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Religious Studies Subject Guide
"...provides an authoritative and comprehensive guide to the religions of the world and to the concepts, movements, people, and events that have shaped them; 3,500 detailed entries, 30 in-depth articles documenting the attitudes and ideals of major religions, as well as many other key religious topics."
2nd Ed. (2007). 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.
Comprehensive coverage of Islam and of Muslim minorities all over the world, historical through present day. Online version of the entire print text of volumes I to XI and Supplement (Volume XII). Includes 2nd and 3rd editions, plus Encyclopaedia of the Qurʾān and Encyclopedia of Women & Islamic Cultures.
The Encyclopedia of the Qu'ran includes a dictionary of qur'anic terms, concepts, personalities, place names, cultural history and exegesis extended with essays on themes and subjects within qur'anic studies.
Lee Jaffe
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