The Encyclopedia of Women and Islamic Cultures is now available on the libraries website under Databases by Title. It will be valuable for faculty and students involved in study and research regarding the Islamic world.

“The Encyclopedia of Women and Islamic Cultures (EWIC) is an interdisciplinary, trans- historical and global project. It brings together upwards of 1,000 scholars to write critical essays on women, Muslim and non-Muslim 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. EWIC hopes both to offer the state of the art in the broad sweep of topics to inform the general audience and to take on cutting-edge issues to stimulate new research in new terrains.”

This reference work includes the five volumes of the print set.

• Volume one contains: Methodologies, Paradigms and Sources for Studying Women and Islamic Cultures, Disciplinary Entries, and a Bibliography of Books and Articles in European Languages since 1993.
• Volume 2: Family, Law and Politics.
• Volume 3: Family, Body, Sexuality and Health.
• Volume 4: Economics, Education, Mobility, and Space.
• Volume 5: Practices, Interpretations and Representations.

For more information on this resource, contact a subject librarian.