Languages
Arabic language and literature
Mawrid Arabic dictionary project with multiple sources (Lane, Wehr, Hawa, etc.)
Sakhr Dictionary (Arabic script)
Edward Lane’s Arabic-English Lexicon at Tyndale Archive (scanned); at Perseus Project (digitized version)
Princeton Online Arabic Poetry
al-Baheth al-Arabi (online Arabic-Arabic dictionaries)
al-Maktaba al-Shamila, downloadable Arabic texts
al-Maktaba al-Waqfiyya (www.waqfeya.com), Arabic texts online
al-Mostafa.com, more Arabic texts
Alwaraq textual database (IE 5.0)
Aramedia Arabic and Islamic studies software
Persian language and literature
Steingass’s Comprehensive Persian-English Dictionary
Dehkhoda and Mo`in dictionaries (searchable)
Dehkhoda’s Lughat-nameh (separate site)
Farsi 123 English-Persian dictionary
Dr. Karimi-Hakkak’s Persian Tutor CD
Redirected from Persian in Texas (Persian flashcards and audio recordings from the National Middle East Language Resource Center)
Persian Literature
Ganjur: hypertext Persian writings of 35 major Persian poets
Sufi Library (Ni`matollahi-Gunabadi site, numerous texts in PDF)
“Poetic Voices of the Islamic World” (NEH/Doris Duke Foundation for Islamic
Art)
Noormags offers a massive downloadable library of scholarly articles in Persian, while Noorlib has a huge searchable digital library of Persian and Arabic texts
Encyclopedia of the World of Islam (in Persian)
The Center for the Greater Islamic Encyclopedia (in Persian)
Urdu language and literature
Platts’ Dictionary of Urdu, Hindi, and English
‘A Desertful of Roses’: The Urdu ghazals of Mirza Asadullah Khan “GHALIB”(Prof. Frances Pritchett; see also her Useful Sources on Hindi/Urdu Language and Literature)
