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ISL181/481 Research Skills Guide: Use Journal Databases

ISL181 Sirah (Life of Prophet Muhammad) and ISL481 Philosophy of Prophet Muhammad's Life (Sirah)

Why should you use journal databases?

Journal databases:

  • Are the best source of academic or scholarly information for your assessments
  • help you locate peer reviewed articles
  • Are subject specific, so that you get more relevant results
  • Have many options for refining results

You can find the Library's databases on the Journal Databases page.

Databases are grouped into subject areas. The Theology & Islamic Studies databases will be particularly useful for your study.

Try it now

Go to the JSTOR database, and try typing in  Prophet Muhammad AND Medina (you may need to sign in first with your CSU username and password).

  • Did you get less results than Primo Search?  Being a humanities database, they should be more relevant to your topic.
  • Look at the HTML and PDF links to access the full text of the article.
  • If you cannot find the full text click on the Find it button to check if the article is available elsewhere.

Searching in a database

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