Trusted resources for Qur’an, Hadith, Islamic scholarship, education, and community information. For personal religious rulings, please consult a qualified scholar.
| Priority resource | Suggested website description | Authority / verification |
|---|---|---|
| Al‑Azhar Al‑Sharif | One of the world’s foremost Sunni institutions of Islamic learning, offering scholarship and educational resources in the traditional Islamic sciences. | Al‑Azhar’s official materials describe it as a major global Islamic religious and academic institution; its translation center states that published topics undergo review. |
| Egypt’s Dar al‑Ifta | Egypt’s official fatwa institution, providing English and Arabic answers grounded in established Sunni jurisprudence and contemporary scholarly research. | Dar al‑Ifta describes itself as a governmental nonprofit religious institution and discusses its work through the established Sunni legal schools and recognized fiqh authorities. |
| Jordan General Iftaa Department | Jordan’s official Iftaa Department, publishing fatwas, scholarly research, and council decisions using an established madhhab-based methodology. | Established in Jordan in 1921; the official site describes the Iftaa Council, its legal structure, its scholarly membership, and its fatwa methodology. It currently publishes both Arabic and English material. |
| Fiqh Council of North America | A North American council of Muslim scholars providing fatwas and guidance on issues affecting Muslims in the United States and Canada. | The official site identifies its executive and council members and distinguishes council fatwas approved by all members; it also maintains a North American Islamic calendar. |
| International Islamic Fiqh Academy | An OIC scholarly academy bringing jurists together for collective Islamic legal research and resolutions on contemporary issues. | IIFA is an OIC subsidiary established in 1981; its members include eminent jurists and scholars and its statute directs it to address contemporary issues from the Qur’an, Sunnah and Islamic jurisprudential heritage. |
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|---|---|---|
| King Fahd Glorious Qur’an Printing Complex | Official digital Mushaf and Qur’anic publication resources from the King Fahd Glorious Qur’an Printing Complex. | The Complex provides Qur’anic text tools and official publications, including Madinah Mushaf resources and Qur’an-sciences material. |
| Altafsir.com | A scholarly Qur’anic studies library from the Royal Aal al‑Bayt Institute containing classical tafsir, translations, recitation and Qur’anic sciences in Arabic and English. | Established by the Royal Aal al‑Bayt Institute; the site describes its scholarly checking process and includes a favorable assessment from Al‑Azhar’s Ahmad al‑Tayyib. |
| Quran.com | A free multilingual platform for reading, listening to, searching and studying the Qur’an with translations, tafsir and word-by-word tools. | Supported by Quran.Foundation, a U.S. nonprofit. It should be labeled a study platform, not a fatwa authority. |
| Tanzil | A digital Qur’an-text project focused on providing a precise, verified text for websites and applications. | Current official destination is Tanzil.net. |
| Quranic Arabic Corpus | A word-by-word linguistic resource for studying Qur’anic Arabic grammar, morphology, syntax and vocabulary. | Open-source research project, originally associated with University of Leeds language research and now maintained by the Quran.com team. |
| Priority resource | Suggested website description | Authority / verification |
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| Sunnah.com | A searchable Arabic and English reference library containing the major Sunni hadith collections and other classical hadith works. | Its current library includes Sahih al‑Bukhari, Sahih Muslim, the four Sunan, Muwatta Malik, Musnad Ahmad and numerous other collections; Quran.Foundation lists it among its supported projects. |
| Dorar al‑Saniyyah / Arabic | A scholarly supervised Arabic/English resource covering authenticated hadith, tafsir, fiqh, sīrah, ethics and Islamic history. | The English site identifies a scientific-supervision authority including a judge, scholarly adviser and university faculty, while the Arabic site provides a dedicated hadith-verification encyclopedia. |
| Priority resource | Suggested website description | Authority / verification |
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| Zaytuna College | An accredited Muslim liberal-arts college offering formal study rooted in the Islamic scholarly tradition. | The old page still calls it “Zaytuna Institute”; the current institution is Zaytuna College and offers undergraduate and graduate study related to the Islamic scholarly tradition. |
| Islamic Society of North America | A major North American Muslim organization providing community, convention and institutional resources. | Active official organization; it should be labeled a community institution rather than a source of binding religious rulings. |
| Islamic Horizons | ISNA’s current magazine covering Muslim community, institutions, ideas and issues in North America. | The magazine remains active; this replaces the website’s obsolete description referring to online issues available “as of December, 2009.” |
