Catholic University 

• Institute for Christian Oriental Research (ICOR Library)

Georgetown University

• Center for Christian-Muslim Understanding
• Center for Contemporary Arab Studies

George Washington University

• Sigur Center for Asian Studies
• Institute for Middle East Studies

American University

• Chair of Islamic Peace, School of International Service
• Ibn Khaldun Chair in Islamic Studies

Howard University

• Center for African Studies

University of Maryland

• Roshan Institute for Persian Studies
• Anwar Sadat Chair for Peace and Development

School of Advanced International Studies, The Johns Hopkins University

• Middle East Studies
• Asia Studies

George Mason University

• Ali Vural Ak Center for Global Islamic Studies
• Center for World Religions, Diplomacy and Conflict Resolution

Independent Research Institutes (Think Tanks)

• Middle East Institute
• Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, Middle East Program
• Center for Strategic and International Studies, Middle East Program
• Brookings Institution, Middle East and North Africa
• United States Institute of Peace

Museums

• Arts of the Islamic World at the Smithsonian's Freer and Sackler Galleries
• Islamic art at The Walters Art Museum, Baltimore

Islamic Studies Online

• Islam and Islamic Studies Resources, compiled by Prof. Alan J. Godlas
• Online Qur'an Resources, from the Social Science Research Council
• Oxford Islamic Studies Online
• Virtually Islamic, research and news about Islam in the digital age compiled by Gary Bunt
• Middle East Studies Association
• Study of Islam, listserv for Islamic studies of the American Academy of Religion)
• Tabsir, insight on contemporary Islam and the Middle East, by Daniel M. Varisco
• Cyberorient, Online Journal of the Virtual Middle East, by the Middle East Section of the American Anthropological Association