(intellectual curiosity)
Educational
resources
Websites
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www.al-islam.org
Lots of articles and books, hard to navigate but an essential resource worth exploring
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www.wikishia.net
Wikipedia style resource with good pages on concepts and history, biographies of the Prophet and imams, biographies of scholars
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www.almizan.org
Full translation of ʿAllāmah Ṭabāṭabāʾī’s Commentary of the Qur’an – Tafsīr al-Mīzān – perhaps the most important Shīʿi tafsīr of the modern period
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https://www.icit-digital.org/people/hamid-algar
The collected works of Dr. Hamid Algar who is one of the foremost scholars of Islam, including Shīʿī Islam and contemporary Muslim movements. These works include the transcriptions of his class lectures on the lives of the Imams of the Family of the Prophet, works on Syed Qutb, Imam Khomeini, and a critique of Wahhabism among other topics.
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https://al-quran.info/#home
A useful website with the whole Qurʾan. It allows you to choose multiple translations to compare shades of meaning and has various reciters to listen to the recitation of the Qurʾanic verses. It also contains a useful search feature – search the Arabic text, by Arabic root, and by translation.
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www.tanzil.net/
A Qurʾan website with translations, recitation player, and a layout of the Arabic text in muṣḥaf form. It also contains a useful search feature – search the Arabic text and by Arabic root.
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https://corpus.quran.com/
"An annotated linguistic resource which shows the Arabic grammar, syntax and morphology for each word in the Holy Quran. The corpus provides three levels of analysis: morphological annotation, a syntactic treebank and a semantic ontology."
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https://www.al-sidrah.com/
"Al-Sidrah is published by the International Centre For Advanced Islamic Research (ICAIR) & the Ahl al-Bayt Islamic Seminary. With contributions from the ICAIR and the Seminary faculty, students, and guest scholars, al-Sidrah is a publication that explores various dimensions of Islamic thought in written and multimedia forms."