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Middle Eastern Studies Reference Sources

Bacharach, Jere L., 1938-
A Middle East studies handbook. Seattle: University of Washington Press, c1984.

CALL NUMBER: Ref DS 61 .B3 1984

The Cambridge encyclopedia of the Middle East and North Africa. Executive editor, Trevor Mostyn, advisory editor, Albert Hourani. Cambridge [England] ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1988.

CALL NUMBER: Ref DS 44 .C37 1988

Civilizations of the ancient Near East. Jack M. Sasson, editor in chief. New York: Scribner, 1995.

Ancient Near East in Western thought; The Environment; Population; Institutions; History and culture; Economy and trade; Technology and artistic production; Religion and science; Language, writing, and literature; Visual and performing arts; Retrospective essays.

CALL NUMBER: Ref DS 57 .C55 1995 -- v1-4

Encyclopedia of Arabic literature. Edited by Julie Scott Meisami and Paul Starkey. London ; New York : Routledge, 1998

CALL NUMBER: Ref PJ7510 .E53 1998  -- v1-2

The Encyclopaedia of Islam. New ed., prepared by a number of leading orientalists. Edited by an editorial commmittee consisting of H. A. R. Gibb and others. Leiden: Brill, 1960-

CALL NUMBER: Ref DS 37 .E523

Encyclopedia of the modern Middle East. Edited by Reeva S. Simon, Philip Mattar, Richard W. Bulliet. New York: Macmillan Reference USA, c1996.

CALL NUMBER: Ref DS 43 .E53 1996 -- v.1-4

Encyclopedia of the Palestinians. Edited by Philip Mattar. New York : Facts on File, c2000.

CALL NUMBER: Ref DS 113.6 .E53 2000 

Middle East contemporary survey.
New York, Holmes & Meier.
v. 1- 1976/77-

CALL NUMBER: Ref DS 62.8 .M53

Muslim peoples: a world ethnographic survey. Edited by Richard V. Weekes ; maps by Paul Ramier Stewart. 2nd ed., rev. and expanded. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, c1984.

CALL NUMBER: Ref DS 35.625 .A1 M87 1984 -- v1-2

The Oxford encyclopedia of the modern Islamic world. John L. Esposito, editor in chief; editors, Shahrough Akhavi et al; senior consultant, Albert Hourani; consultants, Dale F. Eickelman et al; advisers, Feroz Ahmad et al. New York: Oxford University Press, 1995.

A four-volume set that complements the Encyclopedia of Islam, this source "concentrates on the ways that Muslims have expressed themselves in the modern period through political and social action as well as formal texts."

CALL NUMBER: Ref DS 35.53 .O95 1995 -- v1-4

Dictionaries

Ziring, Lawrence, 1928-
The Middle East: a political dictionary. Santa Barbara, Calif.: ABC-CLIO, 1992. Rev. ed. of: The Middle East political dictionary. c1984.

Political geography and geopolitics, Islam, Ethnicity and political culture, Political parties and movements, Israelis and Palestinians, Diplomacy, Conflict.

CALL NUMBER: Ref DS 61 .Z58 1992

Bibliographies and Research Guides

Bleaney, C. H.
Lebanon. Rev. and expanded ed. Oxford: Clio, c1991.

CALL NUMBER: Ref Bibliog DS 80 .B530 1991

Bryson, Thomas A., 1931-
United States/Middle East diplomatic relations, 1784-1978: an annotated bibliography. Metuchen, N.J.: Scarecrow Press, 1979.

CALL NUMBER: Ref Bibliog DS 63.2 .U5 B79

Atlases

Beek, Martinus Adrianus, 1909-
Atlas of Mesopotamia; a survey of the history and civilization of Mesopotamia from the Stone Age to the fall of Babylon. Translated by D. R. Welsh. Edited by H. H. Rowley. New York: Nelson, 1962.

CALL NUMBER: Oversize: f G 2251 .E6 B42 1962

Boustani, Rafic.
The atlas of the Arab world: geopolitics and society. Rafic Boustani, Philippe Fargues. New York: Facts on File, 1991.

CALL NUMBER: Ref G 1785 .B6 1991

The Cambridge atlas of the Middle East and North Africa. Edited by Gerald Blake, John Dewdney, Jonathan Mitchell. Cambridge: Cambridgeshire; New York: Cambridge University Press, 1987.

CALL NUMBER: Ref Atlas G 2205 .C3 1987

Biographical Sources

Shimoni, Yaacov, 1915-
The Biographical dictionary of the Middle East. New York: Facts on File, c1991.

CALL NUMBER: Ref DS 62.4 .S53 1991

Organizations and Associations

Links to Organizations, Associations and Societies:

• Union College Multicultural Resource Center
• Middle East Institute
• Arab Student Association at the University of Arkansas
• Arab Associations, Societies, Clubs, and Organizations
• The American Association of Teachers of Arabic (AATA)
• MESA - Middle East Studies Association of North America
• Muslim Student Association

Books -- Online Catalog

The Online Catalog is a computerized listing of this library's materials--books, government documents, and sound recordings.

Click on any of the following to choose a method of searching:

Keyword Searching

The Online Catalog may also be searched by keyword using combinations of terms for more precise search results.

Link to a more extensive listing of "multicultural" subject headings

THE VIRTUAL LIBRARY

Relevant World-Wide Web Sites for Research on Middle Eastern Studies

• Asian Studies WWW Virtual Library
  The Asian Studies WWW Virtual Library keeps track of leading networked information resources in the field of Asian studies including Regional Data, Individual Countries Data, and Asia-Pacific Global Data.
  Address:http://coombs.anu.edu.au/WWWVL-AsianStudies.html

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• The Center for Middle Eastern Studies
  UT-MENIC at the University of Texas at Austin provides a concise listing of the major information sources, divided into subject categories and by country/region about and from the Middle East.
  Address:http://menic.utexas.edu/mes.html

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• The Islam Page
  Comprehensive collection of documents and links to documents of primary sources, basic information, articles, and statements by leading Contemporary Muslims.
  Address: http://www.islamworld.net/

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• Yahoo! - Regional:Regions:Middle East
  Includes searchable index with links to the following categories: Indices, Arts, Business, Countries & Regions, Culture, Events, History, Middle East Studies, News & Media, Organizations & Politics.
  Address:http://www.yahoo.com/Regional/Regions/Middle_East/

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• Middle East Institute (MEI)
  The MEI dedicates itself to the study of the following areas: Arab Africa (Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia, Libya, Egypt, and the Sudan), Turkey, Israel, Jordan, Lebanon, Syria, Iraq, Iran, Afghanistan, Pakistan, and the Arabian Peninsula (Saudi Arabia, Yemen, Oman, United Arab Emirates, Qatar, Bahrain, and Kuwait), the Caucasus (Georgia, Azerbaijan, Armenia), and Central Asia (Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Kyrgystan).
  Address:http://www2.ari.net/mei/

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• Middle East Internet Pages
  Includes searchable index with links to the following categories and countries: Arts, Business and Economy, Computers and Internet, Education, Government, Health, News, Reference, Regional, Science,Society and Culture, Bahrain, Egypt, Jordan, Iran, Iraq, UAE, Kuwait, Lebanon, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia.
  Address:http://www.middle-east-pages.com/me.html

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• Middle-Eastern & Arab Resources
  Extensive listing of Middle Eastern Resources by topic and by country. Click on country name or flag to load the country-specific page. Current & special events, General Information, Culture, History, Religion, Language, and more.
  Address:http://www.ionet.net/~usarch/ak-arab.shtml

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• The Arab Internet Directory
  Searchable subject index with links to the following categories: News/Info, Arts, Business, Culture, Education, Government, Health, Media, Reference.
  Address:http://www.1001sites.com/

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• Arabic News & Media
  With Daily, weekly and monthly news links in Arabic and English.
  Address:http://www.fares.net/news/

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• All Iraqi Information & Events Page
  Links to BBs, Databases, Images, Iraq by Search Engines, Organizations, Religions, General, History, Business, etc.
  Address:http://www.iraq.net/

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• NSRC Middle East
  Provided by Network Startup Resource Center - Regional Reports and other interesting information. Includes Alphabetical Index of Countries with maps, links to Servers and general information resources.
  Address:http://www.nsrc.org/MIDEAST/mideast.html

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• Arab World Online
  An information source with direct access to virtually every aspect of the Arab world. Providing resources on country information, business, news & publications, legal, organizations, and events. Searchable index.
  Address:http://www.awo.net/

Electronic Texts and Electronic Journals

Links to Electronic Texts:

• Annual Egyptological Bibliography
• The Beinlich wordlist
• Egyptian Coffin Texts Word Index
• Islamic Texts & Resources MetaPage
• University of Michigan Papyrus Collection
• Papyrus of Ani; Egyptian Book of the Dead
• Scrolls from the Dead Sea
• The autobiography of Weni
• Marmaduke Pickthall Translation of the Qur'an
• Alex: A Catalogue of Electronic Texts on the Internet
• Electronic Texts Archives (University of Texas at Austin)
• UMI Dissertation Abstracts
• Various ETEXT Resources on the Internet

Links to Electronic Journals & Newspapers:

•  Al Quds (Palestinian Arabic Daily)
• Arabnet
• International Journal of Middle East Studies
• Middle Eastern Newspapers
• Middle Eastern Journals
• Middle East Journal
• The New Middle East Magazine
• News Resources - Asia & Oceania
• Middle East Studies Association Bulletin MESA Bulletin
• Arabnet
• The Arabic Newsstand

SOURCES OF RESEARCH MATERIALS: PERIODICALS

Scholarly Periodical Indexes and Abstracts

HISTORICAL ABSTRACTS

Abstracts of articles on world history, excluding the U.S. and Canada.

Index Islamicus. East Grinstead, West Sussex, UK: Bowker-Saur, 1994-
1994, no. 1-

CALL NUMBER: Ref Bibliog Z 7835 .M6 L6

Periodicals

• American-Arab affairs [1982-1992]
• Arab Studies Quarterly via ProQuest and EBSCOhost
• Daily report
• Middle east via ProQuest
• Middle east contemporary survey
• The Middle East journal via ProQuest
• Middle East policy via ProQuest
• Middle East review
• Middle Eastern studies
• Near East/North Africa report -- microfiche -- PrEx 7.13: -- Gov. Doc.
• Near East/South Asia report -- microfiche -- PrEx 7.20: -- Gov. Doc.
• United States. Foreign Broadcast Information Service. Daily report: Middle East & North Africa -- microfiche
• United States. Foreign Broadcast Information Service. Daily report: South Asia -- microfiche

STATISTICAL SOURCES

McCarthy, Justin.
The Arab world, Turkey, and the Balkans (1878-1914): a handbook of historical statistics. Boston, MA: G.K. Hall, c1982.

CALL NUMBER: Ref HA 4556 .M35 1982

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