Research Guides @ Fordham: Religion & Theology: Islam

Reference Sources

Encyclopaedia of Islam
Part of Brill Online Reference Works. Once inside the resource, scroll down the page to access the multivolume 2nd and 3rd editions and the Historical Atlas of Islam.

Arabic-English Dictionary of Dictionary of Qur'anic Usage by Elsaid Badawi; Muhammed Abdel Haleem
Brill, 2008.
Call number [RH Reference Area] BP133 .B23 2008

The Qur'an [electronic resource] : An Encyclopedia by Oliver Leaman (Editor)
Routledge, 2006.
Call number [RH Reference Area] BP133 .Q87 2006

Encyclopedia of Canonical Ḥadīth [electronic resource] by Gautier H. A. Juynboll
Brill, 2007.
Call number [RH Reference Area] BP135.2 .J89 2007

The Quran

Research Tips:

When researching the Quran, you many need to try multiple spellings.

Quran OR Qur'an OR Qurʼān OR Koran

Find print versions of the Quran in Reference and/or the Stacks at this call number range:

BP100-134

Find print and electronic versions of the Quran in the library catalog with the following Library of Congress Subject Heading:

Qurʼan

Open access internet resource:

Quran.com
A free resource for exploring the Quran. Provides translations, tafsir or commentaries, recitations, word-by-word translation, and multimedia tools to enhance learning.

Selected print & ebooks:

The Qur'an [electronic resource] : A Translation for the 21st Century by Adil Salahi
The Islamic Foundation, 2019.

American Qur'an by Sandow Birk
Liveright Publishing Corporation, 2016.
Call number [RH Reference Area] BP109 .B57 2016

The Qur'an [electronic resource] : English translation and parallel Arabic text, rev. new ed. by M. A. S. Abdel Haleem
Oxford University Press, 2010.

Selected Concordances, Commentaries, Criticism

A Concordance of the Qur'an by Hanna E. Kassis; Fazlur Rahman (Foreword by)
University of California Press, 1983.
Call number [RH Oversize Stacks] BP133 .K37 1983

The Qur'an and the Bible : Text and Commentary by Gabriel Said Reynolds; Ali Quli Qarai (trans.)
Yale University Press, 2018.
Call number [RH Stacks] BP134.B4 R469 2018

The Study Quran : A New Translation and Commentary by Seyyed Hossein Nasr, editor in chief
HarperOne, 2015.
On Digital Reserve; check catalog through title link.
Call number [RH Stacks] BP109 2015

Qur'an and Woman [electronic resource] : Rereading the Sacred Text from a Woman's Perspective, 2nd ed. by Amina Wadud
Oxford University Press, 1999.

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