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Includes definitions, etymologies, and quotations.

Multi-volume history of Africa.

Conveys what daily life is like for people in these selected regions.

Articles cover prominent individuals, events, trends, places, political movements, art forms, business and trade, religions, ethnic groups, organizations, and countries throughout Africa.

Nearly 1,100 entries, covering the earliest evolution of humans to the new millennium.

Encyclopedic entries arranged alphabetically within ethno-linguistic classifications.

Offers a comprehensive view of African thought, covering the intellectual tradition both on the continent in its entirety and throughout the African Diaspora in the Americas and in Europe.

Multi-volume history of Latin America.

Focuses primarily on the defeat of the Aztec, Incan, and Mayan civilizations.

Over 200 entries on politics, government, economics, society, culture, and more.

Designed to help researchers efficiently locate reliable sources of information. Each subject module contains a literary research guide to the most significant sources in that area of study.

Events, people and terms associated with diplomacy and international relations from ancient times to the present, from a global perspective.

Examines how the interrelationships of economics, politics, and culture determine levels of stability within regions around the world.

Designed to help researchers efficiently locate reliable sources of information. Each subject module contains a literary research guide to the most significant sources in that area of study.

Over 850 A-Z entries signed by leading scholars. Requires creating a user name and password.

More than 600 entries on concepts derived from across the social sciences, from sociology and anthropology to political science, economics, and human geography.

Multi-volume history of China.

Multi-volume history of Japan.

Conveys what daily life is like for people in these selected regions.

Provides fully searchable and browsable English-Japanese and Japanese-English dictionaries, the Encyclopedia Nipponica and Encyclopedia of Japan, articles published in the weekly magazine Ekonomisuto, the Toyo Bunko, and other resources.

Multi-volume history of India.

Two volume history of Egypt.

Multi-volume history of Iran.

Multi-volume history of Islam.

Multi-volume history of Judaism.

Multi-volume history of Turkey.

Conveys what daily life is like for people in these selected regions.

Comprehensive research tool dedicated to the study of Iranian civilization in the Middle East, the Caucasus, Central Asia, and the Indian subcontinent

Provides an exhaustive and organized overview of Jewish life and knowledge from the Second Temple period to the contemporary State of Israel, from Rabbinic to modern Yiddish literature, from Kabbalah to "Americana" and from Zionism to the contribution of Jews to world cultures.

Includes articles on all aspects of the Islamic World. Discusses religion, history, politics, culture, distinguished Muslims, tribes and dynasties, crafts and sciences, geography, ethnography, flora and fauna, and other topics.

Begun in 2007, the third edition of Brill’s Encyclopaedia of Islam sets out the present state of our knowledge of the Islamic world. It is published in five substantial segments each year.

Edited by retired OU Professor Dr. Norman Stillman, this source covers the Jews of Muslim lands particularly in the late medieval, early modern and modern periods.

Focuses on women and the civilizations and societies in which Islam has played a historic role. Surveys all facets of life (society, economy, politics, religion, the arts, popular culture, sports, health, science, medicine, environment, and so forth) of women in these societies.

Encyclopedic dictionary of qur'anic terms, concepts, personalities, place names, cultural history and exegesis extended with essays on the most important themes and subjects within qur'anic studies.

Encyclopedic entries arranged alphabetically within ethno-linguistic classifications.

Designed to help researchers efficiently locate reliable sources of information. Each subject module contains a literary research guide to the most significant sources in that area of study.