Theology & Religious Studies: Islam

An international bibliography of publications on all aspects of Islam, the Middle East, and the Muslim world--including accounting, archaeology, architecture, arts, bibliography and scholarship, economics, education, geography and travel, history, law, libraries, natural and applied sciences, philosophy, politics and current affairs, religion, social sciences, theology, and zoology. Search criteria include: subject, author, title, keyword in title, keyword, year, place of publication, type of literature, and publisher. 1906 to present.

Electronic version of the original nine volume set plus two updates. Represents over 10 million words and thousands of articles dealing with the ancient, medieval, and modern periods of Islamic studies. Searches are possible in both Arabic transcription and English. The search engine allows for wildcard, Boolean, and proximity searches. Includes many hyperlinks for easy cross-referencing.

Focuses primarily on the 19th and 20th centuries, stressing topics of most interest to Westerners. Looks at the religious, political, and social spheres of the modern Islamic world. There are biographical profiles, ranging from Naguib Mahfouz (the Nobel Prize winner from Egypt) to Malcolm X, including political leaders, influential thinkers, poets, scientists, and writers. Other entries cover major political movements, militant groups, and religious sects as well as terms from Islamic law, culture, and religion, key historical events, and important landmarks (such as Mecca and Medina). A series of entries looks at Islam in individual nations, such as Afghanistan, the West Bank and Gaza, Bosnia-Herzegovina, and the United States, and there are discussions of Islamic views on such issues as abortion, birth control, the Rushdie Affair, and the theory of evolution.

Over 3,000 references, chapters from scholarly and introductory works, Qur'anic materials, primary sources, images, and timelines. Includes material from several reference works including: Oxford Encyclopedia of the Islamic World, The Oxford Encyclopedia of the Modern Islamic World, The Islamic World: Past and Present, The Oxford Dictionary of Islam, The Oxford History of Islam, and What Everyone Needs to Know About Islam.

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