Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies

The Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies collection supports the research and curriculum needs of the Department of Near Eastern Languages and Cultures (NELC) and related academic units in the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences. The collection contains both primary and secondary source materials with an emphasis on scholarly publications in the humanities and social sciences, and on materials in the three main vernacular languages of the area: Arabic (50,000 volumes), Hebrew (19,000), and Persian (5,000). The collection also includes an extensive list of current serials in all languages.

A core, specialized reference collection of more than 200 titles is integrated into the general Reference Collection (most of these titles are included in the Annotated Bibliography of Reference Sources for Arabic and Islamic Studies in the Indiana University Libraries).

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Encyclopedias:

Encyclopaedia Iranica: A comprehensive reference work covering Iranian history, culture, languages, and literatures in the Middle East, the Caucasus, Central Asia, and the Indian Subcontinent.
Encyclopaedia Judaica, 2nd edition: The standard reference encyclopedia for Jewish knowledge and life from the Second Temple period to the present day.
Encyclopedia of Islam (all editions): The 2nd edition (EI2) is the standard, authoritative encyclopedia (1960-2008) on the Islamic faith and the Islamicate world. The 3rd edition (EI3) is an all-new work (2007-) reflecting current scholarship on Islam in the twentieth century, Muslim minorities, and social science as well as humanistic perspectives.
Encyclopedia of Women and Islamic Cultures: A unique collaboration of over 1000 scholars from around the world, the EWIC is an essential reference work for students and researchers in the fields of gender studies and Middle Eastern and Islamic studies.
Oxford Islamic Studies Online (OISO): Features authoritative reference content and scholarly commentary on Islamic history, the faith and concepts of Islam, the people, tenets and practices, politics, culture, and more.

Bibliographies:

NEW! Bibliography of Arabic Books (BABO): A comprehensive bibliographic database which includes information about virtually all books published in Arabic before 1960 (eventually, later titles will also be included); database currently includes about 60,000 records.
Database of Arabic Literature in Western Research (DAL): Provides detailed, annotated, and content-enriched bibliographic records of books, articles, chapters of books, and reviews written in English since the movement of translation and commentary of Arabic literary texts first began in the West.
Index Islamicus: [SCROLL DOWN] The primary international, classified bibliography of publications in European languages on all aspects of Islam and the Muslim world, with extensive name and subject indexes.
Middle Eastern and Central Asian Studies: A systematic, non-evaluative bibliographic index of research, policy, and scholarly discourse on the countries and peoples of the Middle East, Central Asia, and North Africa.
Online Egyptological Bibliography (OEB): Provides coverage of Egyptological literature from 1822 to 2002 (roughly 70,000 items) as well as partial coverage of 2003-2008.
NEW! Oxford Bibliographies Online: Islamic Studies: [How to Access: Click link to "Islamic Studies" under "Browse by Subject" in upper left] Written by top scholars, each entry provides a balanced, authoritative introduction to a subject and its subtopics, followed by annotated lists of the key literature. Users are able to create personalized bibliographies.

E-Text Databases:

Afghanistan and the U.S., 1945-1963: Records of the U.S. State Department Central Classified Files: A collection of diplomatic documents, relating to internal and foreign affairs, consisting of thousands of pages arranged topically and chronologically (on the Archives Unbound web page, click on the collection title [lower right] for access).
Arab-Israeli Relations, 1917-1970 [Middle East Online Series 1]: Searchable, primary documents on the politics, administration, wars, and diplomacy of Palestine, the Independence of Israel, and the Arab-Israeli conflict.
Iraq 1914-1974 [Middle East Online Series 2]: Searchable database of original sources from the Anglo-Indian landing in Basra in 1914 through the British Mandate of 1920-32 to the rise of Saddam.
Kotobarabia Arabic E-Library: A collection of over 4,000 full-text electronic books in Arabic. The collection includes materials ranging from contemporary novels to national heritage scientific treatises. Interface is in English, but content is in Arabic only.
NEW! MEMO 1: Pioneer Orientalists (Middle Eastern Manuscripts Online): Digitized, full-color Arabic manuscripts from the 16th/17th-century collections of Joseph Justus Scaliger, Jacobus Golius, and Franciscus Raphelengius, which are held by the Leiden University Library.
Russian-Ottoman Relations: This collection of 193 titles originally published in Western Europe provides insights not only on the military ebb and flow of Russian-Ottoman relations (1600-1914), but also into their effects on European public opinion.

E-Journals:

NEW! Journal of Qur'anic Studies: JQS is a biannual, bilingual, peer-reviewed journal that aims to encourage and promote the study of the Qur’an from a wide range of scholarly perspectives.
Access to Mideast and Islamic Resources (AMIR): List of Open Access Journals in Middle Eastern Studies: The list currently includes nearly 500 titles with links.

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