diff --git a/CMakeLists.txt b/CMakeLists.txt
index 14a1c15c8..e5ecd1f62 100644
--- a/CMakeLists.txt
+++ b/CMakeLists.txt
@@ -829,3 +829,7 @@ if (DOXYGEN_FOUND)
         WORKING_DIRECTORY ${OpenMW_BINARY_DIR}
         COMMENT "Generating documentation for the github-pages at ${DOXYGEN_PAGES_OUTPUT_DIR}" VERBATIM)
 endif ()
+
+
+OPTION(WANT_DOCS        "Build documentation." OFF )
+ADD_SUBDIRECTORY(docs)
diff --git a/cmake/FindSphinx.cmake b/cmake/FindSphinx.cmake
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..4607f7806
--- /dev/null
+++ b/cmake/FindSphinx.cmake
@@ -0,0 +1,145 @@
+# - This module looks for Sphinx
+# Find the Sphinx documentation generator
+#
+# This modules defines
+#  SPHINX_EXECUTABLE
+#  SPHINX_FOUND
+
+find_program(SPHINX_EXECUTABLE
+  NAMES sphinx-build
+  PATHS
+    /usr/bin
+    /usr/local/bin
+    /opt/local/bin
+  DOC "Sphinx documentation generator"
+)
+
+if( NOT SPHINX_EXECUTABLE )
+  set(_Python_VERSIONS
+    2.7 2.6 2.5 2.4 2.3 2.2 2.1 2.0 1.6 1.5
+  )
+
+  foreach( _version ${_Python_VERSIONS} )
+    set( _sphinx_NAMES sphinx-build-${_version} )
+
+    find_program( SPHINX_EXECUTABLE
+      NAMES ${_sphinx_NAMES}
+      PATHS
+        /usr/bin
+        /usr/local/bin
+        /opt/loca/bin
+      DOC "Sphinx documentation generator"
+    )
+  endforeach()
+endif()
+
+include(FindPackageHandleStandardArgs)
+
+find_package_handle_standard_args(Sphinx DEFAULT_MSG
+  SPHINX_EXECUTABLE
+)
+
+
+option( SPHINX_HTML_OUTPUT "Build a single HTML with the whole content." ON )
+option( SPHINX_DIRHTML_OUTPUT "Build HTML pages, but with a single directory per document." OFF )
+option( SPHINX_HTMLHELP_OUTPUT "Build HTML pages with additional information for building a documentation collection in htmlhelp." OFF )
+option( SPHINX_QTHELP_OUTPUT "Build HTML pages with additional information for building a documentation collection in qthelp." OFF )
+option( SPHINX_DEVHELP_OUTPUT "Build HTML pages with additional information for building a documentation collection in devhelp." OFF )
+option( SPHINX_EPUB_OUTPUT "Build HTML pages with additional information for building a documentation collection in epub." OFF )
+option( SPHINX_LATEX_OUTPUT "Build LaTeX sources that can be compiled to a PDF document using pdflatex." OFF )
+option( SPHINX_MAN_OUTPUT "Build manual pages in groff format for UNIX systems." OFF )
+option( SPHINX_TEXT_OUTPUT "Build plain text files." OFF )
+
+
+mark_as_advanced(
+  SPHINX_EXECUTABLE
+  SPHINX_HTML_OUTPUT
+  SPHINX_DIRHTML_OUTPUT
+  SPHINX_HTMLHELP_OUTPUT
+  SPHINX_QTHELP_OUTPUT
+  SPHINX_DEVHELP_OUTPUT
+  SPHINX_EPUB_OUTPUT
+  SPHINX_LATEX_OUTPUT
+  SPHINX_MAN_OUTPUT
+  SPHINX_TEXT_OUTPUT
+)
+
+function( Sphinx_add_target target_name builder conf source destination )
+  add_custom_target( ${target_name} ALL
+    COMMAND ${SPHINX_EXECUTABLE} -b ${builder}
+    -c ${conf}
+    ${source}
+    ${destination}
+    COMMENT "Generating sphinx documentation: ${builder}"
+    )
+
+  set_property(
+    DIRECTORY APPEND PROPERTY
+    ADDITIONAL_MAKE_CLEAN_FILES
+    ${destination}
+    )
+endfunction()
+
+# Target dependencies can be optionally listed at the end.
+function( Sphinx_add_targets target_base_name conf source base_destination )
+
+  set( _dependencies )
+
+  foreach( arg IN LISTS ARGN )
+    set( _dependencies ${_dependencies} ${arg} )
+  endforeach()
+
+  if( ${SPHINX_HTML_OUTPUT} )
+    Sphinx_add_target( ${target_base_name}_html html ${conf} ${source} ${base_destination}/html )
+
+    add_dependencies( ${target_base_name}_html ${_dependencies} )
+  endif()
+
+  if( ${SPHINX_DIRHTML_OUTPUT} )
+    Sphinx_add_target( ${target_base_name}_dirhtml dirhtml ${conf} ${source} ${base_destination}/dirhtml )
+
+    add_dependencies( ${target_base_name}_dirhtml ${_dependencies} )
+  endif()
+
+  if( ${SPHINX_QTHELP_OUTPUT} )
+    Sphinx_add_target( ${target_base_name}_qthelp qthelp ${conf} ${source} ${base_destination}/qthelp )
+
+    add_dependencies( ${target_base_name}_qthelp ${_dependencies} )
+  endif()
+
+  if( ${SPHINX_DEVHELP_OUTPUT} )
+    Sphinx_add_target( ${target_base_name}_devhelp devhelp ${conf} ${source} ${base_destination}/devhelp )
+
+    add_dependencies( ${target_base_name}_devhelp ${_dependencies} )
+  endif()
+
+  if( ${SPHINX_EPUB_OUTPUT} )
+    Sphinx_add_target( ${target_base_name}_epub epub ${conf} ${source} ${base_destination}/epub )
+
+    add_dependencies( ${target_base_name}_epub ${_dependencies} )
+  endif()
+
+  if( ${SPHINX_LATEX_OUTPUT} )
+    Sphinx_add_target( ${target_base_name}_latex latex ${conf} ${source} ${base_destination}/latex )
+
+    add_dependencies( ${target_base_name}_latex ${_dependencies} )
+  endif()
+
+  if( ${SPHINX_MAN_OUTPUT} )
+    Sphinx_add_target( ${target_base_name}_man man ${conf} ${source} ${base_destination}/man )
+
+    add_dependencies( ${target_base_name}_man ${_dependencies} )
+  endif()
+
+  if( ${SPHINX_TEXT_OUTPUT} )
+    Sphinx_add_target( ${target_base_name}_text text ${conf} ${source} ${base_destination}/text )
+
+    add_dependencies( ${target_base_name}_text ${_dependencies} )
+  endif()
+
+  if( ${BUILD_TESTING} )
+    sphinx_add_target( ${target_base_name}_linkcheck linkcheck ${conf} ${source} ${base_destination}/linkcheck )
+
+    add_dependencies( ${target_base_name}_linkcheck ${_dependencies} )
+  endif()
+endfunction()
diff --git a/docs/CMakeLists.txt b/docs/CMakeLists.txt
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..c63d6dc18
--- /dev/null
+++ b/docs/CMakeLists.txt
@@ -0,0 +1,27 @@
+IF( WANT_DOCS )
+  # Builds the documentation.
+  FIND_PACKAGE( Sphinx REQUIRED )
+  FIND_PACKAGE( Doxygen REQUIRED )
+
+  SET( SPHINX_SOURCE_DIR ${CMAKE_SOURCE_DIR}/docs/sphinx )
+  SET( DOCUMENTATION_DIR ${OpenMW_BINARY_DIR}/docs )
+
+  FILE(MAKE_DIRECTORY ${DOCUMENTATION_DIR}/_static)
+  FILE(MAKE_DIRECTORY ${DOCUMENTATION_DIR}/_templates)
+
+  CONFIGURE_FILE(
+    ${SPHINX_SOURCE_DIR}/source/conf.py.in
+    ${DOCUMENTATION_DIR}/conf.py
+    @ONLY)
+
+  CONFIGURE_FILE(
+    ${SPHINX_SOURCE_DIR}/run_sphinx_build.sh.in
+    ${DOCUMENTATION_DIR}/run_sphinx_build.sh
+    @ONLY)
+
+  IF(UNIX)
+    EXECUTE_PROCESS(COMMAND chmod +x ${DOCUMENTATION_DIR}/run_sphinx_build.sh OUTPUT_QUIET)
+    EXECUTE_PROCESS(COMMAND ${DOCUMENTATION_DIR}/run_sphinx_build.sh OUTPUT_QUIET)
+  ENDIF(UNIX)
+
+ENDIF()
diff --git a/docs/sphinx/run_sphinx_build.sh.in b/docs/sphinx/run_sphinx_build.sh.in
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..ddd4dc2bb
--- /dev/null
+++ b/docs/sphinx/run_sphinx_build.sh.in
@@ -0,0 +1,7 @@
+#!/bin/bash
+echo "Creating Sphinx documentation in: @SPHINX_DESTINATION@"
+
+LD_LIBRARY_PATH="@CMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX@/lib:$LD_LIBRARY_PATH"
+
+@SPHINX_EXECUTABLE@ -b html -c @CMAKE_CURRENT_BINARY_DIR@/ @SPHINX_SOURCE_DIR@/source @DOCUMENTATION_DIR@/html
+@SPHINX_EXECUTABLE@ -b man -c @CMAKE_CURRENT_BINARY_DIR@/ @SPHINX_SOURCE_DIR@/source @DOCUMENTATION_DIR@/man
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/docs/sphinx/source/conf.py.in b/docs/sphinx/source/conf.py.in
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..218ef8b6d
--- /dev/null
+++ b/docs/sphinx/source/conf.py.in
@@ -0,0 +1,275 @@
+# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
+#
+# OpenMW documentation build configuration file, created by
+# sphinx-quickstart on Wed May 14 15:16:35 2014.
+#
+# This file is execfile()d with the current directory set to its
+# containing dir.
+#
+# Note that not all possible configuration values are present in this
+# autogenerated file.
+#
+# All configuration values have a default; values that are commented out
+# serve to show the default.
+
+import sys
+import os
+
+# If extensions (or modules to document with autodoc) are in another directory,
+# add these directories to sys.path here. If the directory is relative to the
+# documentation root, use os.path.abspath to make it absolute, like shown here.
+sys.path.insert(0, os.path.abspath('@CMAKE_SOURCE_DIR@'))
+
+# -- General configuration ------------------------------------------------
+
+# If your documentation needs a minimal Sphinx version, state it here.
+#needs_sphinx = '1.0'
+
+# Add any Sphinx extension module names here, as strings. They can be
+# extensions coming with Sphinx (named 'sphinx.ext.*') or your custom
+# ones.
+extensions = [
+    'sphinx.ext.autodoc',
+    'sphinx.ext.doctest',
+    'sphinx.ext.todo',
+    'sphinx.ext.coverage',
+    'sphinx.ext.viewcode',
+    'breathe',
+]
+
+# Where breathe can find the source files
+breathe_projects_source = {
+    "openmw": ("@CMAKE_SOURCE_DIR@/apps/openmw", ["engine.hpp",
+    "mwbase/dialoguemanager.hpp", "mwbase/environment.hpp",
+    "mwbase/inputmanager.hpp", "mwbase/journal.hpp", "mwbase/mechanicsmanager.hpp",
+    "mwbase/scriptmanager.hpp", "mwbase/soundmanager.hpp", "mwbase/statemanager.hpp",
+    "mwbase/windowmanager.hpp", "mwbase/world.hpp"])
+    }
+
+# Add any paths that contain templates here, relative to this directory.
+templates_path = ['_templates']
+
+# The suffix of source filenames.
+source_suffix = '.rst'
+
+# The encoding of source files.
+#source_encoding = 'utf-8-sig'
+
+# The master toctree document.
+master_doc = 'index'
+
+# General information about the project.
+project = u'OpenMW'
+copyright = u'2016, OpenMW Team'
+
+# The version info for the project you're documenting, acts as replacement for
+# |version| and |release|, also used in various other places throughout the
+# built documents.
+#
+# The short X.Y version.
+version = '@OPENMW_VERSION@'
+# The full version, including alpha/beta/rc tags.
+release = '@OPENMW_VERSION@'
+
+# The language for content autogenerated by Sphinx. Refer to documentation
+# for a list of supported languages.
+#language = None
+
+# There are two options for replacing |today|: either, you set today to some
+# non-false value, then it is used:
+#today = ''
+# Else, today_fmt is used as the format for a strftime call.
+#today_fmt = '%B %d, %Y'
+
+# List of patterns, relative to source directory, that match files and
+# directories to ignore when looking for source files.
+exclude_patterns = []
+
+# The reST default role (used for this markup: `text`) to use for all
+# documents.
+#default_role = None
+
+# If true, '()' will be appended to :func: etc. cross-reference text.
+#add_function_parentheses = True
+
+# If true, the current module name will be prepended to all description
+# unit titles (such as .. function::).
+#add_module_names = True
+
+# If true, sectionauthor and moduleauthor directives will be shown in the
+# output. They are ignored by default.
+#show_authors = False
+
+# The name of the Pygments (syntax highlighting) style to use.
+pygments_style = 'sphinx'
+
+# A list of ignored prefixes for module index sorting.
+#modindex_common_prefix = []
+
+# If true, keep warnings as "system message" paragraphs in the built documents.
+#keep_warnings = False
+
+primary_domain = 'c'
+
+# -- Options for HTML output ----------------------------------------------
+
+# The theme to use for HTML and HTML Help pages.  See the documentation for
+# a list of builtin themes.
+html_theme = 'default'
+
+# Theme options are theme-specific and customize the look and feel of a theme
+# further.  For a list of options available for each theme, see the
+# documentation.
+#html_theme_options = {}
+
+# Add any paths that contain custom themes here, relative to this directory.
+#html_theme_path = []
+
+# The name for this set of Sphinx documents.  If None, it defaults to
+# "<project> v<release> documentation".
+#html_title = None
+
+# A shorter title for the navigation bar.  Default is the same as html_title.
+#html_short_title = None
+
+# The name of an image file (relative to this directory) to place at the top
+# of the sidebar.
+#html_logo = None
+
+# The name of an image file (within the static path) to use as favicon of the
+# docs.  This file should be a Windows icon file (.ico) being 16x16 or 32x32
+# pixels large.
+#html_favicon = None
+
+# Add any paths that contain custom static files (such as style sheets) here,
+# relative to this directory. They are copied after the builtin static files,
+# so a file named "default.css" will overwrite the builtin "default.css".
+html_static_path = ['_static']
+
+# Add any extra paths that contain custom files (such as robots.txt or
+# .htaccess) here, relative to this directory. These files are copied
+# directly to the root of the documentation.
+#html_extra_path = []
+
+# If not '', a 'Last updated on:' timestamp is inserted at every page bottom,
+# using the given strftime format.
+#html_last_updated_fmt = '%b %d, %Y'
+
+# If true, SmartyPants will be used to convert quotes and dashes to
+# typographically correct entities.
+#html_use_smartypants = True
+
+# Custom sidebar templates, maps document names to template names.
+#html_sidebars = {}
+
+# Additional templates that should be rendered to pages, maps page names to
+# template names.
+#html_additional_pages = {}
+
+# If false, no module index is generated.
+#html_domain_indices = True
+
+# If false, no index is generated.
+#html_use_index = True
+
+# If true, the index is split into individual pages for each letter.
+#html_split_index = False
+
+# If true, links to the reST sources are added to the pages.
+#html_show_sourcelink = True
+
+# If true, "Created using Sphinx" is shown in the HTML footer. Default is True.
+#html_show_sphinx = True
+
+# If true, "(C) Copyright ..." is shown in the HTML footer. Default is True.
+#html_show_copyright = True
+
+# If true, an OpenSearch description file will be output, and all pages will
+# contain a <link> tag referring to it.  The value of this option must be the
+# base URL from which the finished HTML is served.
+#html_use_opensearch = ''
+
+# This is the file name suffix for HTML files (e.g. ".xhtml").
+#html_file_suffix = None
+
+# Output file base name for HTML help builder.
+htmlhelp_basename = 'OpenMWdoc'
+
+
+# -- Options for LaTeX output ---------------------------------------------
+
+latex_elements = {
+# The paper size ('letterpaper' or 'a4paper').
+#'papersize': 'letterpaper',
+
+# The font size ('10pt', '11pt' or '12pt').
+#'pointsize': '10pt',
+
+# Additional stuff for the LaTeX preamble.
+#'preamble': '',
+}
+
+# Grouping the document tree into LaTeX files. List of tuples
+# (source start file, target name, title,
+#  author, documentclass [howto, manual, or own class]).
+latex_documents = [
+  ('index', 'OpenMW.tex', u'OpenMW Documentation',
+   u'Bret Curtis', 'manual'),
+]
+
+# The name of an image file (relative to this directory) to place at the top of
+# the title page.
+#latex_logo = None
+
+# For "manual" documents, if this is true, then toplevel headings are parts,
+# not chapters.
+#latex_use_parts = False
+
+# If true, show page references after internal links.
+#latex_show_pagerefs = False
+
+# If true, show URL addresses after external links.
+#latex_show_urls = False
+
+# Documents to append as an appendix to all manuals.
+#latex_appendices = []
+
+# If false, no module index is generated.
+#latex_domain_indices = True
+
+
+# -- Options for manual page output ---------------------------------------
+
+# One entry per manual page. List of tuples
+# (source start file, name, description, authors, manual section).
+man_pages = [
+    ('index', 'openmw', u'OpenMW Documentation',
+     [u'Bret Curtis'], 1)
+]
+
+# If true, show URL addresses after external links.
+#man_show_urls = False
+
+
+# -- Options for Texinfo output -------------------------------------------
+
+# Grouping the document tree into Texinfo files. List of tuples
+# (source start file, target name, title, author,
+#  dir menu entry, description, category)
+texinfo_documents = [
+  ('index', 'OpenMW', u'OpenMW Documentation',
+   u'Bret Curtis', 'OpenMW', 'One line description of project.',
+   'Miscellaneous'),
+]
+
+# Documents to append as an appendix to all manuals.
+#texinfo_appendices = []
+
+# If false, no module index is generated.
+#texinfo_domain_indices = True
+
+# How to display URL addresses: 'footnote', 'no', or 'inline'.
+#texinfo_show_urls = 'footnote'
+
+# If true, do not generate a @detailmenu in the "Top" node's menu.
+#texinfo_no_detailmenu = False
diff --git a/docs/sphinx/source/index.rst b/docs/sphinx/source/index.rst
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..64c3c9796
--- /dev/null
+++ b/docs/sphinx/source/index.rst
@@ -0,0 +1,19 @@
+
+Welcome to OpenMW's documentation!
+=====================================
+
+Components
+----------
+
+.. toctree::
+  :maxdepth: 2
+   
+  openmw
+
+
+Indices and tables
+==================
+
+* :ref:`genindex`
+* :ref:`search`
+
diff --git a/docs/sphinx/source/mwbase.rst b/docs/sphinx/source/mwbase.rst
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..4044fbc97
--- /dev/null
+++ b/docs/sphinx/source/mwbase.rst
@@ -0,0 +1,33 @@
+openmw/mwbase
+=============
+
+.. autodoxygenfile:: mwbase/dialoguemanager.hpp
+  :project: openmw
+
+.. autodoxygenfile:: mwbase/environment.hpp
+  :project: openmw
+
+.. autodoxygenfile:: mwbase/inputmanager.hpp
+  :project: openmw
+
+.. autodoxygenfile:: mwbase/journal.hpp
+  :project: openmw
+
+.. autodoxygenfile:: mwbase/mechanicsmanager.hpp
+  :project: openmw
+
+.. autodoxygenfile:: mwbase/scriptmanager.hpp
+  :project: openmw
+
+.. autodoxygenfile:: mwbase/soundmanager.hpp
+  :project: openmw
+
+.. autodoxygenfile:: mwbase/statemanager.hpp
+  :project: openmw
+
+.. autodoxygenfile:: mwbase/windowmanager.hpp
+  :project: openmw
+
+.. autodoxygenfile:: mwbase/world.hpp
+  :project: openmw
+
diff --git a/docs/sphinx/source/openmw.rst b/docs/sphinx/source/openmw.rst
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..2da7caa5f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/docs/sphinx/source/openmw.rst
@@ -0,0 +1,16 @@
+openmw
+======
+
+.. toctree::
+  :maxdepth: 2
+
+  mwbase
+
+.. autodoxygenfile:: engine.hpp
+  :project: openmw
+
+Indices and tables
+==================
+
+* :ref:`genindex`
+ * :ref:`search`
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