About the initiative
Why preserve websites?
When websites go offline, useful records and links disappear with them. We document the surviving digital traces, explain what was restored and what could not be reached, and link to each site’s archive.
How we work
- Catalogue available websites and captures, and record coverage and its limits.
- Verify each site’s identity and periods, and check restored material for integrity.
- Review rights before making full text available in a site archive.
- Document results and distinguish restored material from what remains unavailable.
What we do not do
- We do not claim an archive is complete or publish figures without a source.
- We do not change historical text or bypass access and rights restrictions.
- We do not claim to represent original websites or their rights holders.
Documented milestones
We record progress and setbacks as they happened and link each milestone to published evidence.
- Completed
Major update to the IslamSelect archive
31,532 articles, sermons and studies after a full editorial review, with author and section pages and speed and security improvements.
- Completed
OnIslam restoration completed
40,697 pages, 13,424 in Arabic and 27,273 in English, and 19,865 images.
- Completed
Prophet of Mercy restoration completed
8,071 pages and 1,321 images.
- Completed
Altareekh restoration completed
12,335 pages and 376 images.
- Completed
SunniPath and Qibla restoration completed
6,599 pages in English.
- Completed
Awda wa Dawa restoration completed
27,292 pages and 11,335 images.
- Completed
IslamSelect archive launched
The first archive published on its own domain, after restoring 40,173 pages from the Internet Archive.
- Completed
Wasl al-Athar launched
The initiative’s main site: the directory of preserved websites, and the rights, support and participation pages.