Treasure Trove: AMIR

I've encountered this extremely useful website before and if you haven't you need to. Access to Middle East and Islamic Resources (AMIR) is just what it says: a site containing links to useful online resources dealing with the Mideast and Islamic world. their postings for June 27 ALONE include these links:

•  Open Access Travel Literature. Several online sites with access to travel narratives, guides, photos etc.
• Open Access Digital Archive: TIMEA. "The Travelers in the Middle East Archive." More of the same sort of stuff.
• Open Access Compendium: Sunnah and Hadith. Sahih Bukhari, Sahih Muslim, and other hadith collections.
• Princeton Online Arabic Poetry Project.

And that was for yesterday.

I also discovered a wonderful link: the Claremont Graduate University is posting the Claremont Coptic Encyclopedia, edited by the late, great Aziz Suryal Atiya. (He guided a bunch of us ARCE [American Research Center in Egypt] fellows to the Wadi Natrun monasteries back in the late 70s.) An invaluable resource. AMIR is now in my blogroll.