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Religion and Philosophy: United Arab Emirates

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Library of Congress Country Study (http://lcweb2.loc.gov/frd/cs/aetoc.html)
One in a continuous series of volumes published by the Federal Research Division of the Library of Congress under the Country Studies/Area Studies Handbook Program sponsored by the Department of the Army. Covers religion and religious practices in the UAE.

Open Directory Portal Page on Islam (http://dmoz.org/Society/Religion%5Fand%5FSpirituality/Islam/Quran/)
The Open Directory Projects portal page on Islam offers hundreds of citations on various aspects of Islam as practiced around te globe, as well as sites which contain the complete Arabic and English texts of the Koran.

Princeton University Library's Digital Islamic Manuscript Collection (http://diglib.princeton.edu/xquery?_xq=getCollection&_xsl=collection&_pid=islamic)
Princeton University Library holds approximately 9,500 Islamic manuscripts in Arabic, Persian, Ottoman Turkish and other languages of the Muslim world written in Arabic script. The manuscripts date from the 9th to the 19th centuries. 200 of these manuscripts are being digitized for their digital library.

University of Texas Middle East Website (http://menic.utexas.edu/menic/Countries%5Fand%5FRegions/United%5FArab%5FEmirates/Education/)
Excellent website on the government, politics, news and media, education and the social sciences in the Middle East and the UAE. Has links to other websites on the UAE. Search under Islam.

Yahoo! Directory UAE>Religion and Spirituality (http://d3.dir.dcx.yahoo.com/regional/countries/united%5Farab%5Femirates/society%5Fand%5Fculture/religion%5Fand%5Fspirituality/)
This site includes information on Islamic teachings and Islamic banking in the UAE.

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