"This interdisciplinary field ... includes history, religion, philosophy, anthropology, Arabic language and literature, as well as literatures in other languages including Persian, Turkish, and Urdu, and remains responsive to new discoveries, interpretations, ideologies and theories...The articles present a guided tour through the key literature on each topic, providing context for its development, and a balanced overview of the major issues within a given topic (Oxford University Press)."
Searchable reference text with information on the Islamic World and its religion, history, politics, and culture.
Fondren has access to the following sections:
1) Encyclopaedia of Islam, First Edition (1913-1936)
2) Encyclopaedia of Islam, Second Edition, plus Glossary and Index of Terms
3) Encyclopaedia of Islam, Three
4) Historical Atlas of Islam
Islam in the Modern World, 1804-1913 contains 150 titles, 172 volumes and more than 52,000 pages. The content includes biographies of the prophet Muhammad; works comparing Christianity and Islam’s key theological and philosophical texts, including the Quran; relevant mystical and spiritual works; and texts surveying the history of Islam.
Image database of Islamic art and cultural artifacts, by country, period/dynasty, etc., with a description, select bibliography, and provenance for each object.