Islamic Studies

This guide provides various scholarly resources for the study of Islam and select topics related to Muslim culture, practice and belief. The focus here is to provide students and researchers with some of the main tools available through the library and across the web. The iternet is repleate with tens of thousands of sites that offer vast amounts of information, particularly for those who are members of the faith community of the Islamic tradition, however, effort here has been to foucs on resources that have significant scholarly and academic approaches. This guide has not included topical bibliographies, however, you will find links to those sites that have complied some of the very best. Where Brown does not have a specific resource we will do our best to obtain it either through one of our reciprocal agreements or purchase.

You can always find new titles from the past six months by clicking on the new titles link from the library page. You can filter by language, topic, and many other fields.

Check out our Collection Development policy. It is always possible to make a request for new materials.

For journals please consult the ejournals page of the Library website.

For a reasonably comprehensive list of e-journal holdings at Brown for Islamic Studies click here.

For paper, only journals consult the Bruknow and search under Journal Title.