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Mohamed Taher. Quantitative study of Islamic literature. New Delhi, M D Publications, 1993.
About the book: Quantity or quality of a literature is but one way of understanding any field. If quality of literature, per se, is essential to make value judgements, quantifying that data is just prerequisite. This work, is a result of in-depth research, enlarges our knowledge in the field of Islamic studies. The study of Islam, as a religion, its theory and its living examples, and such other components are dealt here with, in the the time and language framework -- covering the literature in English, published in the 1970s, and as covered by Index Islamicus.
This book is the first attempt to analyse the Islamics in its totality. The quantification technique used here is called Bibliometrics. And the work in hand is also the first attempt to apply the Bibliometric method to the study of Islamic literature. It is on this basis that the author hoped his book to be of some significance to those concerned with area studies, orientalism, history, culture, comparative religion, and Islam.
Contents of the book:
Growth patterns of literature of Islamic studies
Core journals of Islamic studies: Selection and comparative analysis
Subject dispersion of journals of Islamic studies
Geographical dispersion of journals of Islamic studies
Summary, implications & suggestions for further research
Appendices
Bibliography
Indexes
Place Index
Journal index
Key word subject index
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