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The following is a list of extant reference works relating to Islam, and the subjects which are covered in them. In some cases, like with "Islam A to Z", it is a comparatively short work in general, and on that basis there isn't that much to be gained by indicating which topics it gives greater attention. In other cases, there is also an indication as to the relative amount of length individual articles are given, as that can serve as an indicator as to which are considered of being more "encyclopedic" in the eyes of those who prepared the work.

Islam A to Z[edit]

Islam A to Z, by Ludwig W. Adamec, Scarecrow Press, 2002, ISBN 0-8108-4505-9.

Major articles[edit]

2 pages or more

  • Introduction – The Message of Islam; The Abbasid State; Institutional Development; Muslim Reform Movements;
  • 'Abbasid Caliphate;

Significant articles[edit]

3 paragraphs or over ½ column (21 lines to 2 pages

Minor articles[edit]

1 or 2 paragraphs, ½ column (20 lines or less

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Subarticles[edit]

  • Introduction - The Message of Islam***; The Spread of Islam**; The Umayyad Caliphate**; The ‘Abbasid State***; Institutional Development***; Islamic Reform Movements***;

The Qurۥan: an encyclopedia[edit]

The Qurۥan: an encyclopedia, edited by Oliver Leaman, London and New York: Routledge, 2006

Articles with subarticles[edit]

  • Adam – The Creation of Adam; The Garden of Eden; Adam's repentance; Adam's death;
  • Akhar – Akhir; Al-akhira;
  • ۢAli ibn Abi Talib – References in the Qurۥan; ۢAli and the exegeses of the Qurۥan – tafsir and taۢۥwil; Ali and the compilation of the Qur'an;
  • Allah – The concept of God in the Qurۥan; Etymology; Existence of God; The Nature of God; Attributes and names of God;
  • Arab or Arabia – Mecca; The Origin of the city; The Kaۢba; The Hajj; Mecca's physical structure; Economic life; Mecca in modern times;
  • Arabic language – Arabic and the Qurۥan; Development of Arabic in the shadow of the Qurۥan and diglossia; Middle Arabic; Factors of change in Classical Arabic; Renaissance of Arabic; Arabic dialects;
  • Arguments and the Qurۥan – Word order; Is the Qurۥan a code?; The Naturalness of belief; The Use of reasons; Reasons and the logic of the Qurۥan;
  • Mohammed Arkoun – A Bio-bibliograpical sketch; Arkoun's critical philosophy and epistemology; The Qurۥan in the Arab-Muslim cultural system; Orientalist and social-science approaches to Qurۥanic studies;
  • Art and the Qurۥan – Sufism and art; Calligraphy; Geometry; Music; Reciting the book;
  • Aya – Technical definition; Contextual meanings; Aya numbering; Aya length; Major classifications; Content and subject matter; Structure and parallelism; Muhkamat and mtashabihat; Punctuation of the verse; Preferred interpretations of the verse; General interpretations; Contextual meanings of mutashabihat; English equivalents of mutashabihat; Types of contrasts; Ayat al-sadja;
  • Burhan/Bayna/Sultan – Burhan; Bayna; Sultan;
  • Calligraphy and the Qurۥan – Early calligraphic developments; The Reform of Arabic script; Development of cursive scripts; Types of calligraphy;
  • Character – Purification of the soul; Change of character;
    • Character – Change of character – The Truthful character; The Proud character; The Irascible character; The Forebearing and forgiving character; The Patient character; The Virtuous character;
  • Christianity – Jesus as God; The Trinity; The Punishment of Christians;
  • Conversion – The Qurۥanic approach;
  • Creation – The Emanationist view; The Creationist view;
  • Death – The Soul; Hardships and agonies; The Living and the dead; Do the dead hear?; Intercession for the dead and visiting graveyards; Crying at graves; Talking of the dead; Euthenasia and suicide;
  • Devil – Iblis, the rebel; Satan, the tempter;
  • Eschatology – The Concept of the hereafter in the Islamic tradition; Al-akhira; Existence of the afterlife; Death; The Day of Judgment; The Signs of the hours;
  • Fate – Theological views; The Fatalistic view; The Libertarian view; The Middle-of-the-road view; The Philosophical view; The Sufi view;
  • Grace – The Special favour of God; Human response to God's favour; Human grace;
  • Habb or Habba – Habb/habba as a proof of creation and resurrection; Care and mercy; Mithqal habba (the weight of a seed): perspective and justice; Habba (grain seed) and sunbula (ear): generosity of Allah's reward;
  • Hadith – The Sunan works of Abu Dawud and others;
  • Happiness – The Qurۥanic view; Miskawayh's view; al-Isfahani's view; Al-Ghazali's view;
  • Hell – The Topography of hell; The Inhabitants of hell; The Chronology of hell; The Rhetorical strategy of hell;
  • Historical events and the Qurۥan – History and prophecy; Myth and history; Norms of history;
  • Ibrahim – Birth and early life; The Holy Land; Sacrifice; Ten words and the resurrection of the birds; Death and burial;
  • Insan/Nas – The Creation of human beings; The Psychological nature of the human; The Mission of humanity;
  • Irada – The Angels and the devils; Human action;
  • ۢIsa – The 'Death' of Jesus; The 'Divinity' of Jesus; The Raising of Jesus; God's promises to Jesus; The Islamic view of the fate of Jesus; The Detail of the Qurۥanic account; The Significance of Jesus and the day of Judgment;
  • ۢIshq – Etymology and usage in the hadith; Sura Joseph; Sufi exegesis: the Qurۥan as the scripture of ۢIshq; ۢUshshaq as Allah's chosen people: the Covenant of ۢIshq;
  • Islam – Basic beliefs; The Five Pillars; The Past and the present;
  • Israۥiliyyat – Israelites; Transmitters of Israۥiliyyat; Textual authority of Israۥiliyyat;
  • Jerusalem – Jerusalem in the life of Prophet Muhammad;
  • Knowledge – Man's knowledge and God's knowledge; Ignorance (jahal); Knowledge (ۢilm) and faith (iman); Four means to knowledge; The innate knowledge of God; The Soul's knowledge of God; Al-Ghazali's view; The Verse of Light;
  • Language and the Qurۥan – Doctrine of inimitability (of form); Vocabulary; System of declensions; The Syntax;
  • Letters – The Abbreviated letters: al-muqattaۢat;
  • Marriage – Creation and pairing; Impediments to marriage; Contracting a marriage; Spousal rights and obligations;
  • Meccan and Medinan suras and the Qurۥan – The Style and emphasis of the Meccan suras; Time of revelation;
  • Money – Interest; Charity; Charity and punishment; Inheritance and wills; Debts; Loans; Using wealth; The Poor; Hoarding; Extravagance; Miserliness; Moderation in giving; Bribery; Contentment; Envy; The Best charity; On begging; Business conduct;
  • Morality – Early Arab virtues; Morality in the Qurۥan; Goodness (khayr) and righteousness (hirr); Justice and responsibility; On marriage and eating; The Work ethic;
  • Muhammad – The Life of the Prophet; Muhammad in the Qurۥan; Muhammad and other Islamic sources; Whose Muhammad? Which Islam?;
  • Musa – Birth of Moses; Midian; Moses and Pharaoh; Revelation of the Torah; Holy Land; Death of Moses;
  • Nafs – Nafs and ruh; Nafs and qalb; The Nafs as self; Nafs and passion; Nafs and jalis; Nafs, ruh and psychology;
  • Nahda – Wider responses to conolonialism and modernity;
  • Natural world and the Qurۥan – The Example of water and light; Trees;
  • Said Nursi – Nursi's writings;
  • Origins, organization and influences on the Qurۥan – The Classical Western attitude towards the origin of Islam; Western orientalist discourse; Modern period; Critique of the study of origin;
  • Paradise – Adam's paradise; Eschatological paradise;
    • Paradise – Eschatological paradise – The Topography of Paradise; The Pleasures of Paradise; The Virgins of Paradise (Houris); Interaction between God and man in paradise;
  • Philosophy and the Qurۥan – The Varieties of Islamic philosophy; The Islamic sciences; Political philosophy; The Soul; Logic; Philosophy's relationship with the Qurۥan; The Role of the Qurۥan in Islamic philosophy; The Effect of philosophy on the Qurۥan;
  • Prophecy – The Angel Gabriel; The Revelation of the Qurۥan; The Path of Revelation is protected against mistakes; How the Qurۥan was revealed; Prophecy in Islamic philosophy;
  • Qurۥan – The Qurۥanic message; The Themes of the Qurۥan;
  • Qurۥanic studies – Meccan and Medinan revelations; Inimitability of the Qurۥan; Consonance in the Qurۥan; Argumentation in the Qurۥan; Reasons for revelation; Abrogating and abrogated; Clear and ambiguous; Parables and similitudes; The Seven modes;
  • Repentance – Repentance and the missing basmala;
  • Responsibility – Sin and repentance; Legal responsibility;
  • Ridda and the case for decriminalization of apostasy – On conversion; Apostasy in Islamic law;
  • Salat – Prayer and the religion of Abraham; Details of prayer; Prayers for the dead;
    • Salat – Details of prayer – Ablution; Prayer times; Prayer style; Does the Middle Prayer take place at Noon?;
    • Salat – Prayers for the dead – Is it legal to offer prayers for believers?; Is there any point in offering prayers for believers after their death?; Funerals; Does God pray for believers?; Can we trust in God's mercy?; Interceding for the dead;
  • Sayyid Qutb – Qutb's life and career; The Writing of Fi zilal; Characteristics of Fi zilal; The Teachings of Fi zilal;
  • Self-referentiality – Self-prediction and classification; Negative statements of the text on the text; The First traces of interpretation (taۥwil); Special linguistic indicators marking truth and authenticity; Asserting scriptural authority over Jewish and Christian scripture;
  • Shiۢa – The Word “shiۢa” in early sources; The Early Shiۢa;
  • Style in the Qurۥan – Word order; Word form; Shift; Selection of words; Rhyme; Wording; Grammaticality; Presentation;
  • Suffering – Types of suffering; Other types of suffering: voluntary and involuntary;
  • Sulayman – Solomon and the animals; Solomon and the Queen of Sheba; Solomon's control of the wind, demons, and jinn; Judgement and the wives of Solomon; The Death of Solomon;
  • Tawhid – Features of tawhid; Historical overview; The Message of tawhid; Polytheism;
  • Translation and the Qurۥan – Translation and ethics; Methods of translation; The Referential versatility of Qurۥanic words; Qurۥanic dictionaries and translation aids; A Brief history of Qurۥanic translations;
  • Wali – issues of identification – Who are the friends of God?; Do the friends of God have special power?; Can Jews and Christians be friends of Muslims?;
  • Wali/Walaya/Wilaya – Walaya; Wilaya;
  • War and violence – The Meccan period; The Medinan period; Medieval and modern conceptions of jihad;
  • Wealth - Qurۥanic attitudes to wealth; Wealth should be striven for; Wealth as an external virtue;
  • Yaۢqub (Jacob) – The Joseph story; The Prohibition of food; Moses and Jacob; Jacob's death and burial;
  • Yunus – Nineveh and the fish; The Virtues of Jonah;

Major articles[edit]

2 pages or longer

Major subarticles[edit]

2 pages or more

Significant articles[edit]

3 paragraphs to 2 pages

Significant subarticles[edit]

3 paragraphs to 2 pages

  • Adam – The Garden of Eden;
  • Akhar – Al-akhira;
  • ۢAli ibn Abi Talib – ۢAli and the exegeses of the Qurۥan – tafsir and taۢۥwil; Ali and the compilation of the Qur'an;
  • Allah – Etymology; Existence of God;
  • Arab or Arabia – Mecca; The Origin of the city; Mecca in modern times;
  • Arabic language – Arabic and the Qurۥan; Development of Arabic in the shadow of the Qurۥan and diglossia; Renaissance of Arabic;
  • Arguments and the Qurۥan – Word order; The Use of reasons; Reasons and the logic of the Qurۥan;
  • Mohammed Arkoun – A Bio-bibliograpical sketch; Arkoun's critical philosophy and epistemology; The Qurۥan in the Arab-Muslim cultural system; Orientalist and social-science approaches to Qurۥanic studies;
  • Aya – Technical definition; Contextual meanings; Major classifications; Structure and parallelism; Ayat al-sadja;
  • Burhan/Bayna/Sultan – Burhan; Bayna; Sultan;
  • Calligraphy and the Qurۥan – The Reform of Arabic script; Development of cursive scripts;
  • Character – Purification of the soul; Change of character – The Truthful character; Change of character – The Irascible character; Change of character – The Forebearing and forgiving character;
  • Christianity – The Punishment of Christians;
  • Creation – The Emanationist view; The Creationist view;
  • Death – Hardships and agonies; The Living and the dead; Intercession for the dead and visiting graveyards; Euthenasia and suicide;
  • Devil – Iblis, the rebel; Satan, the tempter;
  • Eschatology – Al-akhira; Existence of the afterlife; Death; The Signs of the hours;
  • Fate – The Libertarian view; The Middle-of-the-road view; The Philosophical view; The Sufi view;
  • Grace – The Special favour of God; Human response to God's favour; Human grace;
  • Habb or Habba – Habb/habba as a proof of creation and resurrection; Mithqal habba (the weight of a seed): perspective and justice; Habba (grain seed) and sunbula (ear): generosity of Allah's reward;
  • Hadith – The Sunan works of Abu Dawud and others;
  • Happiness – The Qurۥanic view; Miskawayh's view; al-Isfahani's view;
  • Hell – The Topography of hell; The Rhetorical strategy of hell;
  • Historical events and the Qurۥan – History and prophecy; Myth and history; Norms of history;
  • Insan/Nas – The Creation of human beings; The Mission of humanity;
  • ۢIsa – The 'Death' of Jesus; The 'Divinity' of Jesus; The Raising of Jesus; God's promises to Jesus;
  • ۢIshq – Etymology and usage in the hadith; Sura Joseph; Sufi exegesis: the Qurۥan as the scripture of ۢIshq; ۢUshshaq as Allah's chosen people: the Covenant of ۢIshq;
  • Islam – Basic beliefs; The Five Pillars; The Past and the present;
  • Israۥiliyyat – Israelites; Transmitters of Israۥiliyyat;
  • Jerusalem – Jerusalem in the life of Prophet Muhammad;
  • Knowledge – Man's knowledge and God's knowledge; Ignorance (jahal); Knowledge (ۢilm) and faith (iman); Four means to knowledge; The Verse of Light;
  • Language and the Qurۥan – Doctrine of inimitability (of form);
  • Marriage – Creation and pairing; Impediments to marriage; Contracting a marriage; Spousal rights and obligations;
  • Meccan and Medinan suras and the Qurۥan – Time of revelation;
  • Morality – Early Arab virtues; Morality in the Qurۥan; On marriage and eating;
  • Muhammad – Muhammad and other Islamic sources;
  • Musa – Midian; Revelation of the Torah;
  • Nafs – Nafs and ruh; Nafs and qalb; The Nafs as self; Nafs and jalis; Nafs, ruh and psychology;
  • Nahda – Wider responses to conolonialism and modernity;
  • Natural world and the Qurۥan – The Example of water and light; Trees;
  • Said Nursi – Nursi's writings;
  • Origins, organization and influences on the Qurۥan – The Classical Western attitude towards the origin of Islam; Modern period; Critique of the study of origin;
  • Paradise – Eschatological paradise; Eschatological paradise – The Topography of Paradise; Eschatological paradise – The Virgins of Paradise (Houris);
  • Philosophy and the Qurۥan – The Varieties of Islamic philosophy; The Role of the Qurۥan in Islamic philosophy;
  • Prophecy – Prophecy in Islamic philosophy;
  • Responsibility – Sin and repentance;
  • Ridda and the case for decriminalization of apostasy – Apostasy in Islamic law;
  • Salat – Prayer and the religion of Abraham; Details of prayer – Prayer times; Details of prayer – Prayer style; Prayers for the dead – Is it legal to offer prayers for believers? Prayers for the dead – Is there any point in offering prayers for believers after their death?
  • Sayyid Qutb – Qutb's life and career; The Writing of Fi zilal; Characteristics of Fi zilal;
  • Self-referentiality - Asserting scriptural authority over Jewish and Christian scripture;
  • Shiۢa – The Word “shiۢa” in early sources;
  • Suffering – Types of suffering; Other types of suffering: voluntary and involuntary;
  • Tawhid – Features of tawhid; Historical overview; The Message of tawhid; Polytheism;
  • Translation and the Qurۥan – Translation and ethics; Methods of translation; Qurۥanic dictionaries and translation aids; A Brief history of Qurۥanic translations – European translations; A Brief history of Qurۥanic translations – English translations;
  • Wali – issues of identification – Do the friends of God have special power?;
  • Wali/Walaya/Wilaya – Walaya; Wilaya;
  • War and violence – The Meccan period;
  • Wealth - Wealth should be striven for; Wealth as an external virtue;
  • Yaۢqub (Jacob) – The Joseph story;

Minor articles[edit]

one or two paragraphs

Minor subarticles[edit]

one or two paragraphs

  • Adam – The creation of Adam; Adam's repentance; Adam's death;
  • Akhar – Akhir;
  • ۢAli ibn Abi Talib – References in the Qurۥan;
  • Allah – The Concept of God in the Qurۥan;
  • Arab or Arabia – The Kaۢba; The Hajj; Mecca's physical structure; Economic life; Mecca in modern times;
  • Arabic language – Middle Arabic; Factors of change in Classical Arabic; Arabic dialects;
  • Arguments and the Qurۥan – Is the Qurۥan a code?;
  • Aya – Aya numbering; Aya length; Content and subject matter; Muhkamat and mtashabihat; Punctuation of the verse; Preferred interpretations of the verse; General interpretations; Contextual meanings of mutashabihat; English equivalents of mutashabihat;
  • Calligraphy and the Qurۥan – Early calligraphic developments;
  • Character – Change of character – The Proud character; Change of character - The Patient character; Change of character - The Virtuous character;
  • Christianity – Jesus as God; The Trinity;
  • Death – The Soul; Do the dead hear?; Crying at graves; Talking of the dead;
  • Eschatology – The Concept of the hereafter in the Islamic tradition; The Signs of the hours;
  • Fate – Theological views; The Fatalistic view; The Philosophical view; The Sufi view;
  • Habb or Habba – Care and mercy; Mithqal habba (the weight of a seed): perspective and justice; Habba (grain seed) and sunbula (ear): generosity of Allah's reward;
  • Happiness – Al-Ghazali's view;
  • Hell – The Inhabitants of hell; The Chronology of hell;
  • Ibrahim – Birth and early life; The Holy Land; Sacrifice; Ten words and the resurrection of the birds; Death and burial;
  • Insan/Nas – The Psychological nature of the human; The Mission of humanity;
  • Irada – The Angels and the devils; Human action;
  • ۢIsa – The Islamic view of the fate of Jesus; The Detail of the Qurۥanic account; The Significance of Jesus and the Day of Judgment;
  • Israۥiliyyat – Textual authority of Israۥiliyyat;
  • Knowledge – The Innate knowledge of God; The Soul's knowledge of God; Al-Ghazali's view;
  • Money – Interest; Charity; Charity and punishment; Inheritance and wills; Debts; Loans; Using wealth; The Poor; Hoarding; Extravagance; Miserliness; Moderation in giving; Bribery; Contentment; Envy; The Best charity; On begging; Business conduct;
  • Morality – Goodness (khayr) and righteousness (hirr); Justice and responsibility; The Work ethic;
  • Musa – Birth of Moses; Moses and Pharaoh; Holy Land; Death of Moses;
  • Nafs – Nafs and passion; Nafs and jalis; Nafs, ruh and psychology;
  • Origins, organization and influences on the Qurۥan – Western orientalist discourse; Modern period; Critique of the study of origin;
  • Paradise – Adam's paradise; Eschatological paradise – The Pleasures of Paradise; Eschatological paradise – Interaction between God and man in Pardise;
  • Philosophy and the Qurۥan – The Islamic sciences; Political philosophy; The Soul; Logic; Philosophy's relationship with the Qurۥan; The Effect of philosophy on the Qurۥan;
  • Prophecy – The Angel Gabriel; The Revelation of the Qurۥan; The Path of Revelation is protected against mistakes; How the Qurۥan was revealed;
  • Qurۥan – The Qurۥanic message; The Themes of the Qurۥan;
  • Qurۥanic studies – Meccan and Medinan revelations; Inimitability of the Qurۥan; Consonance in the Qurۥan; Argumentation in the Qurۥan; Reasons for revelation; Abrogating and abrogated; Clear and ambiguous; Parables and similitudes; The Seven modes;
  • Repentance – Repentance and the missing basmala;
  • Responsibility – Legal responsibility;
  • Ridda and the case for decriminalization of apostasy – On conversion;
  • Salat – Details of prayer – Ablution; Details of prayer – Does the Middle Prayer take place at noon? Prayers for the dead – Funerals; Prayers for the dead – Does God pray for believers?; Prayers for the dead – Can we trust in God's mercy?; Prayers for the dead – Interceding for the dead;
  • Sayyid Qutb – The Teachings of Fi zilal;
  • Self-referentiality – Self-prediction and classification; Negative statements of the text on the text; The First traces of interpretation (taۥwil); Special linguistic indicators marking truth and authenticity;
  • Style in the Qurۥan – Word order; Word form; Shift; Selection of words; Rhyme; Wording; Grammaticality; Presentation;
  • Sulayman – Solomon and the animals; Solomon and the Queen of Sheba; Solomon's control of the wind, demons, and jinn; Judgement and the wives of Solomon; The Death of Solomon;
  • Wali – issues of identification – Who are the friends of God?;
  • Wealth - Qurۥanic attitudes to wealth;
  • Yaۢqub (Jacob) – The Prohibition of food; Moses and Jacob; Jacob's death and burial;
  • Yunus – Nineveh and the fish; The Virtues of Jonah;

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