[posted to MELANET-L 14 December 2009 by A. Riedlmayer]
Although one might not guess from its LC catalog record, recent issues of the Kyoto Bulletin of Islamic Area Studies (ISSN: 1881-8323), published twice a year since 2007, are largely in English–and full text of all articles and reviews in current and past issues is available and searchable online at no charge through the Kyoto University Research Information Repository.
You can check out the current issue, vol. 3 no. 1 (July 2009)–it’s a theme issue: “Nakba after Sixty Years: Memories and Histories in Palestine and East Asia,” at http://repository.kulib.kyoto-u.ac.jp/dspace/bulletin/kias
Clicking on the article title in the TOC will bring up a citation page, which gives options to download the text in .pdf or .html format.
Past issues of the Kyoto Bulletin of Islamic Area Studies have featured articles on a wide variety of subjects. A few randomly chosen examples:
- Data on Zawiyas in Contemporary Zanzibar
- The Invocation of Saints and/or Spirits by the Sufis and the Shamans: About the Munajat Literary Genre in Central Asia
- The Influence of the Ottoman Print Media in Japan: The Linkage of Intellectuals in the Eurasian World
- Democratization and Islamic Politics: A Study on the Wasat Party in Egypt
- The Islamization of the Economy and the Development of Islamic Banking in Pakistan
- Comparative Philosophy and Cross-cultural Dialogue in the Bosnian Context
If you’re tracking free online journals, consider adding this title to your library’s OPAC.
Season’s greetings and a happy new year to all,
Andras J. Riedlmayer, Bibliographer
Aga Khan Program for Islamic Architecture Fine Arts Library – Harvard University
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