Islamic Heritage Project
Through the Islamic Heritage Project, the Harvard University Library will create digital images of selections of Islamic materials from Harvard's historical collections of published works and manuscript materials. These selections will be available on the Internet in the course of 2008. The Islamic Heritage Project is part of the University Library's Open Collections Program intended to support teaching and learning by providing online access to historical resources from Harvard's significant libraries, archives, and museums.
Other Research Projects
Other Islamic studies-related research projects around campus include:
Islamic Finance Project (HLS)
The Islamic Finance Project (IFP) is the continuation of the Harvard Islamic Finance Information Program (HIFIP), which was established by the Center for Middle Eastern Studies in 1995. IFP is now part of the Islamic Legal Studies Program (ILSP) at Harvard Law School. It aims to study the field of Islamic finance from the legal and shari’a points of view by analyzing contemporary scholarship, inducing collaboration among scholars within and outside the Muslim world, and increasing the interaction between theory and practice in Islamic finance.
The Pluralism Project (The Committee on the Study of Religion)
The Pluralism Project: World Religions in America is a decade-long research project, with current funding from the Ford and Rockefeller Foundations, to engage students in studying the new religious diversity in the United States. We will explore particularly the communities and religious traditions of Asia and the Middle East that have become woven into the religious fabric of the United States in the past twenty-five years.
Islam in the West
The Islam in the West program is an interfaculty collaboration program that has been funded by the Provost since 2003. The mission of the program is to enhance our knowledge on Muslim minorities in secular and democratic contexts in the West, assist students from different schools and disciplines engaged in the study of this subject in finding guidance and resources, develop a collaborative group of Harvard faculty members from different disciplines with an interest in the subject, and to advance knowledge in a relatively new and increasingly important area of research. The program is a collaboration between the Center for Middle Eastern Studies, Center for European Studies, Department of Anthropology, Department of Government, Divinity School, and Islamic Legal Studies Program.
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