Near East: Topics

A huge collection of resources.

A comprehensive site on the Arab Spring.

The Archive contains information about many of the groups that were later highly active in the 2011/12 political unrest

Downloaded exhibit catalog from the Chicago Oriental Institute Museum on Islamic bindings and books.

A union list of microforms in Middle Eastern languages held in the United States. A very high percentage are journals.

Union list of serials from or about the Middle East with holdings of member libraries.

Blog by Ellis Goldberg, professor in the Political Science Dept., University of Washington.

A website assembling and distributing information on open access material relating to the Middle East and Islamic Studies.

Full text papers on the early Islamic Empire, hosted by the Universitat Hamburg.

Digital copies of over 280 manuscripts, 275 printed texts, and 50 maps from collections of Harvard University.

Look under Ressources en ligne; under Bibliotheque for DIGIMOM; under Recherches MOM then Chantiers for guides on various topics.

Corpus of digital texts, many Islamic, with weak organization.

Full text of Francophone journals published in Egypt since 1798 (in process)

A vast archive featuring the cultural and historical heritage of the Gulf and wider region freely available online for the first time. It includes archives, maps, manuscripts, sound recordings, photographs and much more, complete with contextualized explanatory notes and links, in both English and Arabic.

The Quran and tafsirs.

A shared library in many languages, many scripts, with written, image and audio resources. Resources drawn from 84 institutions in France, Spain, North Africa and the Levant.

See Middle East, Africa and Central and South Asia Sections for digital copies of manuscripts, journals and images.

Includes numerous articles and other substantial information on hand woven carpets.

Digital Humanities techniques applied to Islamic history and culture.

Database of archived websites on human rights.

Arabic and English versions. See Publications and Activities in the toolbar, also al-Muntada newspaper in the right column.

Links to many projects digitizing Islamic manuscripts.

Collection of Frank Kamarcik, including European and Islamic manuscripts.

Virtual library of digital documents, including manuscripts, free of copyright, resulting from libraries, archives and museums, public or private collections relative to the Mediterranean countries.

Images of manuscripts held in the University of Edinburgh library,

A selection of world films available for viewing for free.

At the request of the holders of audiovisual archives in the Mediterranean region, “Sharing our Mediterranean Audiovisual Heritage (Med-Mem)” offers the general public some 4000 audiovisual documents, as of Mar. 2013, from the countries in the Mediterranean area. The TV and radio archives, set into their historic and cultural context, are accompanied by a trilingual documentary note (in French, English and Arabic).

Includes blogs, videos, specials, a discussion board, etc.

Searchable database of images of the coins held by the Dar al-Kutub in Cairo.

UNRWA Audiovisual Archive for Palestine Refugees

Over 4600 posters about Palestine from more than 50 countries.

Full text of Averroes works, a bibliographical database and additional links.

This site intends to create the infrastructure that is needed for a systematic investigation of the vast but severely understudied corpus of Islamic philosophical texts dating from 1100-1900CE

This growing archive covers modern history and culture of the Gulf and wider region.

Linguistic resource for the style of Arabic used in the Quran.

Guide to how to access and use archives, manuscript libraries, and collections in the greater Islamic world, both large and small.

Includes Syriac electronic corpus and Syriac Studies.

By the Center for the Study of Christianity of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.

Syriac resources from Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection.

A geographical reference work of Syriaca.org for places relevant to Syriac studies

A digital archive that focuses on Western interactions with the Middle East, particularly travels to Egypt during the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. TIMEA offers electronic texts such as travel guides, museum catalogs, and travel narratives, photographic and hand-drawn images of Egypt, historical maps, and interactive GIS (Geographic Information Systems) maps of Egypt and Cyprus, plus educational modules.

This website provides access to roughly 9000 items on political, socio-economic, demographic, and legal issues of water in the Middle East.

Accessible in English and Persian.