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TO SURPASS HARVARD! (1999)
By Oct. 1999—a year after the Sammania started to ‘sponsor’ the site—the material
offered by the IIC began to be upgraded. This was made possible “thanks to
Linuxvision of the Cayman Islands,” who by April 1999 had started to be featured
on the site—Ahmad Darwish’s company that produced the Sheba Arabization
package for Linux based servers. Substantial numbers of Arabic texts were
made available—and most of these were taken from Al Muhaddith, one of the
earliest examples of online Islamic libraries that began in 1988 and opened its
website (muhaddith.org) on November 30, 1998, offering “Search software, Islamic
books and prayer times program for free download by all Muslims with
online search. 119+ classic Islamic books, 300 MB+: Holy Quran, Hadith, Fiqh,
Dictionary and other Islam books.” A few months later, texts from Al Muhaddith
started to appear on mosque.com, and subsequently, Ahmad Darwish’s
eulogy of his own site reached new heights:
Starting 1/1/2000 the Mosque.com [the first Islamic site on the web ever]
has surpassed Harvard and Oxford in the Islamic Scholarly Leadership. We register 10
Islamic Studies Students a day added to our daily over 1500 visitors actively in study,
soon we will challenge the students of both Harvard and Oxford on-line. Stay Tuned.
Mosque’s World Largest & Free Islamic and Arabic Collection: 85 References (some
By Oct. 1999—a year after the Sammania started to ‘sponsor’ the site—the material
offered by the IIC began to be upgraded. This was made possible “thanks to
Linuxvision of the Cayman Islands,” who by April 1999 had started to be featured
on the site—Ahmad Darwish’s company that produced the Sheba Arabization
package for Linux based servers. Substantial numbers of Arabic texts were
made available—and most of these were taken from Al Muhaddith, one of the
earliest examples of online Islamic libraries that began in 1988 and opened its
website (muhaddith.org) on November 30, 1998, offering “Search software, Islamic
books and prayer times program for free download by all Muslims with
online search. 119+ classic Islamic books, 300 MB+: Holy Quran, Hadith, Fiqh,
Dictionary and other Islam books.” A few months later, texts from Al Muhaddith
started to appear on mosque.com, and subsequently, Ahmad Darwish’s
eulogy of his own site reached new heights:
Starting 1/1/2000 the Mosque.com [the first Islamic site on the web ever]
has surpassed Harvard and Oxford in the Islamic Scholarly Leadership. We register 10
Islamic Studies Students a day added to our daily over 1500 visitors actively in study,
soon we will challenge the students of both Harvard and Oxford on-line. Stay Tuned.
Mosque’s World Largest & Free Islamic and Arabic Collection: 85 References (some