedia/Early_Modern_History/Islam_And_Port_Sultans/Islamic_Literat ure/islamic_literature.html

– and –

http://www.indonesianheritage.com/Encyclopedia/Ancient_History/Heritage_Of_Indonesian/Early_Islamic_Literatu re/early_islamic_literature.html

i. Overview of Islamic Art

http://www.pbs.org/empires/islam/cultureart.html

ii. Introduction to Islamic Art

http://www.lacma.org/islamic_art/islamic.htm

iii. (Article) Muslim Art in Contemporary Britain

http://www.guardian.co.uk/Archive/Article/0,4273,3950810,00.html

iv. (Article) Turkish Islamic Art

http://sircasaray.turkiye.org/anadolu/tezhib.html

v. Calligraphy (Articles by Mamoun Sakkal)

http://www.sakkal.com/ArtArabicCalligraphy.html

E. Photo Galleries i. Online Museum Exhibitions of Islamic Art

(a) Detroit Institute of Art

http://www.dia.org/collections/ancient/islamicart/islamicart.html

(b) Metropolitan Museum of Art http://www.metmuseum.org/collections/department.asp?dep=14 (click on “VIEW 1 AT A TIME” on top)

(c) Los Angeles County Museum of Art

http://www.lacma.org/islamic_art/thumbnails/thmbnail.htm

(d) Tarek Rajab Museum (Kuwait)

http://www.trmkt.com/Gallery.htm

ii. Images of Islam

http://www.tulane.edu/~MECCA/images/images_islam.html

iii. Peter Sanders Photography

http://www.middleeastuk.com/culture/art/sanders/gallery.htm

– and –

http://www.ummah.org.uk/sanders/gallery.htm

iv. Islamic Art and Architecture http://www.islamicart.com/main/architecture/index.html (click on “Gallery”)

v.

Links to other Islamic Art sites (Art and Architecture)

http://islamicity.com/education/culture/

– and – http://www.islamicart.com/ (Islamic Arts and Architecture Organization: good source on images and articles: Architecture, Calligraphy, Coins, Oriental Rugs)

F. Music

i. Project compiling music from Islamic Countries

http://www.blacksun.com/islam.htm

ii. Persian Music

http://www.pbs.org/visavis/BTVPages/Persian_trad_music.html

Sampler of Muslim World Music (requires RealPlayer) http://www.arches.uga.edu/~godlas/IslArt.html#Music

VIII. Architecture

A. Overview of Islamic Architecture

http://www.pbs.org/empires/islam/culturearch.html

B. Brief History of Islamic Architecture

http://users.telerama.com/~jdehullu/islam/frames.htm

C. EssaysonPrinciplesofIslamicArchitecture http://www.islamicart.com/main/architecture/index.html (click on “Articles”)

D. (Article)ImagesinPersianarchitecture

http://www.persianart.net/libreries/article/PEACOCK.htm

E. (Article) Muslim Spain

http://www.suite101.com/article.cfm/4205/22279

F. (Article) Turkish Mosques

http://www.suite101.com/article.cfm/arabic_islamic_architecture/20882

G. (Article) Taj Mahal

http://www.suite101.com/article.cfm/arabic_islamic_architecture/25875

H. Links to other Islamic Architecture sites (Art and Architecture)

http://islamicity.com/education/culture/

IX. Biographies

A. Brief biographies of major figures in Islamic civilization

http://members.tripod.com/~wzzz/

– and – Muslim Scientists, Mathematicians, and Astronomers before the European Renaissance (700 – 1500 A.D.) – listing of scholars and articles on different aspects of civilization in the Muslim world http://users.erols.com/zenithco/index.html

B. Scientists

i. Ibn Khaldun (historiography) – comprehensive links to websites with biographies, articles and excerpts of his writings http://www.isidore-of-seville.com/ibnkhaldun/

ii. Tabari (historiography)

http://www.mala.bc.ca/~mcneil/tabarit.htm

– and –

http://users.erols.com/zenithco/tabari.html

– and –

http://members.tripod.com/~wzzz/TABARI.html

iii. Khawarezmi (math, chemistry)

iv. Ibn Rushd (Averroes)

v. Ibn Sina (Avicenna)

http://www.britannica.com/eb/article?eu=11566&tocid=0

– and –

http://www.ummah.net/history/scholars/ibn_sina/

– and –

http://www-history.mcs.st-andrews.ac.uk/history/Mathematicians/Avicenna.html

vi. Al-Farabi vii. Al-Razi (physician, introduced concept of “hospital”, vaccine for small pox) viii. Ibn Al-Haytham (optometry)

C. Poets and Writers

i. Rumi http://www.age-of-the-sage.org/sources/rumi.html (look up) – and – http://www.armory.com/~thrace/sufi/ (Selected poems)

ii. Khalil Gibran iii. Omar Khayyam

http://www.ucalgary.ca/applied_history/tutor/islam/learning/khayyam.html

iv. TheTravels of IbnBatuta

http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/source/batuta.html

D. Music

i. Yusuf Islam ii. Umm Kulthum

http://almashriq.hiof.no/egypt/700/780/umKoulthoum/

Bibliography

Brentwood School Online: Islamic Culture (website created by students compiling essays written and a photo gallery) http://www.bwscampus.com/School/Hist/NWWC/islamic-culture.html

UNESCO book, Different Aspects of Islamic Culture

http://www.unesco.org/culture/aic/html_eng/volumes.htm

Providence Library compiled a suggested book list on the following topics:

Arts of Islam and the Arabic World http://www.provlib.org/community/links/arabicartlist.htm Music of Islam and the Arabic World http://www.provlib.org/community/links/arabmusic.htm Literature of Islam and the Arabic World http://www.provlib.org/community/links/arablit.htm

http://www.mei.columbia.edu/HANDOUT13.PDF