RELIGIOUS STUDIES - Islam

     Beyazit Il Mosque - Turkey

Websites

• BBC Religion and Ethics--Islam
  http://www.bbc.co.uk/religion/religions/islam/
  An excellent introduction to the history, customs, beliefs, worship and ethics of Islam. Explains major subdivisions of Islamic faith.

• Islam and Islamic Study Resources
  http://www.uga.edu/islam/
  Web site of University of Georgia’s Virtual Center for Interdisciplinary Studies of the Islamic World.   Includes a large selection of articles and opinion pieces about Islam. 

• Islam: Empire of Faith
  http://www.pbs.org/empires/islam/
  Online companion to the PBS film about the faith, politics, culture and innovations of the Islamic empire over a thousand year history.  Includes lesson plans and other resources for teachers. 

• USC-MSA Compendium of Muslim Texts - Index to the Qur'an

  http://www.usc.edu/dept/MSA/quran/quranindex.html

  Index to an English translation of the Qur'an.

Databases and Online Reference Books

• The Oxford Dictionary of Islam
• The Concise Oxford Dictionary of World Religions
   

Reference Materials in Print

• The Muslim almanac : a reference work on the history, faith, culture, and peoples of Islam  REF 297 N155m
• The concise encyclopedia of Islam  REF 297.03 G464c 
• The Oxford history of Islam  REF 297.09 Ox2e 
• The crusades : Islamic perspectives  REF 909.07 H557c 
• Historical dictionary of Arab and Islamic organizations  REF 909.0974927 C591h
• The Islamic world : past and present   REF 909.097671 Is4e 
• The Oxford encyclopedia of the modern Islamic world  REF 909.097671 Ox2e
• Atlas of the Islamic World since 1500   REF 911.17671 R562

Library Catalog Search Terms

• Islam [time period]  (Example: Islam 20^th century)
• Islam [geographic location]  (Example: Islam Africa)
• Islam [type of book]  (Example : Islam biography, encyclopedia, pictorial work)
• Islam customs and practices
• Islam and _______(Example: politics, science, art)
• Islamic fundamentalism
• Islamic music
• Islamic sects

Browse the stacks

• 297 Islam
• 320 Islam and politics, Islamic fundamentalism
• 509 Islam and science
• 709.17 Islam and art
• 909 Islamic history

Periodicals

• The Muslim World - A journal dedicated to the study of Islam and Christian-Muslim relations.