For information on our MA program in Religion with a concentration in Arabic and Islamic Studies, see the page, Courses Taught and Programs Supervised by Dr. Godlas (link fixed 26 December 2005).

For information on programs for intensive study of Arabic abroad see the article Arabic Study Programs in the Arab World, by Professors Barbara R. von Schlegell and John Hayes. (Fixed, July 4, 1999; December 29, 2002)

Scholarships for Study Abroad

The University System of Georgia Board of Regents awards scholarships for study abroad to students who are enrolled in a University System of Georgia School (link fixed 26 December 2005). Any student in the University System of Georgia in good standing can apply study abroad scholarships. The scholarships can be used on any study abroad program, not just programs in the System. Students must send their scholarship applications directly to the institution at which they are enrolled in a degree program. UGA students should submit their applications at the Office of International Education (link fixed 13 March 2005). Deadlines are posted for each study abroad program.

The new application for annual study abroad opportunities is ready. Information on it and other scholarships for UGA students is available at Office of International Education site (link fixed, Dec. 7, 2003).

Note that Georgia residents who qualify for a Hope scholarship can use their scholarship to study abroad.

Al-Mawsu'a al-shamila (The Comprehensive Encyclopedia) is a online and searchable library of roughly 5000 books including most of the major classical Arabic Islamic texts. It is organized in three large categories (each of which has a number of subcategories): 1) Doctrines and the Sciences of the Qur'an and Hadith; 2) The Sciences of Islamic Jurisprudence; and 3) Other Sciences
Each one of these broad categories can be searched, which can be a time saver. Also, the entire website accepts Boolean searches, in which by enclosing a phrase in quotation marks, the search will only produce results that have the search terms in the order enclosed by quotation marks. All of the subcategories and the titles included therein can be viewed at Khizanat al-kutub (The Repository of the Books). The books in each subcategory can be searched by clicking on the subcategory from this Khizanat page.

A smaller but very useful online collection of classical Arabic Islamic texts is at www.muhaddith.org Researchers can choose whatever books they want to search. In particular its copy of Lisan al-'arab (in the subcategory of Ma'ajim) is vocalized (and well-formatted in the search results).

Al-Waraq On-line Library of Classical Arabic Texts This used to be a very useful searchable database, but now, unfortunately, there is a $90 yearly fee (or $10 per month). Containing over a million pages in Arabic organized in the following categories: Adab, History, Ansab, Geography and Travelogues, Hadith, Tarajim, Philosophy and Logic, 'Ulum al-qur'an, 'Ulum al-hadith, 'Ulum al-lugha, 'Aqida, Medicine, Interpretation of Dreams, Sufism, Bibliography, and Miscellaneous sciences. Among its dictionaries are the two most comprehensive Arabic-Arabic dictionaries:

Nida' al-Iman, a vast online Arabic book library, including one of my favorite Arabic books, Kashf al-khafa' and the important Arabic-Arabic dictionary Qamus al-muhit of Fayruzabadi.

Al-Islam.com, which in Arabic is titled "Mawqi' al-Islam" (The Site of Islam), has a large collection of classical Arabic Islamic texts, among its many aspects. Its Hadith Library is particularly rich, containing each of the nine major Sunni hadith collections, as well as the major commentaries on the most important of these collections, and (toward the top on the right sided) both a basic and sophisticated search engine (click on "bahth mutaqqadim" in the middle of the search box) that will search any or all of the books contained in the Hadith library, including the commentaries. See as well its Tafsir Library, containing the Qur'an commentaries (in Arabic) of Tabari, Qurtubi, Ibn Kathir, and Jalalayn.

Al-Tafsir.comThe most comprehensive online collection of tafsirs (Qur'an commentaries). While currently the vast majority of the tafsirs are all in Arabic (although the site does contain translations of the Qur'an in numerous languages), in the future more Qur'an commentaries translated into English will also be included. Among the translations now on-line is the well-known Tafsir al-Jalalayn.

Kitabkhanah-ye Islami (Islamic Library) a number of important Islamic texts in Arabic, largely (but by no means completely) Shi'i texts (fixed Dec. 11, 2003). It contains an online version of the important Arabic-Arabic dictionary Lisan al-'arab. This collection includes a compilation of the names and brief descriptions of those who were said to have fabricated or forged hadiths. Al-Wadda'un wa-ahadithuhum al-mawdu'ah (Fabricators and Their Fabricated Hadith).

al-Shifa (The Healing) of Qadi 'Iyad (d. 544/1149-50), the Arabic text is online here. This is probably the most important hagiography of the Prophet Muhammad (s). It has been translated into English by Ayesha Bewley.

Al-Muhaddith Islamic Library (fixed March 30, 2007) Readable, Searchable and/or Downloadable Arabic Research Library for research in Arabic primary sources in Islamic Studies. You can also download Arabic-Arabic, Arabic-English, and English-Arabic dictionaries here.

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