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

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Highlighted Reference Works

An Historical Atlas of Islam
Call Number: REF G1786.S1 H6 2002
ISBN: 9004122354
Overview of Islamic history from its inception up to the beginning of the twentieth century.
Encyclopaedia of Islam
Call Number: REF DS37 .E523
ISBN: 9789004161214
Also search Google Books for the first edition of the Encyclopaedia of Islam. Some volumes are available full text and are searchable. Some entries are different from the new edition.
Encyclopaedia of the Qur'an
Call Number: BP133 .E53 2001
ISBN: 9004114653
Guide to Islamist Movements
Call Number: Online source (Gale Virtual Reference)
ISBN: 9780765623997
The Oxford Encyclopedia of the Islamic World
Call Number: REF DS35.53 .O96
ISBN: 9780195305135
Encyclopedia Iranica Online

Subject Specific Article & Reference Databases (UWSP licensed resources)

Academic Search Ultimate (full text) This link opens in a new window
Multi-disciplinary article database providing information across all areas of academic study.
Arts & Humanities Citation Index This link opens in a new window
A multidisciplinary index to scholarly articles in the arts and humanities, including times cited information

A subset of Web of Knowledge
Book Review Digest Retrospective (1905-1982) This link opens in a new window
An index to book reviews with excerpts, and abstracts of reviews from popular magazines, newspapers, and academic journals as well as library review sources.
Credo Reference (Full Text) This link opens in a new window
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Reference e-books including encyclopedias, dictionaries, atlases, statistical sources, biographical tools, thesauri, books of quotations, image collections, and subject-specific titles across a wide range of disciplines.
Gale Virtual Reference Library (GVRL - Full Text) This link opens in a new window
Gale Virtual Reference Library is a collection of specialized reference sources in a variety of academic areas including Asian studies, Religion, History, Food & Nutrition, and Biology.
GenderWatch (Full Text) This link opens in a new window
A full text database of publications that focus on the impact of gender across a broad spectrum of subject areas including business, education, culture, health, history, political science, and gender and women's studies and more. Publications include academic journals, magazines, newspapers, and other reports and proceedings.
History Reference Center (Full Text) This link opens in a new window
A full text history reference database designed for schools and public libraries. Provided by Badgerlink

Badgerlink
Humanities International Complete (Full Text) This link opens in a new window
Provides full text of hundreds of journals, books in the humanities, including all data from Humanities International Index. Provided by Badgerlink
JSTOR (Full Text) This link opens in a new window
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An archival full-text journal database which includes coverage in the arts, humanities, social sciences, life sciences, ethnic studies. Coverage begins with volume one of each title and continues to within 3 to 5 years of the most current issue.
Project Muse (Full Text) This link opens in a new window
Provides full-text access to scholarly arts, humanities, social sciences, and mathematics journals. Topics covered: literature and criticism, history, the visual and performing arts, cultural studies, education, political science, and gender studies.

Web Resources

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.

Core Journal Titles (Access depends on licensing. For UWSP users)



Annales islamologiques
Full text available via Free E- Journals

Available from 1954 volume: 1 until 1996 volume: 30



Arabica
Full text available via EBSCOhost Academic Search Complete

Available from 1999

Arts & the Islamic world

Full text available via EBSCOhost Art Full Text

Available from 1997 until 2001


British Journal of Middle Eastern Studies
Full text available via JSTOR Arts and Sciences II
Available from 1991 volume: 18 issue: 1 until 2007 volume: 34 issue: 3

Comparative Islamic studies

Full text available via EBSCOhost Academic Search Complete

Available from 2005

Most recent 3 month(s) not available

Contemporary Islamic Studies

Full text available via Free E- Journals

Available from 2010

Harvard Middle Eastern and Islamic review

Full text available via Free E- Journals

Available from 2009 volume: 8

International Journal of Islamic Thought

Full text available via DOAJ Directory of Open Access Journals

Available from 2012

International journal of Middle East studies

Full text available via JSTOR Arts and Sciences II

Available from 1970 volume: 1 issue: 1 until 2008 volume: 40 issue: 4

Islamic Connections: Muslim Societies in South & Southeast Asia

Full text available via EBSCOhost Academic Search Complete

Available in 2009

Journal of Arabic and Islamic studies

Full text available via DOAJ Directory of Open Access Journals

Available from 1996



Journal of Middle East women's studies
Full text available via EBSCOhost Humanities International Complete

Available from 2005

Middle East Studies

Full text available via DOAJ Directory of Open Access Journals

Available from 2009

Where to look in the Library

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

Book Reviews in Databases

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.

Highlighted Books

A History of Iran
Call Number: DS272 .A94 2008 (3rd flr)
ISBN: 9780465008889
Arabic Thought in the Liberal Age
Call Number: JA84.E3 H6
Early Islamic Mysticism
Call Number: BP188.9 .E2 1996
ISBN: 0809136198
Islam in Transition
Call Number: BP163 .I674 2007
ISBN: 9780195174311
Letters of a Sufi Scholar by Akkach
Call Number: BP80.N23 A643 2010 (ebook)
ISBN: 9789047424338
Liberal Islam
Call Number: RESERVE BP60 .L53 1998
ISBN: 0195116216
Wahhabism: A Critical Essay
Call Number: BP195.W2 A426 2002
ISBN: 9781889999319
Women and Gender in Islam
Call Number: HQ1784 .A67 1992
ISBN: 0300049420