Islamic, Islamist, Jihadist, and Middle Eastern Studies


  • Middle Eastern Maps
  • Jihad Watch, focusing on the role that jihad theology and ideology plays in the modern world
  • Dhimmis and Dhimmitude, the fate of Christians and Jews in Muslim Societies
  • Dhimmitude.Org, Bat Ye'or's analysis of the fate of Christians and Jews in "tolerant" Muslim Societies
  • Palestinian Media Watch, a Self-Portrait of Palestinian Society
  • What Is The Koran?, from The Atlantic, January 1999
  • A Syro-Aramiac Reading of the Koran, Ibn Warraq's review of Christoph Luxenburg's analysis of the Koran
  • Sunnah and Hadith
  • Search the Four Great Hadith Collections
  • About Al-Islam and Muslims (promoting Sunni Islam)
  • The Islam Page (promoting Sunni Islam)
  • The Shi'a Homepage (promoting 12er Shiite Islam)
  • Ismaili Web (promoting Ismaili 7er Shiite Islam)
  • Ishmaili, a general but useful "dictionary" page on Ismaili 7er Shiite Islam
  • The Zaydis of Yemen, 5er Shiite Muslims
  • The Zaydis, a more general site on Zaydi 5er Shiite Muslims
  • The Alawis of Syria, Gnostic Ismaili Shiite Muslims of Syria
  • The Druze, Gnostic Shiite Muslims whose origins are from the Fatimid Shiite Muslims
  • The Ibadis, Khariji Muslims of Oman and elsewere
  • The Yazidis, Gnostic Shiite Muslims of northwestern Iraq
  • Arab News, A Saudi Newspaper in English, frequently anti-Semitic and anti-American
  • Tehran Times, an Iranian Newspaper in English, frequently anti-Semitic and anti-American
  • The Turkish Daily News Online
  • Yemen Times, A Yemeni newspaper in English