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Most Muslims, like many other people around the world, welcomed a Barack Obama presidency with great expectations. Many identified with the fact that President Barack Hussein Obama has a “Muslim name” and that he lived in Indonesia, the country with the largest Muslim population, as a child...Read full letter
The theme of Islam and democracy continues to receive a great deal of attention from policy makers, scholars, the media, and even the general population of many countries in the world. Democracy is an idea and a set of practices that emerged in ancient Athens millennia ago, vanished around 320 BCE, and only reappeared in Europe around the seventeenth century, principally in the works of writers such as John Locke (1632–1704). The essential idea, that the people... More
Compare events in the West and in the Islamic world from 1066, the year of England's conquest by the Normans. Go
Nearly 4000 entries from esteemed Oxford works, including the recently published Oxford Encyclopedia of the Islamic World, and more
Learning Resources, including the acclaimed Teaching Islam, a guide for educators
Primary source documents with editorial introductions
Qur’anic studies resources, including two Oxford World's Classics translations of the Qur'an, linked to the first online version of A Concordance of the Qur’an by Hanna Kassis
Answers to commonly asked questions about Islam, including "What are the core beliefs that unite Muslims?" and "What is the difference between Sunni and Shii Muslims?"
Timelines covering major events in the Islamic world and corresponding events in general world history for context
Images and Maps provide visual perspectives on global Islam and its historic development