Alukah Network (alukah.net)

The Alukah Network is an Islamic network for da'wa, media, culture, scholarship and letters, made of thirteen sites to which writers and thinkers contribute, founded in 1427 AH / 2006, working in Arabic and English. ¹ "Alukah" is Arabic for a message, as in al-Mu'jam al-Wasit and al-'Ukbari's al-Mashuf al-Mu'lam. ¹

The earliest capture of alukah.net in the Internet Archive is dated 7 February 2006, titled "Alukah site", with a page for a competition, its branches, rules and prizes, and a guest book. ²

Among the network's stated aims are publishing scholarly material that serves Islamic culture, through e-books, articles, studies and Friday sermons; offering advice in da'wa, psychology, education and family matters; introducing thinkers, reformers and writers; caring for young writers; making the Islamic and Arab heritage known to the digital public; and opening windows for scholarly dialogue. ¹

Its sites include Afaq al-Shari'a for religious research and articles; Culture and Knowledge for political, intellectual and historical material; Society and Reform for family and upbringing; Consultations; the Civilisation of the Word for literature and language; Muslims in the World for news of Muslim minorities; the Alukah Library; Translations, rendering into Arabic what Western media write about the Muslim world; the Talking Library, which turns books recorded by the Central Talking Library of Saudi Arabia's Ministry of Education into digital audio; the al-Majlis al-Ilmi forum for discussion on the method of Ahl al-Sunna wa-l-Jama'a; and personal sites of scholars and preachers. ¹ The museum holds the network's sermons section in the Khutab and Durus explorer. ³ The article names Sa'd ibn Abd Allah al-Humayyid and Khalid ibn Abd al-Rahman al-Juraysi as the network's two supervisors. ¹

The network is active at alukah.net and has an article in the Arabic Wikipedia. ⁴

• Arabic Wikipedia, «شبكة الألوكة», revision 73239964. ¹
• Internet Archive capture of alukah.net, 7 February 2006. ²
• Alukah Network. ³
• Wikidata Q25452545. ⁴