Research Guides: Arab Studies: Getting Started

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Gale eBooks Reference Library
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Welcome to the Arab Studies research guide! Use this guide as a starting point for your research in this subject area.

Oxford Islamic Studies Online
Full-text reference materials on Islam and Islamic concepts, history, politics, and more. Contains The Oxford History of the Islamic World, Oxford Dictionary of Islam, Oxford History of Islam, The Grove Encyclopedia of Islamic Art & Architecture, two Oxford World's Classics versions of the Qur'an, Hanna Kassis' Concordance of the Qur'an, maps, primary source documents, and more.
Index Islamicus
(1906 to present) Citations to articles from over 3,000 journals as well as books, conference proceedings, and book reviews. Covers a wide variety of subjects and topics related to Islam, the Middle East, and the Muslim world including art, economics, history, law, literature, philosophy, political science, and religion.

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