User's Guide & Site Help

5.3. Main Search

You can get to the Main Search page from the Search tab in the Navigation bar. Compared with Quick Search, the Main Search page offers more control over the results and range of your search. The variety of fields will help you to optimize and tailor results.

The fields that can be searched include:

Entry/Chapter Title. The title is the name of the piece of content. This refers to the title of all content types, from articles to images.
Full Text
Entry Author
Branch of Islam
Country of Activity
Region of Activity
Era
Topic
Archived articles from the Encyclopedia of the Modern Islamic World (any entry that has been updated for inclusion in the Oxford Encyclopedia of the Islamic World is archived, but this option will add archived entries from this earlier work to your search).