Middle East & Islamic Studies

Department of Arabic and Islamic Studies at Georgetown University offers a variety of information regarding academic programs, resources and current events outlined on this webpage.

Islamic Studies at Swarthmore College is an interdisciplinary program that focuses on the diverse range of lived experiences and textual traditions of Muslims as across the fields of Religion, Anthropology, History, and Arabic language and literature.

The Center for Middle Eastern Studies (CMES) was founded in 1954 at Harvard University. This mandate features a primary emphasis on the centuries since the rise of Islam and a concern with the wider Islamic world.

This undergraduate department offers both a liberal arts concentration in a Near Eastern language and a broad knowledge of the civilizations, history, and literatures of the ancient, medieval, and modern Near East and beyond.

Long history of Near Eastern language and literature studies and rich resources.

An annotated linguistic resource which shows the Arabic grammar, syntax and morphology for each word in the Holy Quran.

The largest online collection of commentaries on the Qur’an from a wide variety of viewpoints in the world.

The Middle East Documentation Center, University of Chicago

Examination of Arabic legal documents from a new, comparative perspective.

An Image Database of Persian Historical Documents from Iran and Central Asia up to the 20th Century

A searchable database of classical Arabic texts

A library of downloadable Arabic texts

Searchable texts in Classical Arabic

University of Michigan Library research guide.