Maktabah Mujaddidiyah has a goal to collect and present free Islamic books in every language of the world. We are continously trying to acquire Islamic literature in many languages, to enable the native speakers learn about Islam in their own mother tongue.

Available Languages

Currently we have Islamic books available in 82 languages of the world. Some of them have very few books, whereas others have hundreds of them.

Most of the languages have very few books, and we are always looking for new and better Islamic literature in such languages.

Arabic has such a large collection of Islamic literature (being the native tongue of Islam), that we have decided to present only important works in it. Other websites provide thousands of historical and contemporary Islamic books in Arabic.

Maktabah Mujaddidiyah is based in Pakistan, so naturally we have access to Islamic books in local languages such as Urdu, Sindhi, and others. That is one reason why we have more books in these languages. It is our aim to acquire working partners from other countries to enrich the contents of other languages.

Recently added

1. Saraiki, a language (or dialect) spoken in Pakistan by about 13 million people. Books of Sufi poetry in Saraiki included.
2. Avar, books written by a famous Islamic scholar of Dagestan, Russia
3. Dhivehi, translation of the Holy Quran and Riyadh-us-Saliheen in the national language of Maldives

Missing Languages

We are actively searching for Islamic books, specially in languages other than those listed here. We will be grateful if you any one sends us an Islamic book in any of the missing languages, some of whom are listed below.

1. Javanese, spoken in Indonesia by 85 million native speakers
2. Cantonese (Yue), a dialect of Chinese, spoken by 60 million native speakers
3. Bhojpuri, spoken in India by 40 million native speakers
4. Sundanese, Indonesia, 34 million native speakers
5. Maithili, India and Nepal, 46 million speakers. ISO code: mai
6. Oriya, India, 33 million native speakers
7. Marwari or Rajasthani, India, 50 million speakers. ISO code: mwr, raj
8. Lao, Laos, 20 million speakers. ISO code: lo
9. Igbo, Nigeria, 25 million speakers
10. Oromo, Ethiopia, 30 million native speakers.
11. Cebuano, Philiphines, 21 million speakers.
12. Malagasy, national language of Madagascar, 22 million speakers
13. Nepali or Nepalese, official language of Nepal, 17 million speakers
14. Shona, Zimbabwe and Africa, 13 million speakers
15. Xhosa, South Africa
16. Haitian Creole, official language of Haiti, 10 million speakers
17. Konkani, India. Official language of the Indian state of Goa
18. Afrikaans, an important official language of South Africa, 7 million native speakers
19. Balochi, one of the four provincial languages of Pakistan
20. Quechua, South America (Peru and Bolivia), 9 million native speakers
21. Batak, Indonesia
22. Turkmen, Turkmenistan, 7 million speakers
23. Armenian, Armenia
24. Bodo, India
25. Dogri, Kashmir
26. Manipuri, India
27. Sanskrit, India
28. Santhali or Santali, India
29. Slovak, Slovakia, 5 million native speakers
30. Slovene, Slovenia, 2.5 million native speakers
31. Guarani
32. Catalan, Spain, 7 million native speakers
33. Wolof, spoken by 4.2 million native speakers in African countries
34. Frisian, Netherlands
35. Venda, one of the official languages of South Africa, 1.1 million native speakers
36. Akan or Twi, Ghana, 11 million native speakers
37. Tsonga, one of the official languages of South Africa, about 4 million native speakers
38. Tswana, South Africa and Botswana, 5.4 million native speakers
39. Swazi, South Africa, 2 million native speakers
40. Sotho, South Africa and Lesotho, 6 million native speakers
41. Sardinian, Italy, 1 million native speakers
42. Rundi or Kirundi, official language of Burundi, 9 million native speakers
43. Yi or Nuosu, China, 2 million native speakers
44. Lingala, DR Congo, 5.5 million native speakers
45. Kongo, DR Congo, about 6 million native speakers
46. Kyrgyz, Kyrgyzistan, 3 million native speakers
47. Rwandan, Rwanda and Uganda, 10 million native speakers
48. Gikuyu or Kikuyu, Kenya, 6.6 million native speakers
49. Irish, official language of Ireland, about 1.5 million speakers
50. Goergian, Goergia, 4.2 million native speakers
51. Galician, Spain, 3 million speakers
52. Ewe, Ghana, 3.6 million speakers
53. Dzongkha, national language of Bhutan, 170 thousand native speakers
54. Chuvash, Russia, 1 million native speakers
55. Chechen, Russia, 1.4 million native speakers
56. Belarussian, Belarus, 7 million native speakers
57. Bashkir, Russia, 1.2 million native speakers
58. Bambara, Mali and Senegal, 4 million native speakers
59. Aymara, an official language of Bolivia, 3 million native speakers
60. Afar, Eritrea and Ethiopia, 1.4 million native speakers

Islamic Date Module v1.0 for Joomla 1.5

Islamic Date is a highly customizable and fully localizable module for Joomla 1.5.x that displays Islamic (Hijri or Hijrah) date on your homepage (or anywhere else). It can also display Gregorian date. Features iclude:

• Fully localizable: so all month names and day names can be manually configured to match any language (plus dir attribute can be set to Right-to-left or Left-to-right)

• Fully customizable: with options for showing weekday, order of dates, calendar symbols, Hijri date adjustment for moonsighting, and custom formatting of the dates.

Future plans for this module include the following:

• Including timezone for change of date (calculating midnight). Current timezone in use is UTC.

• Including option for changing Hijri date at Sunset (corresponding to a particular location, given in Longitude, Latitude)

• Inclusion of multiple algorithms for Hijri date calculation (e.g. Kuwaiti algorithm, Umm al-Qura of Saudi Arabia, and few others)

• Option for displaying digits in localized formats (English, Indic, Indic-Arabic, and others)
• Option for displaying date as Text or Picture

Help Us by donating a small amount, if you like this extension:

Version History

Version 1.0.0: First version released on 30 July 2009, with features stated above.

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