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Secondary Source Databases
Additional Databases Specific to This Class, Islam
These databases, provided by the SCU Library, will primarily give you secondary sources: largely journal articles, and even worse, mere references to books and other tantalizing items.
- Oxford Bibliographies - Islamic Studies This link opens in a new windowThis resource offers exclusive, authoritative research guides on Islamic Studies. Combining the best features of an annotated bibliography and a high-level encyclopedia, these bibliographies guide researchers to the best available scholarship across a wide variety of topics including history, religion, philosophy, anthropology, Arabic language and literature, as well as literatures in other languages including Persian, Turkish, and Urdu.
- America: History & Life with Full Text This link opens in a new windowThis database covers the history and culture of the United States and Canada from prehistory to the present. With selective indexing for 1,700 journals from 1964 to the present, this database also provides full-text coverage of more than 196 journals and more than 92 books.
- Historical Abstracts with full-text This link opens in a new windowThis database covers the history of the world (except the United States and Canada) from 1450 forward. It provides selective indexing of historical articles from more than 1,800 journals in over 40 languages back to 1955, as well as access to the full text of more than 316 journals and more than 138 books.
- ATLA Religion Database with ATLASerials This link opens in a new windowIndex to periodicals, research in ministry, book reviews in religion and Methodist reviews. 1949-present. Updated semi-annually. Includes online versions of the entire runs of a core collection of more than fifty significant scholarly periodicals in the field of religion, most of which go back to 1949.
- Religious and Theological Abstracts This link opens in a new windowProvides summaries of articles appearing in scholarly journals in the fields of religion and theology, including Christian, Jewish, and other World religions. Provides English language abstracts of articles in English, Hebrew, Afrikaans, and major European languages. Coverage: 1950 to present.
- Academic Search Complete This link opens in a new windowA multidisciplinary database providing access to more than 8,500 full-text periodicals, including more than 7,300 peer-reviewed journals. It also offers indexing and abstracts for more than 12,500 journals. Covers a wide range of academic topics including business, education, social sciences, humanities, science, & engineering. Coverage varies, with some publications going back to 1911.
- JSTOR This link opens in a new windowProvides image and full-text online access to back issues of selected scholarly journals in history, economics, political science, demography, mathematics, biology, and other fields of the humanities, social sciences, and life sciences. Consult the online tables of contents for holdings, as coverage varies for each title. Updated monthly.
Primary Source Databases
Primary Sources
Primary sources can be found in databases, books, museums, archives, and out in the open.
Chances are you already found some primary sources through the books and articles you've search for.
To supplement that, here are some online repositories that have digitized primary sources.
- ARTstor This link opens in a new windowContains more than 2.5 million high-quality digital images for educational and research use. In addition to reproductions of a wide range of works of art and architecture from all times and places throughout the world, the collection also contains photographs and other images useful for study in many disciplines in the humanities and social sciences. Updated continually.
- EuropeanaEuropeana, similar to DPLA, is an aggregate service that connects users to digitized resources from institutions all over Europe. This is a great place to start if you're looking for resources related to European history.
- Islamic Heritage Project (Harvard University)Over 800 primary source objects digitized to support inquiry of Islamic heritage.
- Manuscripts of the Muslim World (Free Library of Philadelphia)Over 1200 handwritten books and paintings digitized from the Rare Book Department that come from the Middle East, North Africa, and South Asia and were made between 1000 and 1900. Browse a sampling of religious texts, calligraphic poetry, literary illustrations, and court portraits.
- Islamic Manuscripts (University of Cambridge)In this digital collection, Cambridge presents the full collection of their earliest Qurʼānic manuscripts copied during the first four Centuries of Islam.