Al-islam.org

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Al-Islam.org is a project of the Ahlul Bayt Digital Islamic Library Project. It is a prominent site for Shia Islam on the Internet.

1 Overview
2 Facts and Figures
3 Content
4 Trivia
5 See also
6 References
7 External links

[edit] Overview

Al-Islam.org is one of the most well-known Islamic websites. The site is has a multilingual user-friendly interface, which includes a full alphabetical & topical index, with the ability to filter resources by language & media type. It is continuing to expand the textual portion of its library, which consists of the full text translation of most significant Islamic texts along with almost 400 other full-length texts and over 300 short articles from a variety of contemporary and classical sources. A search engine allows readers to search for keywords in all the online texts.

While the majority of the texts currently available in the library are English translations, the DILP has taken initiative to provide texts in other languages like Italian, Spanish, Arabic, Swahili, Gujarati and Urdu.

[edit] Facts and Figures

It's also the top site in Yahoo!'s list of Shia sites by popularity ^[1]

It also contains the "Shi'ite Encyclopedia", the second place site in Yahoo!'s list of Shia sites by popularity ^[2]

[edit] Content

[edit] Multimedia Gallery

The multimedia portion of Al-Islam.org is known as the "Islamic Gallery". Currently available in audio and/or video format are the recordings of lectures, supplications, eulogies/elegies, and recitation of the Qur’an. The audio and video collection is one of the largest such collections of Islamic multimedia available on Internet. The Gallery also contains a number of photo galleries. These galleries are usually centered on a given topic or genre. Available are galleries of Islamic calligraphy, collections focused on places visited for ziyarat, and more.

[edit] Ongoing Projects

The Multilingual Qur’an: A fully searchable Multilingual Qur’an with Arabic text, English translations, and commentary by Mahdi Puya / S.V. Mir Ahmed Ali. The Online Qur’an is currently undergoing an upgrade to include features such as multiple Commentaries, browsing by Root-words and Topics.
Journal Archvies: Archives of journal articles from scholarly magazines such as Al-Serat ^[3], Al-Tawheed, and Al-Thaqalayn.
The Event of Ghadir Khumm project ^[4]: A scholarly examination and presentation of the source and narrators of the tradition of al-Ghadir.
Islam in a Nutshell: Fact sheets about Islam and Shi’ism translated into numerous languages including Albanian, Bosnian, German, Swedish, and Thai.

[edit] Full online books

[edit] Other

Jami' al-Sa'adat (The Collector of Felicities) by Muhammad Mahdi ibn abi Dharr al-Naraqi online
Imamate: The Vicegerency of the Prophet (s) by Sayyid Sa'eed Akhtar Rizvi — read online
Islam In The Bible by Thomas McElwain — read online

[edit] Articles

Tahrif: Investigating Distortions in Islamic Texts — read online

[edit] Reviews

Book Review: Modern Political Islamic Thought — read online

[edit] Trivia

On 2006-08-11, it main page prominently included the following message:

The Ahlul Bayt DILP team strongly condemns the on-going massacre of Lebanese civilians as well as the indiscriminate destruction of Lebanese infrastructure perpetrated by the Israeli forces.