Collection Development
Middle East & Islamic Studies

General

• NITLE Arab World Project (online sources for the study of culture and civilization of the Arab World & Islam / National Institute for Technology and Liberal Education.)
• Bibliographies on Middle East
• Introduction to the Bibliography of Dissertations in English on Arabic-Western Literary Relations, 1902-1997Indiana University
• Arabic and Islamic literature online (E-books):
• Country Studies by Library of Congress (Most books in the series deal with a particular foreign country, describing and analyzing its political, economic, social, and national security systems and institutions, and examining the interrelationships of those systems and the ways they are shaped by cultural factors. )
• Middle East Area Studies, from Library of Congress MARVEL
• Turkish Studies Resource Guide
• Al Waraq: More than a million pages of Arab patrimony
• Middle East Bibliography (Christian Peacemaker Teams)
• Economic Cooperation and Integration in the Middle East: A Literature Survey.
• CIA Research Reports, Middle East, 1946-1976, Microform Collections
• Research Resources. Going On-Line: The Middle East on Internet (MESA Bulletin 26(2), December 1992)
• Annotated Bibliography of Government Documents Related to the Threat of Terrorism and the Attacks of September 11, 2001 [Oklahoma Department of Libraries]
• Index Translationum
• The Library of Alexandria
• The Library of Alexandria / electronic books in image format
• Online Bibliography by Topic of the Mathematical Sciences in the Medieval Islamic World
• The Travelers in the Middle East Archive (TIMEA)

• Free Bibliographic Service

  Since 1979, the Documentation Center of the Moshe Dayan Center has catalogued periodical articles on the Middle East in a database now comprising 100,000 entries. Access is now easy and free via the Internet (using Telnet). Enter "telnet aleph.tau.ac.il" at prompt. For username, enter "aleph". Select terminal type. Enter "LB" to change library. Select "Tel Aviv University" from menu. Select "DAY-Dayan Center" from menu. Enter "M1" for search codes and begin. For queries, contact: marion@ccsg.tau.ac.il

  INDEX ARABICUS

• ERIC (Educational Research Information Center)

• Algeria
  • Algeria: A Bibliography of Events Since 1991

• The Gulf
  • South Asians in the Middle East: a bibliography (Compiled by Vanessa Tait, UC Berkeley)
  • From EPIC (Education for Peace in Iraq Center), extensive bibliographic guide to the Iraq conflict

• Ibn Asakir
  • Secondary Works which Address Ibn `Asakir's Ta'rikh Madinat Dimashq

• Iran/Persia
  • Persian Publications (North America based publications)
  • Oral History Program, the Foundation for Iranian Studies

• Islam
  • Islamic Medical Manuscripts at the National Library of Medicine
  • Islam & Islamic Studies, Arabic, and Religion (Dr. Godlas, University of Georgia)
  • Oriental Department, University Library, Leiden
  • Bibliography of the First Crusade (1095-1099) / Alan V. Murray
  • Select Bibliography on Islam and Democracy / Saliba Sarsar & Alexander Keller
  • ISLAMIC STUDIES: A Bibliography(Books—In English) / Patrick S. O'Donnell

• Kuwait
  • Kuwait (Persian Gulf States)

• Lebanon
  • BIBLIOGRAPHY -- Lebanon / Library of Congress

• Libya
  • Green Book / (by Mu`ammar al-Qadhafi)

• Linguistics
  • Arabic Linguistic Bibliography, Michigan.

• Literature
  • Arabic Political Fiction in English Traslation (Bibliography)

• Mamluk
  • The Mamluk Bibliography Home Page

• Papyrus
  • Duke University Paprus Archive

• Palestine
  • Bibliography on Palestinian Women

• Qatar
  • Qatar (Persian Gulf States)

• Saudi Arabia
  • Saudi Arabia (Library of Congress / Federal Research Division)

• Turkey
  • Books and Publications on Turkey
  • Turkish Studies Resource Guide

• Western Sahara
  • Western Sahara: A Select Bibliography

• Women & Gender Issues
  • Women in the Ancient Near East (A Select Bibliography of Recent Sources in The Oriental Institute Research Archives)
  • Women in the Middle East and North Africa: A Bibliography Available for Free Download From Reference Corporation

• Audio-Visuals
  • Videography of Middle East, UC Berkeley

• Microtext, Graphics & Images Archives
  • Graphics & Images on Islam & the Middle East-Archival (Columbia University)
  • Manuscripts in Microformat(University of Chicago Libraries, Middle East Department
  • Wadod.net= Dodd centre of the manuscripts
  • Middle East Newspapers on Microfilm MEMP, Center for Research Libraries)
  • MEDOC Catalogue of Microform, U. of Chicago
  • Middle East Photograph Archive(University of Chicago Libraries, Middle East Department)

• Other Bibliographic Tools
  • Edited Works in Middle East Studies (Gopher)(Middle East Studies Association of North America)
  • Periodica Islamica (UK)(An International Contents Journal)
  • Oriental Department, University Library, Leiden
  • Kitab Ghara'ib al-funun wa-mulah al-'uyu-n, known as the Book of Curiosities. The Book of Curiosities of the Sciences and Marvels for the Eyes / Medieval Islamic Views of the Cosmos = The Book of Curiosities
  • Maktabat al-Mostafaa (free online books)

Middle East & Islamic Studies, http://www.library.cornell.edu/colldev/mideast

Ali Houissa, The Middle East & Islamic Studies Bibliographer.