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JSTOR
JSTOR is an online archive of scholarly materials and it searches articles through the full text, unlike many other databases. However JSTOR includes fewer journals on any specific subject than the subject databases does, and is lacking the most recent 5 years of articles.

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The Grove Encyclopedia of Islamic Art and Architecture by Jonathan M. Bloom (Editor); Sheila S. Blair (Editor)
ISBN: 9780195309911

The Grove Encyclopedia of Islamic Art and Architecture is the most comprehensive reference work in this complex and diverse area of art history. This work offers over 1,600 up-to-date entries on Islamic art and architecture ranging from the Middle East to Central and South Asia, Africa, and Europe and spans over a thousand years of history. Entries provide in-depth art historical and cultural information about dynasties, art forms, artists, architecture, rulers, monuments, archaeological sites and stylistic developments.

Islamic Studies (Oxford Bibliographies Online)
Annotated bibliographies of key literature in many areas of Islamic Studies.
Encyclopaedia of Islam (Brill)

Encyclopedia covering the history of Islam, Islam in the 20th century, and Muslims throughout the world.
Encyclopedia of Women and Islamic Cultures (Brill)

Interdisciplinary, trans-historical, cross-cultural encyclopedia focusing on women and Islamic cultures.
Encyclopedia of Jews in the Islamic World (Brill)

Comprehensive reference work covering the long history of Jews and Muslims living side-by-side in the Middle East. Covers the late medieval, early modern, and modern periods.

Encyclopedia Iranica
The Encyclopædia Iranica is a comprehensive research tool dedicated to the study of Iranian civilization in the Middle East, the Caucasus, Central Asia, and the Indian subcontinent.

Index Islamicus (Brill)
International works in European languages on all aspects of Islam and the Muslim world.
Brepolis Medieval & Early Modern Bibliographies

Secondary sources on the European Middle Ages (c. 400-1500).
Iter Bibliography (EBSCO)

Interdisciplinary literature pertaining to the Middle Ages and Renaissance (400-1700).
Middle Eastern & Central Asian Studies (EBSCO)
Index of research, policy, and scholarly discourse on the peoples of the Middle East, Central Asia, and North Africa.

ArtStor Middle Eastern Studies
Guide to ArtStor images of the history and culture of the Middle East, from Morocco and North Africa to Turkey and Iran, including photographs of important sites, people, and historical events, as well as images of calligraphy, ceramics, textiles, glass, and metalwork.
Archnet
Archnet is an expanding library with over 153,000 records for sites, cities, individuals, firms, media and pedagogical material focused on the built environment of Muslim societies.

Index of Medieval Art
This collection includes images and descriptive data related to the iconography of works of art produced between late Antiquity and the sixteenth century.
ARTstor
Database of over one million high-quality images, useful not only for the fine arts but as a general image resource.