Colleagues,
The Oxford Islamic Studies Online database is now available in GALILEO and ready for you to explore. The database features reference resources and commentary by renowned scholars in areas such as global Islamic history, concepts, people, practices, politics, and culture, with continually updated content. The Oxford Islamic Studies Online encompasses over 5,000 A–Z reference entries, chapters from scholarly and introductory works, Qur’anic materials, primary sources, images, maps, timelines, and offers a multi-layered reference experience designed to provide an initial search for anyone needing information and context on Islam.
The current core content titles include the following:
-The Grove Encyclopedia of Islamic Art & Architecture (March 2009), a three-volume reference work offering the most comprehensive coverage of Islamic art throughout the world, beginning with the inception of Islam and continuing to the present day.
-The Oxford Encyclopedia of the Islamic World (March 2009), a new six-volume work covering the full geographical and historical extent of Islam.
-The Oxford Encyclopedia of the Modern Islamic World, available in full on the site with access to archived articles that have been updated in the new Oxford Encyclopedia of the Islamic World.
-The Islamic World: Past and Present, an accessible A–Z reference covering key people, events and concepts in Islamic history.
-The Oxford Dictionary of Islam, in addition to being an integral part of the cross-searchable site content, all 2,500 entries in this authoritative quick reference are free to the public. Anyone can access or cite Dictionary content by using the on-site browse or major Web search engines.
-The Oxford History of Islam, a chaptered work containing authoritative essays by leading Muslim and non-Muslim scholars on the origins of the faith, arts, sciences, and history to the present-day situation of Islam.
– What Everyone Needs to Know About Islam, a question-and-answer guide by John L. Esposito, in which he responds to the most commonly asked questions about Muslim culture and Islam with thoughtful, unbiased replies.
-Teaching Islam, edited by Brannon M. Wheeler for the American Academy of Religion’s Teaching Religious Studies series, this work brings together leading scholars to offer perspectives on how to teach Islam.
– Makers of Contemporary Islam, a chaptered work by OISO editor in chief John L. Esposito and senior editor John O. Voll that explores the lives and thought of some of contemporary Islam’s most important thinkers.
-Two Oxford World’s Classics versions of the Qur’an: M.A.S. Abdel Haleem’s The Qur’an, a prose translation, and The Koran Interpreted, a renowned verse translation by A.J. Arberry.
– Hanna Kassis’ Concordance of the Qur’an.
Please take a look at this new and exciting Galileo database and ask a Librarian if you have any questions or concerns!
Persistent link: http://www.galileo.usg.edu/express?link=oxdg-flo1
More information can be found on the GHC Library Blog: http://ghclibraries.wordpress.com/
Thanks!
Stacy
Stacy L. Brown, MLIS
Assistant Librarian for Public Services
Faculty Advisor, Green Highlands
Georgia Highlands College-Cartersville
stbrown@highlands.edu
678.872.8082
