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Organizations
American Academy of Religion - AAR
Founded in 1909, the AAR is the world's largest association of academics who research or teach topics related to religion.
Middle East Studies Association - MESA
The Middle East Studies Association (MESA) is a non-political association that fosters the study of the Middle East, promotes high standards of scholarship and teaching, and encourages public understanding of the region and its peoples through programs, publications and services that enhance education, further intellectual exchange, recognize professional distinction, and defend academic freedom.
Southeastern Commission for the Study of Religion - SECSOR
The Southeastern Commission for the Study of Religion promotes the scholarly study and teaching of religion in the Southeast and the professional development of members of its sponsoring and affiliate societies in the Southeast
Southeast Regional Middle East and Islamic Studies Seminar - SERMEISS
SERMEISS is a professional society for faculty from various fields whose common connection is the study or teaching of some aspect of the Middle East and Islamic World.
American Oriental Society - AOS
American Oriental Society's scope includes such subjects as philology, literary criticism, textual criticism, paleography, epigraphy, linguistics, biography, archaeology, and the history of the intellectual and imaginative aspects of Oriental civilizations, especially of philosophy, religion, folklore and art.
Iranian Studies Initiative - ISI
The Iranian Studies Initiative at NYU (ISI-NYU) provides an intellectual and academic space for NYU faculty members and graduate students to study Iranian history, culture and society. Supported by the Gallatin School of Individualized Study and the Kevorkian Center for Near Eastern Studies, ISI-NYU draws on faculty members from departments and centers across the University.
Journals
Journal of the American Academy of Religion - JAAR
This international quarterly journal publishes scholarly articles that cover the full range of world religious traditions together with provocative studies of the methodologies by which these traditions are explored.
Contemporary Islam: Dynamics of Muslim Life
Contemporary Islam: Dynamics of Muslim Life focuses on topical issues and takes an interdisciplinary approach that benefits from a cross-cultural perspective.
Journal of Islamic Studies
The Journal of Islamic Studies is a multi-disciplinary publication dedicated to the scholarly study of all aspects of Islam and of the Islamic world.
The Muslim World
The Muslim World is dedicated to the promotion and dissemination of scholarly research on Islam and Muslim societies and on historical and current aspects of Muslim-Christian relations. The journal includes research articles, book reviews, notices and surveys of periodicals.
International Journal of Middle East Studies - IJMES
IJMES is a quarterly journal published by Cambridge University Press under the auspices of the Middle East Studies Association of North America.
Websites/Blogs of Scholars in Islamic Studies
Islam and Islamic Studies Resources
Alan Godlas (Department of Religion, University of Georgia)
Informed Comment
Juan Cole (University of Michigan) - Thoughts on the Middle East, History, and Religion, Juan Cole is President of the Global Americana Institute
Carl Ernst
(Religious Studies Department, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill)
A specialist in Islamic studies, with a focus on West and South Asia. His published research, based on the study of Arabic, Persian, and Urdu, has been mainly devoted to the study of Islam and Sufism.
Tabsir: Insight on Islam and the Middle East
Daniel Varisco (Hofstra University) and other contributors.
Virtually Islamic: Research and News about Islam in the Digital Age
Gary R. Bunt (University of Wales-Lampeter)
Fatemeh Keshavaraz
(Department of Asian and Near Eastern
Languages and Literatures, WashingtonUniversity)
Omid Safi
(Religious Studies Department, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill)
CyberOrient
Online Journal of the Virtual Middle East. Daniel Martin Varisco and other contributors
Resources
Hadith Collection
University of Southern California, Center for Muslim-Jeiwsh Engagement
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