Islamic Studies Resources
- Index Islamicus This link opens in a new window'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.' (from database homepage) Learn more about this database
- Oxford Bibliographies Online: Islamic Studies This link opens in a new windowExamines the range of lived experiences and textual traditions of Muslims as they are articulated in various countries and regions throughout the world. This interdisciplinary field combines history, religion, philosophy, anthropology, Arabic language and literature, as well as literatures in other languages including Persian, Turkish, and Urdu. e.
- American Theological Library Association (ATLA) Religion This link opens in a new windowJournal, essay, and book review index. Contains thousands of citations from international titles and multi-author works in the field of religion.
- Historical Abstracts (1955-) This link opens in a new windowHistorical coverage of the world from 1450 to the present (excluding the United States and Canada), from over 2,000 journals published worldwide.
A selected list of online peer-reviewed journals on Islamic Studies. Check the library catalog for print versions of these titles.
For a comprehensive list of electronic journals available, go to the Full Text Electronic Journals Holdings page and search by title, ISSN, or general subject discipline.
- Academic Search Complete (1975-present) This link opens in a new window
Covers topics in most areas of academic study. Full-text provided for over 10,000 publications, with over 7,850 peer-reviewed. Abstracts and indexing available for over 13,780 journals in the collection.
- Ethnic Newswatch This link opens in a new windowIncludes current full-text newspapers, magazines, and journals of the ethnic and minority press, providing researchers access to essential, often overlooked perspectives. The database now also contains Ethnic NewsWatch: A History, which provides historical coverage of Native American, African American, and Hispanic American periodicals from 1959-1989.
- Gender Studies Database (1972- ) This link opens in a new windowCombines Women’s Studies International and Men’s Studies databases with the coverage of sexual diversity issues. Covers the full spectrum of gender-engaged scholarship inside and outside academia. Includes more than 921,000 records.
- GenderWatch This link opens in a new windowA full-text collection of international journals, magazines, newsletters, regional publications, special reports, and conference proceedings devoted to women's and gender issues. Over 31,000 full text articles from 115 publications and archival material. Updated quarterly. Learn more about this database
- Historical Abstracts (1955-) This link opens in a new windowHistorical coverage of the world from 1450 to the present (excluding the United States and Canada), from over 2,000 journals published worldwide.
- Art and Humanities Citation Index, via Web of Science (1988- ) This link opens in a new windowIf you receive an error message and cannot access the database, try clearing your browser cache and cookies. Indexes 1,100 of the world's leading arts and humanities journals, as well as covering individually selected, relevant items from over 6,800 major science and social science journals. Print version for 1976-1985 in Olin Level 1 Reference: AI3 A63
- United Nations, Official Documents (1993 - ) This link opens in a new windowOfficial United Nations documentation originating from duty stations worldwide, including selective documents of the regional commissions: Economic and Social Commission for Western Asia (ESCWA), Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (ESCAP), Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) and Economic Commission for Europe (ECE). Older documents are being added on a daily basis.
- Biography and Genealogy Master Index (1975 - ) This link opens in a new windowIndexes any print product that includes biographical information on individuals, both living and deceased, from every field of activity and from all areas of the world. The total number of biographical sketches indexed by BGMI is now more than 16.9 million.
- Early Arabic Printed Books from the British Library This link opens in a new windowEarly Arabic Printed Books from the British Library is the first full-text searchable digital library of early printed books in Arabic script. Covering religious literature, law, science, mathematics, astrology, alchemy, medicine, geography, travel, history, chronicles, and literature, and including European translations of Arabic works and Arabic translations of European books, it exemplifies the long exchange of ideas and learning between Europe and the Arabic-speaking world.
- Confidential Print: Middle East, 1839-1969 This link opens in a new windowHistorical documents covering such important events as the Egyptian reforms of Muhammad Ali Pasha in the nineteenth century, the Middle East Conference of 1921, the Mandates for Palestine and Mesopotamia and the Suez Crisis in 1956, to the partition of Palestine, post-Suez Western foreign policy and the Arab-Israeli conflict.
- Early Western Korans (on BRC) This link opens in a new windowThis remarkable collection demonstrates the impact of the holy book of Islam in Europe. Long before printing with movable type became common practice in the Islamic world, Korans had been printed in Arabic type in several European cities. The collection includes Korans and Koran translations, printed between 1537 and 1857, and is of interest to book historians, theologians, philologists, and scholars of Islamic Studies alike.
- Empire Online This link opens in a new windowOver 70,000 images of original documents relating to Empire Studies. The images are sourced from libraries and archives around the world, including a strong core of document images from the British Library.
- Foreign Office Files for India, Pakistan and Afghanistan, 1947-1980 (Parts I, II and III) This link opens in a new windowSourced from the British Foreign Office files at The National Archives, the UK government's official archive. Focuses on the political and social history of India, Pakistan and Afghanistan.
- Arab Israeli relations, 1917-1970 (Archives Unbound) This link opens in a new windowSource material from the British Foreign Office, Colonial Office, War Office and Cabinet Papers from the 1917 Balfour Declaration through to the Black September war of 1970-1.
- Afghanistan and the US, 1945-1963 (Archives Unbound) This link opens in a new windowThe collection contains 9,674 images from the U.S. National Archives covering military, legal, political, socioeconomic, cultural, industrial, and environmental information about Afghanistan from 1945-1963. Records of the U.S. State Department Central Classified Files.
- U. S. and Iraqi Relations: U. S. Technical Aid, 1950-1958 (Archives Unbound) This link opens in a new windowDocuments spanning 1950-1958 that follow the efforts of the U.S. Operations Mission (USOM) in Iraq.