HIST 313/513 History of Islam (Francis): History of Islam Resources

What is UW Resource Sharing?

• UW Resource Sharing enables UWSP users to borrow materials from other UW System campus libraries and receive them in 2-3 working days.
• Pointers may use their UWSP identification cards to check out materials from other UW System libraries.

• Access to Mideast and Islamic Resources (AMIR) - Open access material relating to the Middle East.
• Accessing Muslim Lives - Autobiographical writings. Browse by category, region, time or name.
• Al-Mostafa - Database of downloadable PDFs of Arabic texts, modern and classical.
• Arabic Manuscripts Online
• Digital Islam - Research on Middle East, Islam and digital media.
• Digital Persian Archive - Database of Persian historical documents from Iran and Central Asia up to the 20th century.
• Islamic Heritage Project - Digital collection of Islamic manuscripts, maps, and published texts from Harvard’s renowned library and museum collections. 
• Islamic Manuscripts - Cambridge Digital Library
• Islamic Manuscripts Collection - Princeton University
• Middle East Studies Association
• Middle East Virtual Library -- Menalib - Information portal for Middle East, North African, and Islamic Studies. Provides access to electronic fulltext materials or electronic bibliographical records of printed materials and manuscripts.
• Muslim Women's League (U.S. Organization)
• Pars Times ME resource Guide - Meta site of links about the Middle East.
• OACIS - Database of Middle East Serials - Catalog for searching various Arabic language serials and holdings at US libraries.
• Women Living under Muslim Law - The resources and publications tab provides links to scholarship and policy briefs.

Call Number Ranges (Library of Congress Subject Classification):

• Reference Room (1st flr)
• BP160 - (Islam, general works) 4th flr
• BP1784 – 1785 (Religion – Islam) 4th flr
• DS35.2 – 39.2 (History – Arab Countries) 4th flr
• HQ1784 – 1785 (Family, Marriage, Women – people in other countries) – 4^th 
• JQ1758 – 1852 (Political Institutions – Islamic World) – 4^th flr

Reviews of books are available in many scholarly journals through subject specific database. Most of the database allow you to limit to just book reviews.

Find these print indexes in the Reference Room on the library’s first floor. Use the volume for the year in which the book was first published or the years immediately after the initial publication date.

Book Review Digest Reference Room Z1035.A1 B6

1905-present. Lists and provides excerpts of book reviews in the humanities, social sciences, and general periodicals from the U.S., Canada, and Great Britain. Entries are under author's last name. A short description of the book, a full citation to locate the full text, and excerpts from 3-4 book reviews appear under each entry.

Book Review Index Reference Room Z1035.A1 B5

1965-present. Provides citations to reviews of books, periodicals, and books-on-tape from over 600 general interest and scholarly publications. Arranged alphabetically by author’s last name; there is no subject approach. No summaries or excerpts of the reviews are included.

The New York Times Index Reference Room AI21 .N44

1851-2001. Includes citations to all reviews in The New York Times Book Review section; listed in the index alphabetically by title under the Book Reviews subject heading.