Middle East & Islamic Studies: Finding secondary sources

Find information on academic areas of business, social sciences, humanities, general academic, general science, education and multi-cultural topics; resource provides access to major popular and scholarly journals with many full-text articles.

A searchable collection of open access research papers and datasets.

Citation database, discovery platform, and research analytics suite that links to nearly 1B citations to journal articles (including preprints), books (and their specific chapters), and conference proceedings. Covers all subjects.

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Enables you to search specifically for scholarly literature, including peer-reviewed papers, theses, books, preprints, abstracts and technical reports from all broad areas of research. Use Google Scholar to find articles from a wide variety of academic publishers, professional societies, preprint repositories and universities, as well as scholarly articles available across the web.

A general reference database for over 175 subjects from magazines, journals and newspapers, including peer-reviewed and scholarly works.

Covers scientific literature which utilizes artificial intelligence to enhance its search capabilities. Includes millions of papers from all fields of science published in academic journals, university presses, and scholarly societies from around the world.

Provides an image archive of important scholarly journal literature in nearly all the humanities and social sciences disciplines, international and foreign areas studies, and many of the sciences. UNC patrons have access to extensive retrospective holdings of hundreds of journals, starting with the first issues. Excludes the most recent 2-5 years of currently available journals.

One of the largest specialized databases in Islamic Studies and Humanities in Persian language. It provides full text access to more than 1300 magazines for over a million articles.

A searchable full-text archive of literary and cultural Arabic periodicals from most of the Arab countries.

A major index to journal articles, book reviews, and essay collections in the field of religion. The ATLA Religion Database covers over 1,400 journals, including over 600 being currently indexed, and nearly 16,000 collections of essays.

The equivalent print indexes are

• Religion Index One: periodicals, 1949-present;
• Religion Index Two: multi-author works, 1960-present;
• Research in Ministry, 1981-1996;
• Index to Book Reviews in Religion, 1949-present;
• and Methodist Reviews Index, 1818-1985.

Citations to articles published worldwide from 1971 for East, Southeast and South Asia. This on-line version of the Bibliography of Asian Studies (BAS) contains records on all subjects (especially humanities and social sciences) pertaining to East, Southeast, and South Asia published worldwide from 1971 to the present. Through the 1991 printed version, the BAS included citations to western-language periodical articles, individually authored monographs, chapters in edited volumes, conference proceedings, anthologies, and Festschriften, etc. Since 1992, newly published individual monographs are no longer being added to the database, and users seeking monographs are urged to consult other general resources and databases (such as RLIN, OCLC's WorldCat, etc.).

"The international classified bibliography of publications in European languages on all aspects of Islam and the Muslim world". These materials, from about 3000 periodicals worldwide, include journal articles, books, reviews, papers, and multi-author works. The authors are Western scholars and Muslims writing in European languages.

The bibliography covers numerous disciplines such as bibliography, history of the Islamic book, education, religion and theology, philosophy, science and mathematics, architecture, music, theater and drama, geography and ecology, anthropology and sociology, archaeology, cookery, epigraphy, economics, history, political thought, politics and current affairs, and the languages and literatures of countries and regions worldwide.

Descriptive data and images related to the iconography of works of art produced between late Antiquity and the sixteenth century. Although the Index of Medieval Art was formerly known as the Index of Christian Art, it now includes secular subjects as well as a growing number of subjects from medieval Jewish and Islamic culture.

Index to Jewish Periodicals provides links to articles that focus on the study of Jewish affairs and Judaism around the world, including Jewish culture, history, literature, religion.

Bānk-i ittilā'āt-i nashriyāt-i kishvar (Magiran) is a database which provides electronic access to thousands of magazines and millions of articles on many diverse subjects published in Iran.

RAMBI is a selective list of scholarly articles published in journals and as part of collections of articles covering Jewish studies and Israel, based largely on the collections of the National Library of Israel.

Provides an exhaustive and organized overview of Jewish life and knowledge from the beginnings of Judaism to the present.

Definitive publication covering the whole scope of Islamic religion, life, and culture. This online version includes all of the 2nd edition and will incorporate new entries from the ongoing 3rd edition, as they are published. The Encyclopaedia highlights famous individual Muslims, tribes and dynasties, the sciences and the arts, institutions and organizations, and the history and geography of Islamic countries. The geographical scope includes the early Islamic empire, the Ottoman Empire, Islamic areas such as Iran, Central, Asia, and Indonesia, and Islam in other countries.

An encyclopaedic dictionary of quranic terms, concepts, personalities, place names, cultural history and exegesis extended with essays on the most important themes and subjects within quranic studies. The EQ is the first comprehensive, multi-volume reference work on the Qur'ān to appear in a Western language. The EQ Online includes access to 62 Early Printed Western Qur'āns Online. With regular updates.

An essential reference work for students and researchers in the fields of gender studies, Middle Eastern and Islamic studies, as well as scholars of religion, history, politics, anthropology, geography and related disciplines.

Provides sophisticated online recommendations to the core scholarship on a subject as determined by experts in the field. Each module constitutes a convenient and comprehensive introduction to the essential body of literature that has shaped research on a topic. At the click of a mouse, you therefore have 24/7 access to expert recommendations that have been rigorously peer-reviewed and vetted to ensure scholarly accuracy and objectivity.

Each OBO subject database allows you to identify the core authors, works, ideas, and debates that have shaped the scholarly conversation so you can find the key literature. All the bibliographic essays have been peer-reviewed, and the specific entries are linked to full-text content available through the web or the UNC Library. The "My OBO" feature also allows you to create a personalized list of citations.

Includes an exclusive and growing selection of more than 5000 books available in 10 main subject areas. These areas include books in: Political Science & International Relations, Business & Economics, Social Sciences, Law, Language & Literature, History, Geography & Biography, Islamic Jurisprudence, Islam & Other Disciplines, Specialized Islamic Sciences, Educational Sciences.

A searchable collection of open access research papers and datasets.

Indexes US dissertations from 1861 with full text available from 1997; masters theses covered selectively including some full text. Citations for dissertations from 1980 include 350-word abstracts, while masters' theses from 1988 have 150-word abstracts. Selectively covers dissertations from Great Britain and other European universities for recent years.

In addition to this database, the full text of the majority of UNC theses and dissertations from 2006, and all beginning in 2008, are freely available electronically from the UNC Library: Dissertations | Theses

Search engine and access tool to millions of graduate theses and dissertations published around the world.