Resources for K-12 Educators

The American Academy of Religion on Teaching Religion in K-12

Columbia University Library: Reports, Focus Areas, Resources

Harvard University Women’s Worlds in Qajar Iran (1796-1925)

The University of North Carolina Center of European Studies ReOrienting the Veil

University of Pennsylvania Middle East Center: K-12 Resources

University of Chicago Center for Middle Eastern Studies: Curriculum Resources

Harvard University Center for Middle Eastern Studies: Resources for K-12 Educators

Encyclopedia Iranica

Middle East Research and Information Project (MERIP) : Critical Coverage of the Middle East Since 1971

Jadaliyya : Ezine produced by the Arab Studies Institute

Michigan State Univeristy – African Studies Center: K-12 Programs

The University of North Carolina: Deconstructing Stereotypes Related to Islam and Muslims

Stanford Abbasi Program YouTube Channel

Stanford Abbasi Program iTunes Channel

Stanford Abbasi Program Vimeo Channel
 

Smithsonian Collections: Arts of the Islamic World (Online Gallery)

• Resources for Educators

Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Deparment of Islamic Art

• Curriculum Resources
• The Nature of Islamic Art
• Art of the Islamic World: A New Resource for Teachers (2012)

Islamic Art Exhibit: Los Angeles County Museum of Art

• Introduction to Islamic art: written by Linda Komaroff

Islamic Art, Architecture, and Music Around the World : University of Georgia

Victoria and Albert Museum’s Jameel Prize Exhibition : for contemporary art and design inspired by Islamic tradition

Columbia University Libraries Arabic Literature: Art, Poetry, Journals, and Texts

Metropolitan Museum of Art – Islamic Art and Geometric Design

The David Collection: Mostly for Kids

University of Texas Perry-Castañeda Library Map Collection

Princeton University Maps of the Islamic Middle East

Harvard University Islamic Heritage Project

Mapping the Global Muslim Population: Pew Research’s Religion and Public Life Project

• Online Ayatollah (Al Jazeera)
• Divorce Iranian Style (Iran, 1998)
• Talking to the Taliban (interviews, 2008)
• The Lizard (Iran, 2004)
• The Reluctant Fundamentalist (US/Pakistan, 2012)
• Taxi to the Dark Side (US, 2007)
• A Separation (Iran, 2011)

• Norman Calder, J. A Mojaddedi, and Andrew Rippin. Classical Islam: A Sourcebook of Religious Literature. 2nd ed. New York: Routledge, 2013.
• Jamal J. Elias. Key Themes for the Study of Islam. Oxford: Oneworld, 2010.
• Aisha’s Cushion: Religious Art, Perception, and Practice In Islam. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2012.
• Jane Dammen McAuliffe, The Cambridge Companion to the Qurʼān. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2006.
• John Renard, Windows On the House of Islam: Muslim Sources On Spirituality and Religious Life. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1998.
• Roxanne Leslie Euben, and Muhammad Qasim Zaman, Princeton Readings In Islamist Thought: Texts and Contexts From Al-Banna to Bin Laden. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2009.
• Kurzman, Charles. Modernist Islam, 1840-1940: A Sourcebook. New York: Oxford University Press, 2002.
• Liberal Islam: A Source Book. New York: Oxford University Press, 1998.
• Lloyd Ridgeon, ed., Religion and Politics in Modern Iran.  London and NY: I. B. Tauris, 2005.