From the library home page, select Advanced Search. Using Advanced Search helps streamline your results. Use the different boxes to separate out the ideas that make up your topic (e.g., "Islam OR Muslim" in one box, and "Youth" in a separate one).
Use connectors (aka Boolean logic): Most databases and search engines use Boolean logic to make connections between different words in your search. A few of the most popular Boolean operators include:
AND narrows your search, e.g. Muslim AND Youth
OR expands your search by using similar terms (synonyms), e.g. Muslim OR Islam
Quotation marks tell the database to search for an exact phrase (as opposed to searching individual words separately), e.g. "Charter of Rights"
Asterisks (*) allow you to shorten a word to its root, allowing you to search for the same word with different endings. E.g., educat* searches for educate, educational, educator, education - all at once.
Centennial College has access to thousands of scholarly journals, including many that focus on Islam and Muslim people. Check out some of the journals below, or click on the link above to access additional journals.
Journal of Islamic and Muslim Studies Peer Reviewed
Description: Multidisciplinary journal of Islamic studies. Sponsored by the North American Association of Islamic and Muslim Studies (NAAIMS), JIMS is dedicated to expanding a repertoire of scholarship on Muslim societies and Islam as a religion and civilization. Its purpose is to forward the field of Islamic and Muslim studies more broadly, and to make contributions to its represented disciplines in advancing theories, epistemologies, pedagogies, and methods.
Journal of Arab & Muslim Media Research Peer Reviewed
Description: The Journal of Arab and Muslim Media Research is a peer-reviewed academic publication dedicated to the study of communication, culture and society in the Arab and Muslim world. It aims to lead the debate about the rapid changes in media and society in that part of the world. This journal is also interested in diasporic media like satellite TV, radio and new media especially in Europe and North America.
Description: ISJ is an interdisciplinary and multi-lingual academic journal that encourages submissions that theorizes the historical, political, economic, and cultural phenomenon of Islamophobia in relation to the construction, representation, and articulation of “Otherness.” ISJ is an open scholarly exchange, exploring new approaches, methodologies, and contemporary issues.
Description: Official journal of the Institute of Muslim Minority Affairs (IMMA). Publishes research on Muslim communities in non-Muslim societies and the minority condition, also including non-Muslim minorities living in Muslim societies.
Description: JMPCS seeks original academic research examining the broad scope of Muslim philanthropy and civil society. This peer reviewed online academic journal publishes research related to Muslim nonprofit, philanthropic and voluntary action.
Description:Aims to encourage & promote the study of the Qur'an from a wide range of scholarly perspectives, reflecting on the diversity of approaches characteristic of this field of scholarship.