Online Publications of the Ashmolean Museum (University of Oxford)

Islamic collections

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  Catalogue of Islamic Seals and Talismans

  A catalogue of seals and talismans housed at the Ashmolean from the 8th to 19th century Islamic world, by Ludvik Kalus (published Oxford, 1986).
  

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  Embroideries and Samplers from Islamic Egypt

  A selection of 10th to 16th century embroideries from the Newberry collection at the Ashmolean, by Marianne Ellis (published Oxford, 2001).
  

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  Islamic Ceramics

  A select catalogue of the Ashmolean's collection of ceramics from the Islamic world from the 9th to 18th century, by James Allen (published Oxford, 1991).
  

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  The Newberry Collection of Islamic Embroideries

  An unpublished catalogue of the Ashmolean’s collection of Islamic embroideries from Egyptologist Percy Newberry, by Ruth Barnes and Marianne Ellis.
  

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Islamic seal impressions and ownership stamps online

Chester Beatty Library Seals Project
http://www.cbl.ie/islamicseals/

Islamic Manuscripts Collection, University of Michigan
http://www.flickr.com/photos/97661713@N07/sets/72157634195731483/


Iraqi manuscript libraries  ( Middle East Librarians Association's Committee on Iraqi Libraries )
http://oi.uchicago.edu/OI/IRAQ/mela/LibraryStamps/LibraryStamps.htm

Library of the Institut d'Égypte
http://ancientworldbloggers.blogspot.com/2011/12/library-stamps-from-institut-degypte.html

Catalogue of seals and talismans housed at the Ashmolean from the 8th to 19th century Islamic world, by Ludvik Kalus (published Oxford, 1986).
http://jameelcentre.ashmolean.org/collection/7/10228

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Open Access Journal: Quranica - International Journal of Quranic Research

QURANICA - International Journal of Quranic Research
ISSN 2289-5396

"Quranica (ISSN 2289-5396) is an international trilingual (Arabic, English & Malay) peer-reviewed bi-annual journal published by Centre of Quranic Research (CQR), University of Malaya. This Quranica journal has replaced the formerly journal known as International Journal on Quranic Research (ISSN 2180-4893), and it has been considered as a continuation of the previously published issues. It reflects on the full range of current scholarly works on Qur’anic Studies..."

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Open Access Journal Archive: al-Jinān (1870?-1886)

Title: Jinān - الجنان.
Bayrūt : s.n., 1870?-
General: 16 v. ; 26 cm.
Numbering begins each year with al-Juzʼ 1.

Ceased in 1886.

Alphabetical List of Open Access Historical Newspapers and Other Periodicals in Middle East & Islamic Studies

Open Access Journal Archive: al-Hilal (1892-1941)

al-Hilal  (1892-1941)

"Jurji Zaidan founded the monthly magazine Al-Hilal in 1892. It has been continuously published since then and celebrations to commemorate its 120th anniversary were held in Egypt in 2012. In the context of the Memory of Modern Egypt Series documenting the political, social and cultural history of Egypt in the last two hundred years, the Library of Alexandria completed the five year Dar Al-Hilal Documentation project in January 2012, on the occasion of 150th anniversary of the birth of Jurji Zaidan. This project included the digitization of the whole collection of Al-Hilal Magazine from the first year of publication in 1892 to the present day. The Zaidan Foundation website is happy to present, courtesy of the Library of Alexandria, all the issues of Al-Hilal (in Arabic) in the first fifty years between 1892 and 1941 grouped in ten year ..."

[Update March 3, 2023]
Al-Hilal issues are now available from 1892 to 2007 , click here.

Alphabetical List of Open Access Historical Newspapers and Other Periodicals in Middle East & Islamic Studies

Open Access Encyclopedia: İslâm Ansiklopedisi

Türkiye Diyanet Vakfı İslâm ansiklopedisi /
[Türkiye Diyanet Vakfı, İslâm Ansiklopedisi Genel Müdürlüğü].
Published: Üsküdar, İstanbul : Türkiye Diyanet Vakfı, İslâm Ansiklopedisi Genel Müdürlüğü, 1988-
Description : v. : ill. (some col.), col. maps ; 29 cm.

ISBN: 9789753894272 (set)

Contents:

cilt 1. Âb-ı hayât-el-Ahkâmü'ş-şerʻiyye

cilt 2. Ahlâk-Amarı

cilt 3. Amasya-Âşık mûsikisi

cilt 4. Âşık Ömer-Bâlâ Külliyesi

cilt 5. Balaban, Mustafa Rahmi-Beşir Ağa, Moralı

cilt 6. Beşir Ağa Camii-Câfer Paşa Tekkesi

cilt 7. Câʻfer es-Sâdık-Ciltçilik

cilt 8. Cilve-Dârünnedve

cilt 9. Dârüssaâde-Dulkadıroğulları

cilt 10. Dûmetülcendel-Elbise

cilt 11. Elbistan-Eymir

cilt 12. Eys-Fikhü'l-Hadı̂s

cilt 13. Fikih-Gelenek

cilt 14. Gelibolu-Haddesenâ

cilt 15. Hades-Hanefı̂ Mehmed Efendi

cilt 16. Hanefı̂ mezhebi-Hayâ

cilt 17. Hayal-Hilâfiyat

cilt 18. Hilâl-Hüseyin Lâmekânî

cilt 19. Hüseyin Mirza-İbn Haldûn

cilt 20. Haldûn-İbnüʼl-Cezerî

cilt 21. İbnüʼl-Cezzâr-İhvân-ı Müslimîn

cilt 22. İhvân-ı Safâ-İskit

cilt 23. İslâm-Kaade

cilt 24. Kāânî-i-Şîrâzî-Kastamonu

cilt 25. Kastilya-Kile

cilt 26. Kili-Kütahya

cilt 27. Kütahya Mevlevîhânesi-Manisa

cilt 28. Manisa Mevlevîhânesi-Meks

cilt 29. Mekteb-Mısır Mevlevîhânesi

cilt 30. Mısra-Muhammediyye

cilt 31. Muhammediyye-Münâzara

cilt 32. el-Müncid-Nesih

cilt. 33. Nesih-Osmanlılar

cilt. 34. Osmanpazarı-Resuldar

cilt. 35. Resuliler-Sak

cilt. 36. Sakal-Sevm

cilt. 37. Sevr antlaşması-Suveylih

cilt 38. Suyolcu-Şerif en-Nîsâbûrî

cilt 39. Şerif Paşa-Tanzanya

cilt. 40. Tanzimat-Teveccüh

cilt. 41. Tevekkül-Tüsterî.

cilt. 42. Tütün-Vehrân

cilt. 43. Vekâlet-Yûsî

cilt. 44. Yûsuf-Zwemer

Brill's 15 most downloaded journal articles in Middle East & Islamic Studies.

Brill's 15 most downloaded articles from Q4 2013 in the subject area of Middle East & Islamic Studies. These articles are freely accessible until 15 April 2014!

Imagining Hāfez: Rabindranath Tagore in Iran, 1932
Author: Afshin Marashi
Journal of Persianate Studies, Volume 3,No. 1, pp. 46‑77

A New Introduction Sociology of Islam: Social, Political and Economic Transformations in Muslim Societies
Authors: Gary Wood | Tugrul Keskin
Sociology of Islam, Volume 1,No. 1‑2, pp. 1‑6

When Did the Bible Become an Arabic Scripture?
Author: Sidney H. Griffith
Intellectual History of the Islamicate World, Volume 1,No. 1‑2, pp. 7‑23

The ardiyyahs of Ibn al‑Mu'tazz: Breakthrough into Lyricism
Author: Jaroslav Stetkevych
Journal of Arabic Literature, Volume 41,No. 3, pp. 201‑244

The Sociology of Islam: Precedents and Perspectives
Author: Armando Salvatore
Sociology of Islam, Volume 1,No. 1‑2, pp. 7‑13

Democracy and Islam: A Tale of Democratic Struggle in a Muslim Majority State
Author: Mohammad Musfequs Salehin
Sociology of Islam, Volume 1,No. 1‑2, pp. 88‑114

Sociology of Islam: the Desiderata
Author: Bryan S. Turner
Sociology of Islam, Volume 1,No. 1‑2, pp. 14‑16

The Role of Authentic Islam: The Way Forward for Women in Saudi Arabia
Author: Amani Hamdan
Hawwa, Volume 10,No. 3, pp. 200‑220

Introduction
Authors: Camilla Adang | Meira Polliack | Sabine Schmidtke
Intellectual History of the Islamicate World, Volume 1,No. 1‑2, pp. 1‑5

Culture or Class? Why Islam is Neither the Question nor the Answer
Author: Jeff Tan
Sociology of Islam, Volume 1,No. 1‑2, pp. 64‑87

Even If It's Not True It's True: Using Unreliable Hadīths in Sunni Islam
Author: Jonathan A.C. Brown
Islamic Law and Society, Volume 18,No. 1, pp. 1‑52

The Muslim‑Majority Character of Israeli Constitutional Law
Author: Adam S. Hofri-Winogradow
Middle East Law and Governance, Volume 2,No. 1, pp. 43‑80

The Muslim Brotherhood and Democratic Transition in Egypt
Author: Carrie Rosefsky Wickham
Middle East Law and Governance, Volume 3,No. 1‑2, pp. 204‑223

Discourses of the 2011 Arab Revolutions
Author: Ken Seigneurie
Journal of Arabic Literature, Volume 43,No. 2‑3, pp. 484‑509

Redefining Islamic Tradition
Author: Etty Terem
Islamic Law and Society, Volume 20, No. 4, pp. 425‑475