Getting interdisciplinary with Art History: Islamic Studies

In navigating to one of my usual favorites, Oxford Art Online (which now includes the Grove Art Dictionary) I happened to notice in the line-up of database titles a new entry:

Oxford Islamic Studies

The database description reads:

"Encompassing over 3,000 A-Z reference entries, chapters from scholarly and introductory works, Qur'anic materials, primary sources, images, and timelines, Oxford Islamic Studies Online offers a multi-layered reference experience. Users can search and browse by era, topic, and geographic region, filter to view a specific type of content, and make use of a variety of search forms to set criteria for locating biographical entries, bibliographic references, primary sources, terms in the Qur'an and Concordance, and much more. Articles from the Oxford Encyclopedia of the Islamic World, The Oxford Encylopedia of the Modern Islamic World, The Islamic World: Past and Present, and the Oxford Dictionary of Islam are included."

For students in Art History 183, this should be a very good source for topic overviews, timelines, and bibliographies.