This ebook is a selective guide designed to help scholars and students of Islamic studies find reliable sources of information by directing them to the best available scholarly materials in whatever form or format they appear from books, chapters, and journal articles to online archives, electronic data sets, and blogs. Written by a leading international authority on the subject, the ebook provides bibliographic information supported by direct recommendations about which sources to consult and editorial commentary to make it clear how the cited sources are interrelated related. A reader will discover, for instance, the most reliable introductions and overviews to the topic, and the most important publications on various areas of scholarly interest within this topic. In Islamic studies, as in other disciplines, researchers at all levels are drowning in potentially useful scholarly information, and this guide has been created as a tool for cutting through that material to find the exact source you need. This ebook is a static version of an article from Oxford Bibliographies Online: Islamic Studies, a dynamic, continuously updated, online resource designed to provide authoritative guidance through scholarship and other materials relevant to the study of the Islamic religion and Muslim cultures. Oxford Bibliographies Online covers most subject disciplines within the social science and humanities, for more information visit www.aboutobo.com.
In Islamic studies, as in other disciplines, researchers at all levels are drowning in potentially useful scholarly information, and this guide has been created as a tool for cutting through that material to find the exact source you need.
In Islamic studies, as in other disciplines, researchers at all levels are drowning in potentially useful scholarly information, and this guide has been created as a tool for cutting through that material to find the exact source you need.
Oxford Bibliographies Online covers most subject disciplines within the social science and humanities, for more information visit www.oxfordbibligraphies.com.
In Islamic studies, as in other disciplines, researchers at all levels are drowning in potentially useful scholarly information, and this guide has been created as a tool for cutting through that material to find the exact source you need.
In social work, as in other disciplines, researchers at all levels are drowning in potentially useful scholarly information, and this guide has been created as a tool for cutting through that material to find the exact source you need.
The London Hanged: Crime and Civil Society in the Eighteenth Century. 2d ed. London: Verso, 2003. Linebaugh views the imposition of capital punishment as a window into the structure of society in 18th-century London.
"Civil Society in Indonesia: The Potential and Limits of Muhammadiyah." Sojourn 17, no. 2 (2002): 133-163. Using case studies of a hospital and a school, the author investigates the complementary relationship between state and nonstate ...
Protest and Possibilities: Civil Society and Coalitions for Political Change in Malaysia. Palo Alto, CA: Stanford University Press, 2006. A significant and well-researched analysis of refomasi (reform) in contemporary Malaysia.
Oxford University Press. â–»Wuthnow, Robert. 2004. Saving America? Faith-based services and the future of civil society. Princeton, NJ: Princeton Univ. Press. Reports the findings of three national studies that conclude that ...
Edited by Neal Salisbury. Boston: Bedford, 1997. First published in 1682. The narrative of an English Puritan woman, held captive by Native Americans for six months in New England, serves as the foundational text of the genre of the ...