IslamSelect (al-Mukhtar al-Islami)
LiveStatus: Permission grantedCurrent site status: Under-construction placeholder
islamselect.net
Visit the archive: islamselectarchive.comIndependent archive
This page documents the restoration project and does not host historical content. Materials appear in the site’s archive on its own domain.
Restored archive screenshots
These images show the archive interface after restoration.
Screenshot from the restored archive 
Screenshot from the restored archive 
Screenshot from the restored archive
Restoration statistics
Final restoration figures (13 October 2026).
The restoration is complete within its stated scope, and the archive is now live on its own domain, islamselectarchive.com.
- Items published in full text
- 37,039
- Items with saved text
- 39,560
- Items registered from the site
- 51,443
- Duplicate copies linked to their original
- 2,520
- Items that could not be recovered
- 11,883
- English articles published
- 622
Site record
- Verified historic domains
- islamselect.net · www.islamselect.net · islamselect.com · www.islamselect.com · islamselect.org · www.islamselect.org
- Years included in the survey
- 2001–2017
- Domains
- islamselect.net · islamselect.com · islamselect.org
- Documented periods
- September 30, 2003
- End date of original content
- August 12, 2017
- The latest article capture with HTTP 200 in the index is 4 July 2017; the previous one is 28 December 2016. Later captures are redirects or 404s. The current placeholder was last modified on 12 August 2017, so later captures are treated as non-original.
- Current site status
- GET https://islamselect.net returned HTTP 200 with an under-construction page titled ‘al-Mukhtar al-Islami’; Last-Modified: 12 August 2017. GET /mat/98680 returned 404. robots.txt refers to Cloudflare and contains no Disallow rule.
- Scope limits
- Reader comments are excluded from extraction because they are user-generated content.
Rights status
- Status
- Permission granted
- Access scope
- Full text
- Original publishers’ rights
- The site republished selected material and credited other publishers, including Al-Bayan magazine. Their rights also apply.
- Basis
- Project owner's attestation of 12 October 2026 that publication permission was obtained for every site listed in Wasl al-Athar, including IslamSelect.
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Restoration timeline
Documented work milestones for this site.
- 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
IslamSelect archive launched
The first archive published on its own domain, after restoring 40,173 pages from the Internet Archive.
Known gaps
- Pages generally do not state the original publication date; capture dates are not presented as publication dates.
- Images and attachments have not been restored; their original links remain in the text with a notice.
- The 2008 design loaded article text in a separate frame (/article/<id>); only 34 such links are indexed, so most pages from that era are not preserved.
- The 2008 and 2010 designs use different layouts. The extractor passed a sample on the 2010 design; the 2008 design currently yields metadata only.
- Reader comments are intentionally excluded because they are user-generated content.
- The CDX interface returned 503 ‘Temporarily Offline’ responses again; incomplete queries are listed in the audit report.