Middle East &
Islamic Studies Collection
Dictionaries
& Encyclopedias
*Last update: 2 Aug., 2010*
Dictionaries
- Bibliography
of Arabic Dictionaries (John Hinton) Unedited bibliography of Arabic
dictionaries, glossaries and lexicons
- Glossary of
Islamic Terms and Concepts
- Brockelmann Online
(will consist of both original volumes Geschichte der arabischen Litteratur (GAL) by Carl Brockelmann (1868-1956), as well as the three supplement volumes, including the indexes. It is full-text searchable, making it much easier to consult for researchers and students. The "Brockelmann" has become an indispensible research tool for anyone working on the Islamic world in general and the Middle East in particular).
- Islamic Dictionary
- Arabic
Language: Dictionaries - MavicaNET
- Arabterm (German-English-French-Arabic--"The Technical Dictionary ARABTERM.ORG is a joint publication of the Arab League Educational, Cultural and Scientific Organization (ALECSO) and the German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ).")
- Enzyklopädie des Islam (An encyclopedia with Islamic-shi'ite tendency in German and (partially) Arabic)
- E.W. Lane's
Arabic-English Lexicon (Dictionary)
- English to Arabic
Dictionary
- Dictionary of synonyms (Arabic-English-Arabic)
- Semitic Roots Index / The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition. 2000. ("to allow the reader to trace English words derived from Semitic languages back to their fundamental components in Proto-Semitic").
- A. E. D.
(Arabic Etymological Dictionary) / Andras Rajki, 2002
- Edward William Lane, An Arabic-English Lexicon
- The Nijmegen Dutch-Arabic Dictionary Project
- Beinlich
Egyptian-German Dictionary : An Internet-searchable database
- The
Salaam Biographical Dictionary contains over 2000 biographical entries compiled
by M. Nauman Khan
- al-Jawharî: Tâj al-lugha wa-sihâh al-'arabiyya Vol. 1 & 2, ed. Bûlâq -- zipped word-files (20 volumes) from almeshkat.com (salafi)
- Taj al-arous (Al Waraq الوراق )
- Tâj al-'arûs الزبيدي*= العروس تاج
- Ibn Manzûr, Lisân al-'arab
- Mawsû'at al-fiqh al-islâmî tibqan li-madhhab ahl al-bayt ('alayhim as-salâm)
- A Comprehensive
Persian-English Dictionary, Including the Arabic Words and Phrases to be Met
with in Persian Literature. [Steingass, Francis Joseph, 1825-1903]
- Turkish-English &
English-Turkish dictionary
- Türkmen-English Dictionary
[A SPA Project of Peace Corps Turkmenistan]
- Arabic
Contributions to the Spanish Language by Habeeb Salloum
- Prosopography: as-Safadî = The Biographical Lexicon by as-Safadî online at the MENAdoc repository (ed. Oriental Institute of the German Oriental Society, Beirut; series Bibliotheca Islamica)
- LookLex Encyclopaedia ("LookLex is a Norway based media house presenting North Africa and the Middle East to a mainly western audience. (...) aims at defining the region according to international human rights and ideals of equality and respect for the differences between people)
- The Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences Digitized Slip Archive of the Wörterbuch der ägyptischen Sprache
- Dictionary of Targumim, Talmud and Midrashic Literature by Marcus Jastrow 1926
Encyclopedia
WORD FREQUENCY COUNTS / Frequency Lists
Middle East &
Islamic Studies,
http://www.library.cornell.edu/colldev/mideast
Ali Houissa, The Middle East & Islamic Studies Bibliographer.
