Studies in World Literature Links

The Ottomans (Richard Hooker, WSU)
http://www.wsu.edu:8080/~dee/OTTOMAN/ORIGIN.HTM

Suleyman
Selim II

Islam and the Koran

"Internet Islamic History Sourcebook" (A great link-list of Islamic history sites on the net from Fordham University)

"Islamic Studies, Islam, Arabic, and Religion" (Prof. Alan Godlas, University of Georgia)

• features introductory essays on aspects of Islam, including
• Women in Islam

"Islam, Empire of Faith" (Web companion to PBS series)

• features a section on Art
• and one on Muhammad

An introduction to Islam (from submission.org)

"What is the Koran?"  Article by Toby Lester, Atlantic Monthly, January 1999.
Lester's article was somewhat controversial. Here are some letters The Atlantic received about the article.

Here is an authoritative Introduction to the Koran
http://www.quran.org.uk/ieb_quran_chittick.htm

Translations of the Qur'an is just that--the whole book on-line in three different translations. http://www.usc.edu/dept/MSA/quran/

The Muslim Women's League (A "nonprofit American Muslim organization")
"The Status of Women in Islam" (Jamal A. Badawi)
Women in Islam (at submission.org)

A study guide to Things Fall Apart:
http://www.wsu.edu:8080/~brians/anglophone/achebe.html

Achebe interview (Paris Review 133 Winter, 1994-1995)

Postcolonial Literature: Problems with the Term (Paul Brians)

African Exploration and The Roots of Colonialism (WSU)
The Scramble for Africa (WSU)

Kipling, "The White Man's Burden" and British (and U. S.) Imperialism:
http://www.boondocksnet.com/kipling/index.html

from Chinua Achebe's "An Image of Africa" [on Conrad's Heart of Darkness]
http://www.wwnorton.com/nael/nto/20thC/postcolonial/chachebefrm.htm

The Nobel Prize Naguib Mahfouz Page
http://nobelprizes.com/nobel/literature/1988a.html

The Official Nobel Prize Mahfouz Page
http://nobel.sdsc.edu/laureates/literature-1988.html

A Mahfouz Bibliography:
http://nweb.pct.edu/homepage/staff/evavra/SDM/W12/Mahfouz_Bib.htm

A Newsweek story on Mohammed Atta's Cairo neighborhood (loads slowly):
http://www.msnbc.com/news/844344.asp?cp1=1#BODY

Background to Egyptian History since 1952
http://www.umass.edu/complit/aclanet/EGYPT.html

Egypt, a Short History, chapter 8
http://www.oneworld-publications.com/books/texts/egypt-a-short-history-ch8.htm

Home Page of The Muslim Brotherhood
http://www.ummah.org.uk/ikhwan/The Misery of the Brotherhood, The Misery of Egypt, the Misery of Us All (World Press Review)
http://www.worldpress.org/Mideast/828.cfm

Alifa Rifaat: working within tradition (planetarabia)
http://english.planetarabia.com/content/article.cfm/103008/109891/

Alifa Rifaat, a short profile (Arab Women's Solidarity Association)
http://www.awsa.net/arabwomen.htm#Alifa%20Rifaat:
A short bibliography of writings by Alifa Rifaat
http://www.endicott.edu/iwli/egypt.html

Judaism 101
http://www.jewfaq.org/

Shakespeare in the Bush (Laura Bohannon)
http://www.cc.gatech.edu/people/home/idris/Essays/Shakes_in_Bush.htm

Another, shorter version of Bohanon's article:
http://www.csubak.edu/~bhemphill/Classes/hamlet.html

Another version:
http://www.fieldworking.com/library/bohannan.html

The definitive version (Ameican Natural History)
http://www.amnh.org/naturalhistory/editors_pick/1200_read2.html