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Islam

Library Instruction - Religious Studies 417
Recent Religious Thought

**The works listed below, unless otherwise noted, are all housed in the
MacKimmie Reference collection on 2LB**

DICTIONARIES and ENCYCLOPEDIAS which contain information on Islam include:


B 51 R68 1998
  Routledge Encyclopedia of Philosophy
   10 vols.
   Also available electronically to University of Calgary students
   faculty and staff via the Web.

BL 31 D52 1970
  Dictionary of Comparative Religion

BL 31 E43 
  Encyclopaedia of Religion and Ethics
   12 vols.

BL 31 E56 1987
  The Encyclopedia of Religion
   16 vols.
    Also available electronically on standalone workstation 219

BP 40 G53 2001
  The New Encyclopedia of Islam

BP 40 H83 1885
  Dictionary of Islam

BP 133 M57 1987
  Dictionary of Qur'anic Terms and Concepts

DS 37 E53 1999
  Encyclopedia of Islam
   Available electronically on standalone workstation 219

DS 37 E5 1987
  E. J. Brill's First Encyclopaedia of Islam, 1913-1936
   9 vols.

DS 37 E52 1974
  Shorter Encyclopedia of Islam
   Located on 5LT

DS 215 R63 1960
  Concise Encyclopedia of Arabic Civilization: the Arab East


PERIODICAL ARTICLES on Islamic Religion can be found by using
BIBLIOGRAPHIES and INDEXES located on 2LB.

INDEXES include:
 
Arts and Humanities Search, 1980- (Arts and Humanities Citation Index)  
    Available electronically to University of Calgary students, faculty
     and staff via the web. 
    Also available as Web of Science from 1990 to the present.
    

Philosopher's Index, 1940-
    Available electronically to University of Calgary students, faculty
     and staff via the web.  Book reviews are only available in the print
     version, B1 P49 (2LB-REF) 

ATLAS Full text Plus
     This major index to Religious studies articles published from 1949
      to the present is available electronically to University of Calgary
      students, faculty and staff via the web.  Full text is available
      for a number of the journals. 

DS 35.3 I52
  Index Islamicus, 1655-1955; and supplements 1956-
    Also available electronically on standalone workstation 219.

BIBLIOGRAPHIES include:

B 741 D35 1999
  Bibliography of Islamic Philosophy  (2 volumes)

BP 63 C5 I87 1994
  Islam in China: a critical bibliography

BP 64 A1 Z63 1978
  Islam in Sub-Saharan Africa

BP 135.2 A54 1980
  Hadith and Sira Literature in Western Languages

BP 161.2 G84 1983
  Guide to Islam

BP 161.2 G43 1985
  Guide to reference books for Islamic Studies

DS 44 M43 1979
  Middle East and Islam: a bibliographical introduction

HQ 1742 Y68 1974
  Images of the Feminine: mythic, philosophic and human-- in the Buddhist,
   Hindu and Islamic traditions
    Located on 3LT-TEMP

PJ 7521 S49 1967
  Geschichte des Arabischen Schrifttums
    V. 1,2,4,8,9, index

PJ 7692 E1 A52 1980
   Arabic Materials in English Translation

Q 125 A1 I64
   ISIS Cumulative Bibliography, 1913-1985.
    Updated by the annual bibliographies in the journal ISIS.
    Valuable for studies on medieval Islamic philosophers.
    Also available, from 1975 to the present, electronically to 
    University of Calgary students, faculty and staff 
    as History of Science, Technology, and Medicine.


 These are only a few of the dictionaries, encyclopaedias and bibliographies 
 which you will find useful.  Check the reference area for others.




Saundra Lipton (220-3793)
Religious Studies Librarian
The University of Calgary Library