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Information about courses, research programs, staffing, and publications, from the Catholic University of Louvain, Belgium. Includes details of the Eurislam Bibliographical Network. (French and English)
http://www.cismoc.ucl.ac.be/
Describes courses offered and research undertaken at the University of Birmingham (UK). Includes a newsletter.
http://www.theology.bham.ac.uk/postgrad/islam/intro.htm
A basic outline of a variety of introductory and comphrensive academic resources needed to embark on studying Islam and the Muslim world.
http://ccat.sas.upenn.edu/~brvs/pages/essentia.html
A comprehensive, non-polemical, non-sectarian academic resource on Islam designed for students, scholars, and the general public.
http://www.arches.uga.edu/~godlas
A world listing of libraries and information centres with Islamic collections.
http://www.geocities.com/Athens/...9485/listofislamiclibraries.html
Private, non-profit, non-political organization of scholars and other persons interested in the study of the Middle East, North Africa and the Islamic world.
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MESA Home Page The Middle East Studies Association (MESA) is a non-political association that fosters the study of the Middle East, promotes high standards of scholarship and teaching, and encourages public understanding of the region and its peoples through programs, publications and services...The American Academy of Religion maintains listings of opportunities for graduate study and research into Islam.
http://groups.colgate.edu/aarislam/default.htm
Housed at the University of Wales, Lampeter, the CIS offers undergraduate and postgraduate opportunities to study many aspects of Islam and Muslims in-depth - in both historical and contemporary contexts.
http://www.lamp.ac.uk/cis/
Course outline for this Cornell subject which offers a survey of Islamic history from the lifetime of the Prophet to the Mongol conquest of Baghdad.
http://instruct1.cit.cornell.edu/Courses/nes257/nes.html
Housed at the University of Melbourne, Australia, offering undergraduate and postgraduate Arabic and Islamic studies programmes as well as public seminars and conferences.
http://www.islamic.unimelb.edu.au/
Information about OCIS academic programmes, fellowships, scholarships, seminars and public lectures as well as its "Journal of Islamic Studies".
http://www.oxcis.ac.uk/
Virginia based School of Islamic and Social Sciences offering graduate programs in Islamic studies and social sciences.
http://www.siss.edu/
The International Institute for the Study of Islam in the Modern World (ISIM) promotes and conducts interdisciplinary research on contemporary social and intellectual trends and movements in Muslim societies and communities.
http://www.isim.nl/
Information on degree courses available at the University of Birmingham, and on the Centre for the Study of Islam and Christian-Muslim Relations.
http://www.theology.bham.ac.uk/postgrad/islam/
A multi-disciplinary publication dedicated to the scholarly study of all aspects of Islam and of the Islamic world.
http://jis.oupjournals.org/
Based at the University of Gent, Belgium. Multilingual site describing their activities, publications, and conferences.
http://www.flwi.ugent.be/cie/
Virginia based school of Islamic and Social Sciences offering graduate programs in Islamic studies and social sciences.
http://www.cordobauniversity.org/gsiss/