Brill Major Reference Works

Africa Yearbook Online
The Africa Yearbook covers major domestic political developments, the foreign policy and socio-economic trends in sub-Sahara Africa — all related to developments in one calendar year.

The Brill Dictionary of Religion Online
The new and impressively comprehensive Brill Dictionary of Religion addresses religion as an element of daily life and public discourse. It is unusual in that it not only addresses the different theologies and doctrinal declarations of the official institutionalized religions but it also gives equal weight and consideration to a multiplicity of other religious phenomena.

Index Islamicus Online
Index Islamicus is THE international classified bibliography of publications in European languages on all aspects of Islam and the Muslim world.

Jacoby Online
Jacoby Online brings together online Felix Jacoby's monumental Fragmente der Griechischen Historiker and Brill's New Jacoby, a completely new edition of the great work with abundant new commentaries in English by contemporary scholars, as well as facing English translations of the Greek texts, in a fully searchable and indexed online format. Beginning in March 2007 and proceeding in twice — yearly updates at the rate of about 60 historians per update (approximate equivalent of 1,000 printed pages), each of Jacoby's 856 entries, comprising a total of more than 12,000.

Encyclopedia of Women & Islamic Cultures Online
A unique collaboration of over 1000 scholars from around the world, the Encyclopedia of Women & Islamic Cultures crosses history, geographic borders and disciplines to create a ground-breaking reference work reflecting the very latest research on gender studies and the Islamic world. No other reference work offers this scale of contributions or depth and breadth of coverage. Encyclopedia of Women & Islamic Cultures is set to become an essential reference work for students and researchers in the fields of gender studies, Middle Eastern and Islamic studies, as well as scholars of religion, history, politics, anthropology, geography and related disciplines.

Encyclopaedia of Judaism Online
This new edition of the prize-winning Encyclopaedia of Judaism is nearly double the size of the original three-volume edition. It features 52 new entries and includes the two separately published supplementary volumes and bibliographic updates.