Resource Guide:
History and Culture of Classical Islam

• The Sifter (A Tool for Food History Research)

The following websites are librarian-evaluated to provide trustworthy information for your topic. They include digitized collections connected to your topic.

• Discover Islamic Art
• Islamic Library
• Princeton Digital Library of Islamic Manuscripts
• Catalogue of Illuminated Manuscripts
• Arab Image Foundation
• Saudi Aramco World Digital Image Archive
• ArchNet

Subject headings are selected terms to represent a topic. Searching subject headings in the library catalog will bring the most complete list of results. Below are some example subject headings. More subject headings can be located in the red books at the reference desk.

• Islamic architecture
• Islamic art and symbolism
• Asia, Central--Civilization--Islamic influences.
• Law--Islamic influences.
• Civilization, Arab
• Islamic Civilization
• Islamic countries--History.
• Islamic countries--Social conditions.
• Islamic education
• Islamic empire
• Islamic Fundamentalism -- Syria
• Islamic illumination of books and manuscripts.
• Islamic Law
• Islamic Literature
• Islamic marriage customs and rites.
• Islamic modernism -- Middle East
• Islamic music
• Islamic painting
• Islamic philosophy
• Islamic poetry, Arabic
• Islamic Religious Education

The following databases are specifically useful for your topic. You can search them individually on the databases page.

• Academic Search Complete
• Bridgeman Art Library
• Credo Reference
• Encyclopedia of Religion
• Humanities International Complete
• JSTOR
• MasterFILE Premier
• Military & Government Collection
• National Gallery Collection
• Religion and Philosophy Collection
• Women’s Studies International

The following journals supply articles to the library’s databases. You can see if a specific journal supplies articles to our databases by searching the journal title on the library journal page.

• Contemporary Islam
• Journal of Islamic Studies
• The Muslim World: A Quarterly Review of History, Culture, Religions & the Christian Mission in Islamdom
• Anthropology of the Middle East
• Journal of Middle East Women's Studies
• Arabic and Middle Eastern Literatures

Below are some selected materials in the library with their shelving locations. Browsing in the listed areas of the library will help you find more materials for your topic.