Islam

Definition of Islam, Muhammad: Based on the teachings and life of Muhammad (570-632 AD) in Mecca and Medina, Saudi Arabia (then Persia). Islam is the second largest world religion, and has recently become the third largest religious body in America with over 6 million adherents. Muslim-based sects such as the Nation of Islam (which appeals especially to African-Americans) and Bahá’í (which proclaims the unity of the human race) have special appeal to many Americans. Islam is composed of two major divisions — the mainstream Sunni (the largest) and the more radical Shi’ites. The mystical tradition of Sufism includes many Sunnis and some Shi’ites. The Arabic word Islam means “submission to the will of God” and a person who submits is called a Muslim. The Qur’an (or, Koran), the Torah, the Psalms of the Old Testament, and the Gospel of the New Testament are regarded as holy books. However, only the Qur’an is considered uncorrupted. Islam rejects the Trinity doctrine, the deity of Christ and His Sonship, claiming that Jesus was only a great prophet. Muhammad is considered to be the greatest prophet, whose coming was allegedly predicted by Christ. Islam adheres fiercely to monotheism. In addition to good works, salvation is sought though observance of the Five Pillars: reciting “there is no God but Allah and Muhammad is His Messenger,” praying five times per day, fasting, giving alms (donations to the poor), and a pilgrimage to Mecca. Historically, Islam experienced tremendous growth often by forced proselytism — unbelievers (infidels) were offered conversion or death. While many Muslims exhibit tolerance towards other faiths, even today Islamic fundamentalism promotes jihad (holy war), against those of other religious and political views.

American Islam Forum for Democracy - The American Islamic Forum for Democracy's (AIFD) mission is to advocate for the preservation of the founding principles of the United States Constitution, liberty and freedom, through the separation of mosque and state. AIFD is the most prominent American Muslim organization directly confronting the ideologies of political Islam and openly countering the common belief that the Muslim faith is inextricably rooted to the concept of the Islamic State (Islamism). Founded by Dr. M. Zuhdi Jasser, AIFD looks to build the future of Islam through the concepts of liberty and freedom.

Christian Witness to Muslims - Lausanne Movement Paper.

Future of Terrorism Project - Walid Phares. In 2006, FDD established the Future of Terrorism Project (FTP) with Dr. Phares as its director. The FTP examines the strategies that will be needed to defeat the new and more lethal strains of terrorism that threaten the United States and the Free World. While the program expands the world’s knowledge of the terrorism threat through its research and analysis, Dr. Phares and project members also consult and work cooperatively with officials worldwide to develop defenses against this terrorism. The Future of Terrorism Project holds conferences with experts offering a broad spectrum of expertise from government, academia, and the international policy community. FDD’s partner organization, the European Foundation for Democracy (EFD), acts as the FTP liaison with the European Union and individual European governments.

Islam Overview: 4Truth.net - 4truth.net is maintained by the Apologetics and Interfaith Evangelism team of the North American Mission Board, an agency of the Southern Baptist Convention.

Islam: 4Truth.net - 4truth.net is maintained by the Apologetics and Interfaith Evangelism team of the North American Mission Board, an agency of the Southern Baptist Convention.

Islam: Patheos - Founded in 2008, Patheos.com is the premier online destination to engage in the global dialogue about religion and spirituality and to explore and experience the world's beliefs. Patheos is the website of choice for the millions of people looking for credible and balanced information or resources about religion. Patheos brings together the public, academia, and the faith leaders in a single environment, and is the place where people turn on a regular basis for insight into questions, issues, and discussions. Patheos is unlike any other online religious and spiritual site and is designed to serve as a resource for those looking to learn more about different belief systems, as well as participate in productive, moderated discussions on some of today's most talked about and debated topics.

Islam: Interfaith - Interfaith.org is a freely available and independent online publication, providing information on a comprehensive range of issues relating to religion, faith, and spiritual matters. Main areas of coverage include major world religions, new religions, and spiritual development. While Interfaith.org is primarily delivered for UK readers, we also aim to cover key events across the world as relevant.This service is provided by Brite Media.

Islam: Google Directory

Islam: Yahoo Directory

Muslim: AllTop

Islam: AllTop

Islam: Global Mapping International Mission InfoBank

Islam: Wabash Center Internet Guide to Religion - A selective, annotated guide provided by the Wabash Center to a wide variety of electronic resources of interest to those who are involved in the study and practice of religion: syllabi, electronic texts, electronic journals, web sites, bibliographies, liturgies, reference resources, software, etc. The purpose of the Guide is to encourage and facilitate the incorporation of electronic resources into teaching.

Islam: World Relgions Index - A resource website equipping Christians to understand other world faiths and religious philosophies.

Islam Around the World: Joshua Project - Joshua Project is a research initiative seeking to highlight the ethnic people groups of the world with the least followers of Christ. Accurate, regularly updated ethnic people group information is critical for understanding and completing the Great Commission. Jesus said in Matthew 24:14 "This gospel of the kingdom shall be preached in the whole world as a testimony to all the nations, and then the end will come." Jesus directly links His return to the fulfillment of the Great Commission. While no one knows the date or time of His return, we do know that this gospel of the kingdom must be preached to all the nations first. Revelation 5:9 and 7:9-10 show that there will be some from every tribe, tongue, nation and people before the Throne. Joshua Project seeks to answer the questions that result from the Great Commission's call to make disciples among every nation or people group: Who are the ethnic people groups of the world? Which people groups still need an initial church-planting movement in their midst? What ministry resources are available to help outreach among the least-reached? Joshua Project gathers, integrates and shares people group information to encourage pioneer church-planting movements among every ethnic group and to facilitate effective coordination of mission agency efforts.

Islam: Information Please - Information Please has been providing authoritative answers to all kinds of factual questions since 1938—first as a popular radio quiz show, then starting in 1947 as an annual almanac, and since 1998 on the Internet at www.infoplease.com. Many things have changed since 1938, but not our dedication to providing reliable information, in a way that engages and entertains. Information Please is part of Pearson, the world’s largest integrated education company. Pearson’s other primary operations include the Financial Times Group and the Penguin Group.

Islam - Monergism

Walid Phares - Dr Walid Phares is a Senior Fellow and the Director of the Future Terrorism Project at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies in Washington and a Visiting Scholar at the European Foundation for Democracy.He serves as an Advisor to the Anti-Terrorism Caucus in the US House of Representatives and has served on the Advisory Board of the Task Force on Future Terrorism of the Department of Homeland Security in 2006-2007 as well as on the Advisory Task force on Nuclear Terrorism in 2007.Dr Phares briefs and testify to the US Congress, the European Parliament and the United Nations Security Council on matters related to international security and Middle East conflict. He is a Co-Secretary General of the Transatlantic Legislative Group on Counter Terrorism, a Euro-American Caucus, since 2009. He consults with and lectures to several national security and defense agencies as well as to Counter Terrorism advisory boards in North America and Europe. Dr Phares teaches Global Strategies at the National Defense University since 2006. Previously he was a Professor of Middle East Studies and Comparative Politics at Florida Atlantic University 1993-2004. He has published several books in English, Arabic and French including the latest three post 9/11 volumes: Future Jihad: Terrorist Strategies against the West; The War of Ideas: Jihadism against Democracy and The Confrontation: Winning the War against Future Jihad. Dr Phares served as NBC Terrorism Analyst until 2006 before he joined Fox News as their Terrorism Expert. He appears on international and Arab media and is published widely.Dr Phares was born in Beirut and is a US citizen based in Washington DC.

Muslim Evangelization - Lausanne Movement Paper.

Michael Youssef - Michael Youseef is a born-again Egyptian. He is a pastor and author that addresses his view of Islam.

Islam - A resource by Muslims on Islam.

The Future of Islamic Sharia Law - A website about Islam in a secular state. This project is the current initiative of Prof. Abdullahi Ahmed An-Na'im, Charles Howard Candler Professor of Law at Emory School of Law. The project celebrates and seeks to contribute to the struggle of Islamic societies to define themselves in the context of the local and global conditions under which they live. A key aspect of this process is the constitutional and legal dimensions of the post-colonial experiences of Islamic societies, especially the relationship among Islam, state and society.

Islamic History Sourcebook - An excellent resource on the history and beliefs of Islam.

Submission - A Mulsim website on Islam.

Haddiths of Nasa'i - Nasa’i (or al Nasa) was a Shafi’ite Muslim who lived from 830-915 A.D.) 215-303 A.D.) and compiled the fifth of the six authoritative collections of Sunni hadiths. It contains 5,764 hadiths, and is called the Suand, but people typically just call it by the name of the author, Nasa’i.

Sunnah and Haddith Collection - The Haddiths are very important in Sunni Islam. While almost everyone knows that Muslims revere the Koran as their holy book, many might not know that the hadiths, are considered by most Muslims almost as authoritative as the Qur’an. In fact, the hadiths might even be more influential on Islam, just because of the large mass of many volumes of their teachings in six collections. (Some Sunni Muslims accept a seventh, Muwatta Malik, but most would go with six. Muslims have said that while it is OK for a Muslim to reject a particular hadith, or saying, if a Muslim rejects all of any of the six authoritative collections, then they are not a true Muslim.

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Transliteration of the Koran

Index of the Koran

Haddiths of Malik's Muwatta - The life and teaching of Muhammad.

Haddiths of Sunan Abu-Dawud (Partial) - The life and teaching of Muhammad.

Haddiths of Sahih Muslim - The life and teaching of Muhammad.

Center for Muslim-Jewish Engagement - University of Southern California - Mission at the Center for Muslim-Jewish Engagement is to promote dialogue, understanding and grassroots, congregational and academic partnerships among the oldest and the newest of the Abrahamic faiths while generating a contemporary understanding in this understudied area and creating new tools for interfaith communities locally, nationally and beyond. About the Center. The Center for Muslim-Jewish Engagement (CMJE) is made possible by the generosity of the Righteous Persons Foundation and the collaboration of the Omar Ibn Al Khattab Foundation, Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion, and USC's Center for Religion and Civic Culture at the College of Letters, Arts, and Sciences. CMJE provides resources, experience and expertise to enhance the understanding of Muslims and Jews about each other’s faiths, as well as increase their ability to engage with each on issues of mutual importance. The very structure of the Center, a Jewish Seminary, a Muslim Foundation and a research center housed at a secular university (USC), provides a powerful example of the benefits and possibilities of joining together for common cause. The Center for Muslim-Jewish Engagement is a community resource for training in inter-religious outreach, an online resource center for materials on Jewish-Muslim relations, and an academic think-tank. The Center addresses all three of these areas in an organized and comprehensive manner through training, outreach and resource development. Our hope is for the Center to serve as a model for respect and partnership world-wide, while advancing our understanding of the shared history of these two peoples. A common vision is possible and the Center for Muslim-Jewish Engagement works to ensure that mutual understanding becomes the norm today.

Haddiths of Sahih Bukhari -  Records concerning the life and teaching of Muhammad.

Koran Online - Read the Koran online.

Al Muhaddith - Koran, Hadith, and other Islamic legal material.

Muhammad: The Prophet of Islam - A Muslim website on Islam's prophet Muhammad.

Islam for Today - A Muslim website for Westerners seeking a knowledge and understanding of Islam. A guide to the religion of Islam, Muslim history and civilizations, the rights of women in Islam, Islam in the West and around the world today plus Muslim schools and family life.

Islamic City - A resource website on Islam by Muslims.

Islamic Gateway - Online resources on Islam by Muslims.

Islamic Studies Resources - Resources for studying Islam and the diverse perspectives of Muslims.

What is Islam? - A website by Muslims explaining Islam from their perspective.

Islam 101 - Islam 101 is an educational website by Muslims on Islam, Muslims, its theology, human relations with Muslims and non-Muslims, its history, civilization and everything else in life.

Resources on Islam - A extensive list of resources on Islam.

Encountering of the World of Islam - Encountering the World of Islam (EWI) is both a book and a course. EWI helps Christians understand Islam and foster positive relationships with Muslims. EWI looks at the whole global community of Muslims, most of whom live in South and Southeast Asia (Bangladesh, India, Indonesia, Pakistan) rather than in the Middle East, as is often supposed. We recommend EWI for anyone wanting to gain a broad Christian perspective on today's world. EWI originated with the U. S. Center for World Mission, which first sponsored a course called Perspectives on the World of Islam in 1992 and continued refining the curriculum in the years prior to September 11, 2001. The US Center for World Mission’s Perspectives Study Program served as the model and inspiration for EWI. In 2002, oversight of the course and book was transfered to Caleb Project, and in 2004 the name was changed to Encountering the World of Islam. The program is now a ministry of Pioneers.

Comparison of Jesus and Muhammad

Muhammad and the Bible - Resources on the Bible and Islam.

Muslim Hope - A Chritian website providing resources on Islam.

What the Koan Says About the Bible - A list of passages from the Koran.

Christian-Muslim Debate -  This site is owned by the Hyde Park Christian fellowship – an informal network of Christian researchers in the UK, whose primary interest is the academic study of all issues relevant to Islam and Christianity. This site provides a repository for articles and papers of particular interest to the UK situation, but which will also be useful to those elsewhere. It aims to stimulate genuine debate between Christians and Muslims on a wide range of topics. We make a careful distinction between dialogue and debate. While both are equally important, we feel that dialogue in itself is only a preparation for debate.

A Topical Study of the Koran - From a Christian perspective provided by Answering Islam.

Christian Answers to Muslims Questions - A dictionary of answers provided by Answering Islam.

Life of Muhammad - The life, teaching and miracles of Muhammad according to this website.

Answering Islam - A tremendous resourch wesbite on Islam by evangelical Christians (in numerous languages).

Biblical Stories in the Koran - A presentation of biblical stories that are included in the Koran.

Dictionary of Islam - An encylopedia of the doctrines, rites, ceremonies, customs and more concerning Islam.