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WikiIslam articles should be based on reliable, published sources. This page discusses the various types of sources available and their reliability. | WikiIslam articles should be based on reliable, published sources. This page discusses the various types of sources available and their reliability. | ||
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Tertiary sources are sources that rely upon primary and secondary sources. Unlike secondary sources, they attempt to provide a broad introductory overview of a topic. As tertiary sources, encyclopedias and textbooks attempt to summarize and consolidate the source materials, but may also present commentary and analysis. ''The New Encyclopedia of Islam'' would be an example of a tertiary source. There are a [http://www.ipl.org/div/subject/browse/ref32.00.00/ variety of encyclopedias] available. | Tertiary sources are sources that rely upon primary and secondary sources. Unlike secondary sources, they attempt to provide a broad introductory overview of a topic. As tertiary sources, encyclopedias and textbooks attempt to summarize and consolidate the source materials, but may also present commentary and analysis. ''The New Encyclopedia of Islam'' would be an example of a tertiary source. There are a [http://www.ipl.org/div/subject/browse/ref32.00.00/ variety of encyclopedias] available. | ||
==Identifying Reliable Sources== | ==Identifying and Using Reliable Sources== | ||
===Primary Sources=== | ===Primary Sources=== | ||
Primary sources would include the Qur'an and [[Hadith]] collections. At WikiIslam we use the University of Southern California Muslim Students Association's [[Compendium of Muslim Texts]]. This includes the respected and widely accepted Qur'an translations of Yusuf Ali, Marmaduke Pickthal and M. H. Shakir. Hadith translations available from the Compendium of Muslim Texts are the translation of Sahih Al-Bukhari by Muhsin Khan, the translation of Sahih Muslim by Abd-al-Hamid Siddiqui, the translation of Sunan Abu Dawud by Ahmad Hasan, and the translation of Malik's Muwatta by A'isha Abd-al-Rahman al-Tarjumana and Ya'qub Johnson. | |||
Other useful resources concerning primary sources are the [http://www.islamawakened.com/Quran/ Master Ayat (Verse) Index] from IslamAwakened.com which provides 34 compared English translations, and the [http://iknowledge.islamicnature.com/quran/surah/1/lang/englishliteral/ iKnowledge Qur'an] from IslamicNature.com which provides the English literal translation. The hadith collection at [http://www.searchtruth.com/hadith_books.php SearchTruth.com] is also useful due to including a few narrations that have oddly been misplaced/removed from the Compendium. Primary sources are not limited and may be freely used in articles. | |||
===Secondary Sources=== | |||
===Tertiary Sources=== | |||
==Sources to Avoid== | |||
===Primary Sources=== | |||
Generally any translation of the Qur'an not included in the Compendium of Muslim Texts (other than the literal translation) should be avoided. In particular, the translations by orientalists (e.g. Arthur John Arberry, Edward Henry Palmer, George Sale, John Medows Rodwell and N J Dawood) or obscure translations by "progressives" that are not accepted by mainstream Muslims (e.g. Rashad Khalifa, Maulana Muhammad Ali and Laleh Bakhtiar). | |||
===Secondary Sources=== | ===Secondary Sources=== | ||
Statements of fact concerning Islam from polemic sources such as books, articles or commentaries by individuals such as Robert Spencer, Pamela Gellar, Ayaan Hirsi Ali, Mark A. Gabriel, Wafa Sultan, Ali Sina, Walid Shoebat, Brigitte Gabriel etc. are not to be used under any circumstances on WikiIslam as a reference. | |||
Excluding the [[Islam in the News]] section, news sources that could be considered "right-wing" or "Jewish/Zionist" should also be avoided when possible (e.g. Fox News, WorldNetDaily, FrontPage Magazine, National Review, Daily Mail or Arutz Sheva). | |||
===Tertiary Sources=== | ===Tertiary Sources=== | ||