Oxford Islamic Studies Online
by Oxford University Press
This electronic resource features more than 3,000 reference articles and chapters by leading scholars and specialists in their fields are linked below. Qur'anic studies resources include two Oxford World's Classics translations of the Qur'an, linked to the first online version of A Concordance of the Qur'an by Hanna Kassis. Primary source documents have informative introductions and notes. Timelines cover major events in the Islamic world and corresponding events in world history for context. Images provide useful visual perspectives on Islam. Users can refine the rich array of content to search and browse by era, topic, and geographic region, filter to view a specific type of content, and make use of a variety of search forms to set criteria for locating biographical entries, bibliographic references, primary sources, terms in the Qur'an and Concordance. Materials related to the Bookshelf are linked below.
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