Reference
This page is meant to be a very basic reference site for those interested accessing recent surveys and studies, and exploring online resources from universities. It is by no means comprehensive. If you have a suggestion for something to be added to this list, please contact us here.
Recent Polls & Surveys
The World’s Muslims: Religion, Politics and Society (The Pew Forum on Religion & Public Life, April 30, 2013)
100 Most Powerful Arab Women (Arabian Business, March 2013)
Children Do Matter (Bradford Council for Mosques, UK, about the city’s Madrassas, 2013)
Looking at Iran: How 20 Arab and Muslim Nations View Iran and its Policies (Arab American Institute and Zogby Research Services, March 2013)
Survey | Citizenship, Values, and Cultural Concerns: What Americans Want from Immigration Reform, Additional Findings From the 2013 Religion, Values, and Immigration Reform Survey (including on American attitudes toward Islam) (Public Religion Research Institute, March 21, 2013)
Mapping Muslims: NYPD Spying and Its Impact on American Muslims (MUSLIM AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES COALITION, CLEAR/CUNY SCHOOL OF LAW, AALDEF, March 11, 2013)
NASA Satellites Find Freshwater Losses in Middle East (NASA, Feb. 12, 2013)
Continued Support for U.S. Drone Strikes (Pew Research Center for People & The Press, Feb. 11, 2013)
Opening doors: Gender Equality and Development in the Middle East and North Africa (World Bank, Feb., 2013)
Muslim-American Terrorism: Declining Further (Triangle Center on Terrorism and Homeland Security (Kurzman), Feb. 2013)
Government Defence Anti-Corruption Index (Transparency International, Feb. 2013)
What the Public Knows – In Pictures, Maps, Graphs and Symbols (Pew Research Center for the People & the Press, Feb. 5, 2013)
Global Employment Trends 2013: Recovering from a second jobs dip (International Labour Organization, January 22, 2013)
Women and the Web: Intel sponsored study on bridging the Internet gender gap in middle and low income countries (January, 2013)
Domestic Workers Across the World: Global and Regional Statistics and the Extent of Legal Protection (International Labour Organization, 2013)
Women and the Web (Intel Foundation, 2012)
Arab Media Outlook 2011–2015 (Dubai Press Club and Deloitte & Touche, 2012)
PEW FORUM Global Religious Landscape Report on Size and Distribution of World’s Major Religious Groups as of 2010 (December 18, 2012)
World Leaders on Twitter (Digital Daya, December 2012)
Hate Crime Statistics, 2011 (FBI, December 2012)
The Muslim 500: The World’s 500 Most Influential Muslims (The Royal Islamic Strategic Studies Centre, November 2012)
Afghanistan in 2012: A Survey of the Afghan People (Asia Foundation, November 2012)
Faith on the Hill: The Religious Composition of the 113th Congress (Pew Forum on Religion & Public Life, Nov. 16, 2012)
How the Faithful Voted: 2012 Preliminary Analysis (Pew Forum on Religion & Public Life, Religion & Politics 2012, November 7, 2012)
American Muslim Voter Survey 2012 (Council on American Islamic Relations (CAIR)/American Muslim Task Force on Civil Rights and Elections, October 24, 2012)
On Eve of Foreign Debate, Growing Pessimism about Arab Spring Aftermath: Public Favors Tough U.S. Stance on Iran, China (Pew Research Center Publications, October 18, 2012)
Americans on the Middle East: A Study of American Public Opinion (University of Maryland Program on International Policy Attitudes, October 8, 2012)
Is Peace Possible: A report on a comprehensive survey of attitudes among Israeli Jews, Israeli Arabs, Palestinians in the Occupied Lands, Refugees in Lebanon, Refugees in Jordan, and Jewish Americans (for Sir Bani Yas Forum by Dr. James Zogby, Arab American Institute, October 2012)
Syria Regional Response Information Sharing Portal (on refugees) (UNHCR and partners, 2012)
Controversies Over Mosques and Islamic Centres Across the U.S. (Map graphic: Pew Forum on Religion & Public Life, September 27, 2012)
Rising Tide of Restrictions on Religion (The Pew Forum on Religion & Public Life, September 20, 2012)
Opinion Briefing: Arab Nations Differ on ‘Uprisings’ Upside (Dalia Mogahed for Gallup World, September 12, 2012)
America’s Role in the World Post-9/11: A New Survey of Public Opinion (Chicago Council on Global Affairs, September 10, 2012)
MENA Health, Employment and Corruption surveys (World Bank, data presented Summer 2012)
The American Divide: How We View Arabs and Muslims (Arab American Institute/Zogby, August 22, 2012)
Afghans’ Outlook on Lives Remains Bleak: Unease grows in Afghanistan as NATO troops continue drawdown (Gallup, August 6, 2012)
Survey: After the Arab Uprisings: Women on Rights, Religion and Rebuilding (Gallup Center for Muslim Studies, Summer 2012)
Twitter in the Arab Region (Arab Social Media Report, June 2012)
Pakistani Public Opinion Ever More Critical of U.S.: 74% Call America an Enemy (Pew Global Attitudes Project, June 27, 2012)
Many Americans Can’t Name Obama’s Religion/Majority Guess he is Christian/11 % say Muslim (Gallup, June 22, 2012)
Drone Strikes Widely Opposed: Global Opinion of Obama Slips, International Policies Faulted (Pew Global Attitudes Project, June 13, 2012)
Middle East Leads World in Negative Emotions (Gallup, June 6, 2012)
Snapshot: Nato Intervention in Libya Unpopular in Arab World (Gallup, May 31, 2012)
Fact Sheet (and link to report): 2011 Country Reports on Human Rights Practices/ Key Trends: Human Rights Around the World (US State Department, May 24, 2012)
Mormon Presidents and Mosques Next Door: An Examination of American Attitudes Toward Religious Minorities (Public Religion Research Institute, May 23, 2012)
2010 US Religion Census: Religious Congregations & Membership Study (May 1, 2012) Overview here.
On Anniversary of bin Laden’s Death, Little Backing of al Qaeda (Pew Global Attitudes Project, April 30, 2012)
Engaging American Muslims: Political Trends and Attitudes (Institute for Social Policy and Understanding, April 3, 2012)
Religion in Prisons: A Fifty State Survey of Prison Chaplains (Pew Forum on Religion & Public Life, March 22, 2012)
Report of the Special Rapporteur on the Situation of Human Rights in the Islamic Republic of Iran (United Nations, March 6, 2012)
The American Mosque (CAIR, January, 2012)
Background Report: 9/11, Ten Years Later (START, the National Consortium for the Study of Terrorism and Responses to Terrorism, 2011)
Controversies over Mosques and Islamic Centers Across the U.S. and Map (Pew Research Center, September 29, 2011)
Muslim- Western Tensions Persist (Pew Global Attitudes Project, July 21, 2011)
U.S. Seen as Among the Greatest Nations, But Not Superior to All Others: America’s Global Standing(Pew Research Center Publications, June 30, 2011)
Academic Reference Web Sites
Abbasi Program in Islamic Studies at Stanford University
Aga Khan Museum (Toronto, Canada) Manuscripts
Access to Mideast and Islamic Resources (AMIR)
Brigham Young University Neal A. Maxwell Institute for Religious Scholarship Middle Eastern Texts Initiative
Carolina Center for the Study of the Middle East and Muslim Civilizations
Comparative Oriental Manuscript Studies(COMSt)
Department of Arabic and Islamic Studies at Georgetown University
Duke Islamic Studies Center
Duke University 2011 Arab Revolutions Reference Guide
Islamic Canonical Texts at Columbia University Libraries
Islamic Manuscripts at University of Michigan
The Jews in the Medieval Muslim World: An Introduction to the Study of Judaeo-Arabic Language, Literature, History, Thought, and Culture (University of Chicago)
Languages of the Middle East (via Columbia University)
Literatures of the Middle East (via Columbia University)
The Middle East North Africa Internet Resource Guide (University of Utah)
Oxford Center for Islamic Studies
Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies Library
Prince Alwaleed bin Talal Islamic Studies Program at Harvard University
Sources on Islam (Internet Medieval Sourcebook)
University of Cambridge Centre for Islamic Studies
University of Texas at Austin Center for Middle Eastern Studies/University of Texas Press Scholarly and Literary works on the Middle East
University of Chicago Divinity School Islamic Studies Program
University of London, School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS) Centre for Islamic Studies
University of Michigan Islamic Studies Program
Yale University Arabic and Islamic Studies Program (Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations)
Yale University Islamic Studies Program (Religious Studies)
Yale University Library Near Eastern Connection
