Scope

Our twin mission is as follows:

to create an on-line archive of standards-based Classical Islmaic texts and images in the Islamic Studies in Arabic and English.

to build and support a loyal user community of eLibrary adept at the creation and use of online resources

Form

HTML, the de facto Internet standard allows us to create data in universally usable manner. Some, like SGML, are de jure standards; others like tiff, gif, jpeg are ubiquitous de facto ones.

Data that owns its own structures - tagged data that needs only ASCII to survive is central to our digital library production; it networks well, is not beholden to any piece of software for its existence, and it allows products from multiple sources to be accessed together through a common web-based interface.

Medium

Online delivery is the dominant delivery

More and more users expect the digital library to come to them, wherever they happen to be. This should be a fundamental aspect of our service.

Data that is delivered to only on CD-ROM in proprietary formats is too often orphaned in today's Internet enabled world..

Audience

Muslims living and working in the Western world, students, researchers, scholars and Middle East departments. Moreover, Islamic schools in the west and Muslim world at large. The user base is estimated to grow to tens of thousands per day, inShaAllah.