Islamic Studies

Despite the title, this database is not an encyclopedia of the canonical hadith collections. Readers consulting this work will not be able to accessibly find the hadiths listed in the Six Books. This exhaustive work was written by G.H.A. Juynboll, a scholar whose adherence to the Commons Link premise leads him to conclude that the vast corpus of hadith collections are forged narrations. What is valuable in this compilation is the biographies and contributions of the numerous hadith transmitters and collectors.

The Encyclopaedia of Islam Online (EI Online) is an invaluable reference tool, an essential key to understanding the world of Islam. The Encyclopaedia is a large-scale collective reference work compiled by the most prominent scholars in the field, touching on all aspects of Islam from the time of the Prophet to the present day.

The Encyclopaedia of the Qur’ān Online is an encyclopaedic dictionary of qur’ānic terms, concepts, personalities, place names, cultural history and exegesis extended with essays on the most important themes and subjects within qur’ānic studies. The Encyclopaedia of the Qur’ān Online is the first comprehensive, multivolume reference work on the Qur’ān to appear in a Western language.
Encyclopaedia of the Qur’ān Online includes direct access to 62 Early Printed Western Qur’āns Online and the Electronic Qurʾān Concordance, a unique online finding aid for textual research.

The Encyclopedia of Women and Islamic Cultures Online is an interdisciplinary, trans-historical, and global project embracing women and Islamic cultures in every region where there have been significant Muslim populations. It aims to cover every topic for which there is significant research, examining these regions from the period just before the rise of Islam to the present. The Encyclopedia of Women and Islamic Cultures Online crosses history, geographic borders and disciplines to create a groundbreaking reference work reflecting the very latest research on gender studies and the Islamic world