The Ahlul Bayt Digital Library Project (Ahlul Bayt DILP), established in 1996, is a non-Profit Islamic organization; working as group of volunteers operating throughout the world. Their primary project Al-Islam.org intends to digitize and present quality resources related to history, law, and society of the Islamic religion and its personalities with particular emphasis on the Twelver Shi'ah Islamic school of thought. Al-Islam.org is a site which also serves non-Muslims a means of introducing Islam.[1]
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Their goal is to encourage research of Islam and to facilitate propagation of knowledge to locations where such resources are not commonly or easily accessible. To cater to this objective Ahlul Bayt DILP is always expanding its Digital library which consist of 4000+ resources accessible for Free.[2]
Since the launch of Al-islam.org, it has proved to be one of the most authentic source of Islamic information, and is notable for being the top site in Yahoo!'s list of Shia sites by popularity.[3]
The organization is a 501(c)(3) public charity [2]
On-route to achieve a vast library with the best resource of Islamic knowledge, the Ahlul Bayt DILP team is currently working on various important projects.
The Free digital library consists of more than 800 Textual resources in different languages. To further facilitate its users, the Ahlul Bayt DILP team has been working on various projects which give detailed information on a specific topic. Such projects include The Shiite Encyclopedia, The Event of Gadeer Khum project and Tahrif (distortion) of Islamic Texts.
While Majority of the texts currently available in the library are English translations, the volunteers of DILP have taken up the task of providing texts in other languages like Spanish, Italian, Swahili, Arabic, Urdu and Gujarati. [4]
The Multimedia section of Al-islam.org has a large collection of audio/video resources. These are mainly Quran recitations, lectures, elegies, and supplications. It also has a picture gallery consisting of Islamic Calligraphy and images of many important Islamic sites.
A searchable Quran with English translation as well as commentary from Agha Puya/S.V. Mir Ahmed Ali. Work is now being done to include multiple commentaries, browsing by Root-word and topics. [5]
Archiving articles from scholarly Journals such as Al-Seerat, Al-Tawheed, and Al-Thaqalayn.
A scholarly examination of the event where the Prophet Muhammad appointed Imam Ali as his successor. The study focuses on examining the chain of narrators and the tradition of Al-Ghadir. [6]
A set of fact sheet, ready for distributions which are available in numerous languages including Albanian, Bosnian, German, Swedish, and Thai. [7]
An informative Islamic Robot which can give you basic information about Islam. [8]
Multilingual collection of Ad’iya and Ziaraat, categorized by source and date. [9]
The site has been cited by the Columbia University here (as a main reference on Islam), the British Academy here, the Canadian Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade here, the George Mason University here, Intute here, and is archived by the Library of Congress.