Tuesday, 10 February 2015

Oxford Islamic Studies Online offers regularly-updated teaching and research resource

Source: Oxford Islamic Studies Online website.

Oxford Islamic Studies Online has been updated with over 300 new and revised articles from The Oxford Encyclopedia of Islam and Politics, edited by Emed El-Din Shahim, in its Fall 2014 update. New entries include the Arab Spring, sovereignty, rebellion, as well as overviews of Central Asia, South Asia, Southeast Asia, and the Middle East.

The subscription-based service features articles written, selected, and interpreted by renowned scholars to aid research and teaching at any level. The site hosts over 3,000 articles integrated with chapter-based scholarly works, visual, geographic, and social perspectives on global Islam, including maps, illustrations, dynastic tables, and demographic charts, as well as timelines, glossaries, and other learning resources.

Available content includes the Oxford Encyclopedia of the Islamic World (six volumes, 2009), The Oxford Encyclopedia of the Modern Islamic World (four volumes), The Islamic World: Past and Present, The Oxford History of Islam, The Oxford Dictionary of Islam, Hanna Kassis' A Concordance of the Qur'an, two translations of the Quran published in the Oxford World's Classics series, and What Everyone Needs to Know About Islam


Monthly or yearly personal subscriptions are granted under the terms of a single-user, non-transferable license. Corporate subscriptions are available on an annual basis. Subscribers may access the site from any location. 

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