F&M Library: ANT 110A

ANT 110A: Social Anthropology: Islam

How to find background information

Use reference sources to get ideas for topics, to get background information, and to guide you to additional information.

The encyclopedia of politics and religion. Washington, D.C.: Congressional Quarterly, c1998. 2 volumes.: Reference Room BL65.P7 E53 1998
The concise encyclopedia of Islam. San Francisco : Harper & Row, 1989.: Reference Room BP40 .G42 1989
A dictionary of Islam : being a cyclopaedia of the doctrines, rites, ceremonies, customs, with the technical and theological terms, of the Muhammadan religion. New Delhi : Asian Educational Services; Ottawa Laurier Publications, 1996.: Reference Room BP40 .H8 1996
The Muslim almanac : a reference work on the history, faith, culture, and peoples of Islam. Detroit, MI: Gale Research, c1996: Reference Room BP40 .M83 1996
The Oxford history of Islam. New York: Oxford University Press, 1999.: Reference Room BP50 .O95 1999
The Oxford encyclopedia of the modern Islamic world. New York: Oxford University Press, 1995.: Reference Room DS35.53 .O95 1995 4 volumes
The Encyclopaedia of Islam. Leiden: Brill, 1960-: Reference Room DS37 .E523 11 volumes
Encyclopedia of the modern Middle East. New York: Macmillan Reference USA, 1996.: Reference Room DS43 .E53 1996 4 volumes
The Cambridge encyclopedia of the Middle East and North Africa. New York : Cambridge University Press, 1988.: Reference Room DS44 .C37 1988
The Middle East. Washington, D.C.: CQ Press, c2000.: Reference Room DS63.1 .M484 2000
Encyclopedia Iranica . London; Boston: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1982-: Reference Room DS253 .E52
Historical atlas of the Middle East. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1993.: Reference Room Atlas Area G2206.S1 F7 1993
Atlas of the Middle East. New York: Macmillan Publishing Co., c1988.: Reference Room Atlas Area G2205 .K33 1988
The Cambridge atlas of the Middle East and North Africa . Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1987.: Reference Room Atlas Area G2205 .C3 1987
The Arab-Israeli conflict: its history in maps. London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1976.: Reference Room Atlas Area G2206.S1 G5 1976

How to find books

Select Library Catalog from the Library web page

How To Find Journal and Newspaper Articles

Available from the Library web page under Indexes and Article Collections. Browse the entire list to find databases relevant to your particular topic. The databases listed below are most likely to be useful:

ATLA Religion Index: Comprehensive database in religious and theological scholarship. Covers from 1949 to the present.
Anthropology Plus: Provides extensive worldwide indexing of journal articles, reports, commentaries, edited works, and obituaries in the fields of social, cultural, physical, biological, and linguistic anthropology, ethnology, archaeology, folklore, material culture, and interdisciplinary studies. Covers over 2500 journals, 19th century to the present. Updated quarterly.
Historical Abstracts: Comprehensive international historical coverage (excluding the U.S. and Canada) from 1450 to the present. Covers abstracts from 1954 to the present.
Lexis-Nexis: Connections to newspaper articles, business information, and legal resources.
PAIS International: Index to policy-oriented literature (books, journal articles and U.S. and foreign government documents). International coverage of information about political, economic and social issues and events in specific countries. Covers 1972 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.
Wilson Select Plus: Contains full-text articles from 800 periodicals. Covers 1994 to the present.

How to get articles and books

Search for journals owned by F&M:

Click on the Journals at F&M box on the Library web page, and then enter the name of the journal.

Full text online:

Interlibrary Loan for books and articles:

Form available from Library web page. You will need the barcode number from your ID card. Be THOROUGH in the information you provide. If you are unsure of any citation information, please indicate in "Comments" field. Also, please include source of the citation whenever possible. Allow two weeks for delivery, some items may arrive sooner.

Citation Guides

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If you have any questions about choosing a topic, or using the above resources, you may stop at the Reference Desk, or contact the librarian below:

Last updated: 12/20/03 ag, contact Pam Snelson for assistance, 291-3896