Department of Arabic

The Qatar Digital Library (QDL) is a major bilingual online archive launched in 2014 as a partnership between the Qatar National Library, the Qatar Foundation, and the British Library, with the primary mission of documenting and preserving the history and culture of the Gulf and the wider Arab-Islamic world. Featuring a collection of over two million freely accessible digitized pages, the QDL offers researchers and the public access to a vast array of historical materials, including official archival records (largely from the British Library's India Office Records), medieval Arabic scientific manuscripts, maps, photographs, and sound recordings, thereby serving as an indispensable resource for enhancing global understanding of the region’s heritage. 

Al-Maktaba Al-Waqfeya (The Waqfeya Library) is an extensive, non-profit digital library dedicated to providing free access to a massive collection of scanned books, primarily focused on Islamic sciences and Arabic heritage. The library’s vast repository includes classical and modern works across numerous disciplines, such as tafsir (Quranic exegesis), hadith (Prophetic traditions), fiqh (Islamic jurisprudence), aqidah (creed), Arabic grammar and rhetoric, Islamic history, and philosophy, featuring many texts by renowned scholars. Essentially, it functions as a critical online resource for students, researchers, and the general public seeking to access and preserve a rich body of Islamic and Arabic scholarly literature. 

Al-Maktabah al-Shamilah (The Comprehensive Library) is a massive, free digital project and platform dedicated to collecting and organizing thousands of books and academic research in the Islamic and related auxiliary sciences, all in a fully searchable text format. Boasting approximately 8,000 books, 3,000 authors, and nearly 7 million pages, the website and its dedicated desktop/mobile application provide an invaluable resource for students and scholars across 40 major categories, including Tafsir, Hadith, Fiqh (Islamic jurisprudence for various schools of thought), and Arabic language studies. The project's goal is to make essential scholarly literature readily available for research, searching, and copying, making it one of the most widely used Islamic digital libraries.