Library Guides: PLSC 497: Contemporary Middle East/North African Politics: Getting Started with Reference Works

Reference Resources

Islamic Studies - Oxford Bibliographies This link opens in a new window
Use to identify key works recommended by scholars relating to Islamic history, culture, and politics. A good place to begin your search.
"The articles (in Oxford Bibliographies in Islamic Studies) present a guided tour through the key literature on each topic, providing context for its development, and a balanced overview of the major issues within a given topic."
Gale Virtual Reference Library (GVRL) This link opens in a new window
An "academic wikipedia", Use to find scholarly essays from hundreds of reference sources.
A collection of over 2000 reference resources.

African Studies - Oxford Bibliographies
Brief essays by experts on major topics. Each essay selects and describes the important scholarship on the topic. Items in the annotated bibliographies usually link to library holdings
Political Science - Oxford Bibliographies
Brief essays by experts on major topics. Each essay selects and describes the important scholarship on the topic. Items in the annotated bibliographies usually link to library holdings