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Suggestions for Further Reading and Internet Resourc e s 3 1 3you can search the Qur’an in English, choosing from the texts of three alternateEnglish translations: those of Mohammed Marmaduke Pickthall, Yu s u fAli, and M. H. Shakir. At http://www. u s c . e d u / d e p t / M S A / f u n d a m e n t a l s /hadithsunnah/, you can also search English translations of some of the majorMuslim h a d i t h c o l l e c t i o n s .Beyond these sites for the Qur’an and h a d i t h , the Internet Islamic HistorySourcebook, at http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/islam/islamsbook.html, containslinks to a wealth of primary source documents in English translation. Theseinclude readings in the fields of Islamic law, theology, mysticism, and history, aswell as the works of a number of modern Muslim writers. The Web site of ProfessorAlan Godlas at the University of Georgia (http://www.uga.edu/islam/) is aninvaluable resource for Islamic studies. There one can find links and archives fora whole range of topics relating to the study of Islam and Muslim societies, includingthe events of September 11, 2001, and Islam, Muslim women andw o m e n ’s rights, and Islamic history, as well as images, population figures, andmaps for various countries of the Muslim world. For an excellent review of currentscholarship on nearly every part of the contemporary Muslim world, downloadthe newsletter of the Institute for the Study of Islam in the Modern Wo r l dunder the publications section of their Web site, http://www. i s i m . n l / .Over the past few years, PBS has produced a number of films that can behelpful guides to the study of Islam. F ro n t l i n e’s show “Muslims” is a very goodintroduction to some of the major issues facing communities and to the diversityof Muslim opinions on them around the world. The Web site for this program,http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/muslims/, containslinks and resources including video clips of interviews with “ordinary Muslims”living in New York, Nigeria, and elsewhere around the world. The PBS programIslam: Empire of Faith offers more background information on earlier periodsof Islamic history, especially the Ottoman Empire. Its Web site,h t t p : / / w w w.pbs.org/empires/islam/index.html, includes an interactive timeline of Islamic history. One can also take a “virtual h a jj ” on the Web site forP B S ’s M u h a m m a d at http://www. p b s . o r g / m u h a m m a d / i n d e x . s h t m l .2. Islam after Empire: Turkey and the Arab Middle EastPrimary Sources Available in EnglishAl-Banna, Hasan. 1978. Five Tracts of Hasan al-Banna (1906–1949). Tr a n s l a t e dby Charles Wendell. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press.This collection contains translations of texts produced by Hasan al-Banna,the founder of the Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood.