A digital museum · open to everyone
A museum for the whole story of Islam.
From the world it was born into, through fourteen centuries of faith, scholarship, art, cities, journeys and peoples, to today. Every person, place, event, idea, object and practice connected to everything around it, in time and space, for the curious of every background.
We are building the galleries. Opening soon.
Eight wings
- TimeEras, timelines, this day in history, any year in the Islamic world.
- PlaceCities, sites and routes on a map that moves through time.
- PeopleProphets, companions, scholars, rulers, scientists, poets, travelers, women and men who shaped the story.
- IdeasBeliefs, concepts, sciences and schools, explained in plain words.
- ObjectsManuscripts, art, architecture and relics from collections worldwide.
- WordsQur'an, hadith, poetry and the languages and scripts of Muslim peoples.
- LivingPractices, the Islamic year, festivals, food, dress and music by region.
- TodayNations, institutions, data and the people of the present.
How we build it
- Free, with no ads, forever
- Open data and open text
- Every claim sourced
- All traditions, fairly
- Arabic and English first, more languages to come
- Written for the curious stranger