Islami City
Islami City: The Prayer Performance
Instructions for performing prayer, or Salat, with diagrams to show positions for praying and English translations of the daily prayers. Includes six Real Player movies showing how to perform the prayers.
Islami City
Islami City: Prayer Timings
This site provides a basic summary of the prayers to be performed every day according to Islamic tradition. Each of the five daily prayers is briefly summarized and for each, there is a Real Player movie.
Islami City
Islami City: The Partial Ablution
Here are basic instructions for partial and full ablution, the performance of cleaning and purification, which is required before prayer in the Muslim tradition.
Islami City
Islami City: Islam History the Rightly Guided Caliphs
Good article on the first four caliphs of Islam. The reign of each is summarized briefly, emphasizing their most important attributes, actions, and contributions to the Islamic community.
Islami City
Islami city.com: The Five Pillars of Islam
This website provides basic information on each of the Five Pillars of Islam, "the framework of the Muslim Life" - faith, prayer, "zakat," fast, and pilgrimage.
Islami City
Islami City: Hajj: The Journey of a Lifetime
In-depth look at Hajj, the pilgrimage that Muslims are obligated to take. Includes pictures and detailed descriptions of each day's events, as well as information on the landmarks visited during pilgrimage.
ibiblio
Ibiblio: The Mediterranean World
This website contains information about the people using the Mediterranean during the Renaissance. Mentions cultural diversity, humanism, economics and port cities. Includes the setting, cultural diversity, and changing order of the...
BBC
Bbc: The Story of Africa: Islam
This BBC series site charts the growth of Islam in Africa until the 1880s.
Middle East Policy Council
Mepc: Teach Mideast: Palestine
In an effort to educate on the Middle East and Islam, the MEPC presents this overview of Palestine.
American Public Media
American Radioworks: Why Are They So Angry at Us
A look at the anger and resentment aimed at America from the Middle Eastern nations. This article gives an overview of relations beginning with the Crusades and proceeding into modern times with interviews of people from the Arab...
Internet History Sourcebooks Project
Fordham University: Jewish History Sourcebook: Expulsion From Spain
This site from the Fordham University gives a detailed and accurate picture of the expulsion and its immediate consequences for Spanish Jewry. It was written in Hebrew by an Italian Jew in April or May, 1495.
Internet History Sourcebooks Project
Fordham University: Medieval Sourcebook: Ibn Rushd Religion & Philosophy
Online text by Ibn Rushd. "This text is known in English as 'On the Harmony of Religions and Philosophy,' in Arabic 'Kitab fasl al-maqal,' with its appendix Damina). Also appended is an extract from Kitab al-kashf`an manahij al-adilla."...
Internet History Sourcebooks Project
Fordham University: Medieval Sourcebook: Life of Muhammad
This site, which is provided for by the Fordham University, gives a selection from Ibn Ishaq's biography of Muhammad written a century after his death.
Islami City
Islami city.com: Prayer Channel 17
Here are several videos of Islam prayers recorded from IslamiCity.
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Wide Angle: Ataturk
This Wide Angle video segment illustrates Islamic and secular elements of life in Turkey, and introduces Mustafa Kemal Ataturk, the first president of Turkey, and his reforms. Focuses on fashion, specifically Islamic dress in response to...
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Industry and Islam
This Wide Angle video segment explores economic and religious development in Kayseri, a city in central Turkey.
Princeton University
Princeton University: Maps of the Islamic Middle East
This site from the Princeton University includes a map collection from Roolvink's "Atlas of the Middle East" with a variety of historical maps on Islam.
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Wide Angle: Diverse Turkish Women
This Wide Angle video segment compares two women in Turkey, one from a more religious family, and the other from a more secular family. [3:51]
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Political Debate in Turkey
A hot topic of debate in Turkey is the possibility of an increasingly Islamic state in this historically secular country. Learn more in this video from Wide Angle.
CNN
Cnn: Bush: Iraq Crucial in War on Terror
President George W. Bush discusses the war in Iraq and its importance to fighting terrorism in this October, 2005 article. Also find statistics about the war, links to other war links, interactive resources, etc.
PBS
News Hour: Afghans' Rising Fury (2005)
Protests against the United States increased in Afghanistan in May, 2005. Read about Guantanamo Bay, the protest marches, and excerpts from U.S. government officials. Video, audio, and a transcript of this report are available.
TED Talks
Ted: Ted Ed: Islam, the Quran, and the Five Pillars
Gain insight into Islam- the people, the places, the practices, and the historical significance. [12:52]
TED Talks
Ted: Ted Ed: On Reading the Koran
Lesley Hazleton sat down one day to read the Koran. With serious scholarship and warm humor, Hazleton shares the grace, flexibility and mystery she found, in this myth-debunking talk. [9:34]
PBS
Pbs: Views and Ideas of Muhammad
A series of six articles dealing with Muhammad and Islam. The topics include: women, violence and jihad, other religions, America, the Qur'an and the Jews of Medina. Requires the Real Player plug-in.