LibGuides: Religious Studies: Islam

Call Numbers & Subject Headings

LC Call Number Ranges for Islamic studies (3rd floor Mezzanine)

BP1-BP610 Islam

Arabic Manuscripts collection
Call Number: Special Collection SC119
Maghribi Qur'an (Koran) Bifolium. Late 10th or 11th century. Kufic script.

Classical Arabic Books
Extensive list of early Buddhist works digitized for the Internet Sacred Text Archive.
Internet Archive - sacret texts
New Cambridge history of Islam

To find more dictionaries and encyclopedias, search the online catalogue using the keyword Buddhism and limit to location Reference.

Encyclopaedia of Islam (Brill)
Encyclopaedia of the Qurʾān (Brill)
It is an encyclopaedic dictionary of qurʾānic terms, concepts, personalities, place names, cultural history and exegesis extended with essays on the most important themes and subjects within qurʾānic studies.
Encyclopedia of Islam and the Muslim world / editor in chief, Richard C. Martin
Encyclopedia of Islamic civilisation and religion / edited by Ian Richard Netton.
Encyclopedia of women & Islamic cultures
v. 1. Methodologies, paradigms and sources -- v. 2 Family, law and politics -- v. 3. Family, body, sexuality and health -- v. 4. Economics, education, mobility and space -- v. 5. Practices, interpretations and representations
Oxford encyclopedia of the Islamic world / John L. Esposito, editor in chief.
v. 1. Aa Gym-Cosmology -- v. 2. Creeds-Intercession -- v. 3. Interest-Metalwork -- v. 4. Mevlevî-Russia -- v. 5. Sacrifice-Women's Action Forum -- v. 6. Women's movements-Ẓūrkhānah; index.
Oxford Reference Online - Religion & Philosophy
Includes full-text access to A Dictionary of Buddhism
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Includes:

* Oxford Companion to Philosophy
* Oxford Dictionary of Philosophy
* Concise Oxford Dictionary of World Religions
* and many more...

Try the following databases to find journal articles for Buddhist studies.

Academic Search Complete
Multidisciplinary resource with articles on a range of subjects including current events, health, humanities, sciences, and technology.
Anthropology Plus Anthropology Plus is the world's most comprehensive, focused index of bibliographic materials from the late 1800s to today in the fields of social, cultural, physical, biological, and linguistic anthropology; ethnology, archaeology, folklore, and material culture; and interdisciplinary studies. It is also useful to researchers and scholars in art history, demography, economics, genetics, geography, geology, history, psychology, religion, and sociology.

ATLA Religion Database with ATLASerials
American Theological Library Association database that is the major index to journal articles, collections of essays and book reviews in the field of religion. Coverage spans more than 50 years and covers materials in over 34 languages and is updated twice yearly.
Index Islamicus
This database is a comprehensive index to publications on Islamic subjects throughout the world. Records cover almost 100 years, from 1906 to the present. The scope includes the Middle East, the Muslim areas of Asia and Africa, plus Muslim minorities elsewhere in the world. Over 3,000 journals are monitored for inclusion, together with conference proceedings, monographs, multi-authored works and book reviews. Journals and books are indexed down to the article and chapter level.

Humanities Abstracts
Cites articles for more than 700 periodicals, including some of the best-known scholarly journals and numerous specialized magazines covering archaeology, classical studies, dance, journalism, linguistics, philosophy, theology and much more. Indexing goes back to 1984, and abstracts back to 1994.
JSTOR
JSTOR preserves and archives the complete back runs of important scholarly journals. 1124 online academic journals. Date coverage varies from the 1890s to 2-5 years ago.

Here are a few useful sites to get you started.