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Koran in English (Shakir, M.H., translator)
The Holy Qur'an, translated by M.H. Shakir and published by Tahrike Tarsile Qur'an, Inc., in 1983. Like all the versions of this text derived from the Online Book Initiative, it may not be free from transcription errors.

Left Index

Database of literature on the political left. Emphasis on politically and culturally engaged scholarship inside and outside academia; also includes significant but little-known sources of news and ideas. Coverage begins in 1982 and includes religion.

LGBT Life with Full Text
LGBT Life with Full Text indexes and provides full text for scholarly and popular publications on lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender topics, with coverage from 1953 to the present.

LGBT Studies in Video
LGBT Studies in Video is a streaming video collection of documentaries, interviews, archival footage, and feature films on LGBT history, culture, politics, social movements, and religion.

Liberator (1831-1865)
The most influential newspaper in the antebellum, antislavery crusade in the United States, published in Boston, Massachusetts, by William Lloyd Garrison.

Library Browser Extensions
LibKey Nomad and Lean Library browser extensions provide seamless access to Harvard Library subscriptions from anywhere on the web.

Literature Online
Literature Online (Lion) includes a collection of over 360,000 works of historic and contemporary English and American poetry, drama, and prose with complementary reference sources and criticism. Content touching on religious themes is included.

Loeb Classical Library
Database consists of more than 500 original texts of Greek and Latin literature with English translations. The content is fully searchable and includes every volume from the print series. New and revised volumes are uploaded regularly.

LOGEION
Logeion is an open-access database of Latin and Ancient Greek dictionaries. Provides simultaneous lookup of entries in the many reference works that make up the Perseus Classical collection.

Los Angeles Times (1881-1986)
A full-text database containing digitized images of the original format of the Los Angeles Times (1881-1986), with content including articles, photos, and advertisements. All text within the database is searchable.

Luthers Werke
Electronic version of the Weimar Edition ( Weimarer Ausgabe), the critical collected edition of Martin Luther’s writings and recorded statements in Latin and German.

Merriam-Webster unabridged
A comprehensive, unabridged dictionary of contemporary American English descended from Noah Webster’s 1828 dictionary and regularly updated.

Missionary Databases
List of databases with digital access to missionary records at non-Harvard repositories. For suggestions on how to find more missionary records, contact a Research Librarian at HDS Library.

MLA International Bibliography
Indexes journal articles, monographs, working papers, proceedings, and bibliographies pertaining to literature, language, linguistics, and folklore, and includes coverage from 1920s to the present.

Music Index Online
The Music Index Online provides citations to articles, book and record reviews, first performances, and obituaries from over 690 international music periodicals covering a wide range of historical, musicological, and ethnomusicological topics.Dates: 1976-

Music Online: Garland Encyclopedia of World Music

Encyclopedic reference source for world music. Entries by expert contributors include descriptions of religious and ritual music, audio examples, illustrations, song texts and score examples, charts and maps.

Music Periodicals Database
Use to find contemporary articles from international scholarly and popular music periodicals. All aspects of music are covered including topics in the field of religion such as church music, gospel, Buddhist chants and ethnomusicology.

Muslims in Russia Online
This collection of 11 Russian language works by and about Muslims in Russia introduces the varied and poorly explored Russian Muslim population during the years 1861-1918, a later period of the Russian Empire.

Nation Archive
The Nation Archive is a searchable online archive of the journal The Nation beginning with its first issue in 1865 to the present. News, politics and culture, including topics on religion, are covered.

New Catholic Encyclopedia
The New Catholic Encyclopedia is a reference work on Catholicism. It also covers religions, traditions, movements, and historical figures that shape Catholicism.

New Pauly

Brill’s New Pauly is the English edition of Der Neue Pauly, an encyclopedia of the ancient world and the classical tradition covering Greco-Roman antiquity and its later reception.

New Testament Abstracts
NTA is a bibliographic database of scholarship on the New Testament and its historical context, including journal articles, books, and essays in multiple languages and from many countries.

New Testament Gateway
Academic internet resources on the New Testament, hosted by Logos Bible Software and edited by Mark Goodacre.

New York Times (1851-2006)
This database contains all issues of the New York Times, 1851-2006, in full text, full image forms, including news, illustrations, editorial matter, and advertising.

New York Tribune (1841-1922)
A full-text database containing digitized images of the New-York Tribune (1841-1922), with content including articles, photos, and advertisements. All text within the database is searchable.

Newspaper Archive
NewspaperARCHIVE.com, the largest historical newspaper database online, contains tens of millions of newspaper pages from 1607 to present. Every newspaper in the archive is fully searchable by keyword and date, making it easy for you to quickly explore...

Nexis Uni
Nexis Uni features more than 15,000 news, business and legal sources from LexisNexis. Use this to find news stories and legal cases related to religion.

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