Encyclopedias about Muslim Civilizations

This book about books highlights the growing – and to many the hidden – range of reference works dealing with Muslim civilisation. For many readers in English‐speaking contexts, works like those edited by John Esposito (such as The Islamic World: Past and Present (Esposito et al., 2004) and the earlier Oxford Encyclopedia of the Modern Islamic World (Esposito, 1995) may already be familiar. There are many more, often multi‐volume projects, that extend back over many years, with more increasingly available online. Yet knowing this can disguise just how much there is, above all in Arabic...