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NEW! Unrivalled online access to the history and culture of Islam...
Oxford Islamic Studies Online features essential articles written, selected, and interpreted by renowned scholars:
"Content: 10. Design: 10. Navigability: 10. Usability: 10...a tour de force of a system, with all the additional scholarship...An essential purchase for academic and public libraries." LIBRARY JOURNAL
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Editor-in-Chief: John L. Esposito, Prince Alwaleed bin Talal Center for Muslim-Christian Understanding, Georgetown University
Editorial Board: Natana DeLong-Bas, Department of Theology, Boston College; Shahrough Akhavi, Department of Political Science, University of South Carolina;
James Piscatori, Centre for Arab and Islamic Studies, Australian National University;
Tamara Sonn, Department of Religious Studies, College of William and Mary;
John O. Voll, Prince Alwaleed bin Talal Center for Muslim-Christian Understanding, Georgetown University;
Hakan Yavuz, Department of Political Science, University of Utah
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A vast and authoritative online resource...
- Content includes the forthcoming Oxford Encyclopedia of the Islamic World (6 volumes, 2009), The Oxford Encyclopedia of the Modern Islamic World, The Islamic World: Past and Present, The Oxford History of Islam, The Oxford Dictionary of Islam, Hanna Kassis's A Concordance of the Qur'an, two translations of the Qur'an published in the Oxford World's Classics series, and What Everyone Needs to Know about Islam
- Over 4,500 A-Z articles, from Abd al-Qadir to Zaynab, integrated with chapter-based scholarly works
- 300 maps and illustrations offer visual, geographic, and social perspectives on global Islam
- More than 150 primary source documents with editorial commentary
- Timelines documenting major events in Islamic
history and general world history in context
- Glossary of Islamic terms and concepts to aid research
- Editorially-selected links to authoritative web sites
- Learning resources are available to aid research at any level, and to help educational professionals incorporate Oxford Islamic Studies Online into teaching
- Regular updates include new content and functionality
Excellent functionality and extensive links...
- Over 2,500 entries from The Oxford Dictionary of Islam are available free on the world wide web to increase discoverability in your favourite search engines
- Search and browse options allow users to quick search all content simultaneously or to focus on a single type of content such as subject articles; chapters; biographies; primary sources; images; maps; charts; or Qur'an study
- Refine search options include topic, era, and region
- Extensive cross-searching and cross-referencing provide users with access to related content in chapters, primary sources, A-Z articles, and the Qur'an
- Direct links from Concordance of the Qur'an verse citations to two alternate interpretations of the Qur'an, which can be viewed side-by-side for study and comparison
- An expanding range of carefully-selected links to external websites facilitate further research
- Date converter will allow users to convert Islamic dates to Western dates, and vice versa
- User-friendly print formats
Subscriber services include...
- Extensive online help and excellent customer and technical support
- Detailed usage statistics allow you to track how often your users are accessing Oxford Islamic Studies Online
- OpenURL compliance allows users to query their library catalogue with bibliographic information
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