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History : Middle East: Books & eBooks

A research guide to primary and secondary sources for Middle Eastern history.

Selected eBooks

The Making of the Medieval Middle East: Religion, Society, and Simple Believers
Nakba and Survival: The Story of Palestinians Who Remained in Haifa and the Galilee, 1948–1956
City of Black Gold: Oil, Ethnicity, and the Making of Modern Kirkuk
Bounds of Blackness: African Americans, Sudan, and the Politics of Solidarity
The Social and Cultural History of Palestine: Essays in Honour of Salim Tamari
The Oldest Guard: Forging the Zionist Settler Past
Arabic and its Alternatives: Religious Minorities and their Languages in the Emerging Nation States of the Middle East (1920-1950)
Revolutions Aesthetic: A Cultural History of Ba'thist Syria
ʻAṣfūriyyeh : a history of madness, modernity, and war in the Middle East
Insurgent Aesthetics: Security and the Queer Life of the Forever War
The Ottoman Cities of Lebanon: Historical Legacy and Identity in the Modern Middle East
Axis of Hope: Iranian Women’s Rights Activism Across Borders
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Browsing Middle East History

The UW Libraries arranges books by Library of Congress call numbers. Though history is covered in every discipline (e.g., women's history may be located in the women's studies call numbers while the medical history may be in the medicine call numbers), the major sections for Middle East history are listed below.

DR401-DR741 Turkey Suz 4
DS36-DS326 Middle East Suz 3
DS67-DS79 Iraq Suz 3
DS80-DS90 Lebanon Suz 3
DS92-DS99 Syria Suz 3
DS101-DS151 Israel Suz 3
DS92-DS99 Syria Suz 3
DS153-DS154 Jordan Suz 3
DS161-DS195 Armenia Suz 3
DS201-DS248 Arabian peninsula Suz 3
DS251-DS356 Iran Suz 3


For a more specific breakdown of the call numbers see the Library of Congress Classification Online.

History eBook Collections

 Additional collections of eBooks can be found on eBook Collections guide. The following collections have strong history content:

Finding Books Beyond the UW

If you can't find the books you need at the UW or through our Summit partner libraries (Summit material can be found in UW Libraries Search), use the following catalogs. Books not available at the UW can be requested through Interlibrary Loan.