Accessing Muslim Lives: Translating and Digitising Autobiographical Writing for Teaching and Learning: Final Report

This is the final report for a project that aims to improve the accessibility of autobiographical writings from Muslim contexts through translation and digitisation so that they may be better used for teaching and learning in Islamic Studies in UK higher education.

Through an internet-based collection of primary source extracts students practitioners and the general public alike will be given access to the wide array of Muslim lives both male and female represented in these autobiographies – from scholars saints and socio-religious reformers to princes bureaucrats nationalists educators writers and actors. The project will thus complicate stereotypical depictions of Muslims and Islam so widespread in the current political climate.