Encyclopedia of Islam and the Muslim World

Ref Room BP40 .E525 2004
Composed of over 500 essay entries, this two volume work is well illustrated and contains bibliographies at the end of each entry. It includes a genealogy and index detailing the contents.

Historical Dictionary of Islam

Ref Room BP50 .A33 2001
Provides a chronology of significant events from Muhammad's birth to the close of the 20th century. Concise alphabetically arranged entries have cross references. Includes an extensive bibliography.

Oxford History of Islam

Ref Room BP50 .O95 1999
This work is comprised of brief essays on religion, law, art, architecture, and science and technology written for the general reader. Includes illustrations. Contains a bibliography and detailed subject index.

Encyclopaedia of the Qur'an

Ref Room BP133 .E53 2001
The central English-language reference work for Qur'anic studies. The focus rests on the Qur'an itself rather than the history of interpretation, though references to interpretation occur throughout the text. Entry words are in English rather than transliterated Arabic.

Concordance of the Qur'an

Ref Room BP133 .K37 1983
A convenient resource for the non-Arabic student of the Qur'an. Each division first has vocabulary pertaining to Allah, and then remaining words. Besides the concordance proper entries in transliterated Arabic, there is an index in English.

Qur'an: an Encyclopedia

Ref Room BP133 .Q87 2006
This single-volume encyclopedia of the Qur'an is designed to fill the gap between more general introductions and more technical, substantive works. Entries are of a serious, substantive, and academic nature and contain useful bibliographies for those interested in probing a particular subject in greater depth. The work includes an index of Qur'anic passages, along with a subject index and an index of proper names.

Oxford Encyclopedia of the Modern Islamic World

Ref Room DS35.53 .095 1995
This four volume encyclopedia contains over 750 articles dealing with all aspects of the Islamic world. There are bibliographies at each chapter's end, some of which are annotated. Articles are cross referenced, if appropriate, to other articles of related interest. Contains a detailed index.

Encyclopedia of Islam

Ref Room DS37 .E523
The most academically prestigious, scholarly and comprehensive single reference source on Islam published in the English language, this prodigious work's main corpus was finally completed in the year 2000 after forty years of production in small fascicles (parts) that the Library later bound together into twelve volumes. It covers biography, history, geography, religion, and social institutions and customs. Entry words are in transliterated Arabic so this resource is somewhat awkward to use. Contains bibliographies. An index of subjects is in a separate volume.

Oxford Dictionary of Islam

An online resource, this dictionary focuses on 19th and 20th century topics, including many social, religious, and political aspects of modern Islam.

How to find books

• Select "Library Catalog" from the Library home page. To find books for this class use broad keyword terms such as "Qur'an", Muslim ---- ", "Islam?", or "Islam$."
• Look at the subject headings for a book that meets your needs. Select those subject headings to find other books that are described the same way and might also be useful.
• Go to the call number locations of those books both in the stacks and the reference room. Similar books will be nearby. Use indices to further mine their contents

How to find and locate journal articles

JSTOR

A collection of full text articles in .pdf format from the back files of over 200 scholarly journals, many dating from the nineteenth-century to within the last 4 or 5 years.

Historical Abstracts

The most comprehensive indexing service in the field of non-U.S. and Canadian history from 1450 to the present. Covers materials published from 1955 to the present.

Sociological Abstracts

Full version comprehensive database of over 1500 journals covering sociology, social work, and other social sciences. Covers 1963 to the present.

ATLA Religion Index

Comprehensive database in religious and theological scholarship. Covers materials published from 1949 to the present.

Once you have a specific journal title, go to "Journals at F&M" from the library homepage and type in the title of a journal you hope to find.

How to find information on the World Wide Web

Islam and Islamic Studies Resources

A gateway to links for Islamic study resources on the Web, including Qur'an, hadith, the Sunnah, Shi'ism, Sufism, Islam in the modern world, militant Islam, jihad, Islamist or extremist Muslims, terrorism, Islam in Iraq, Muslim women, Islamic art, architecture, music, Islamic history, theology, philosophy, and Arabic and other Islamic languages such as Persian.

Islamic Studies Pathways

This web site has been online since 1996, and contains over one hundred links to resources useful for Islamic Studies (academic and general.)

Islam in Comparative Context

Hosted by the International and Area Studies Program of the University of California, Berkeley, this site is a gateway to reliable information sources on the web.

How to...

• Evaluate web pages and books & articles
• Cite web pages and books & articles.
• Avoid plagiarism.