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Welcome to the Middle East Studies LibGuide. This guide covers a set of high-quality resources of the subject of Middle Eastern Studies that can be a good starting point for your research.
Dictionaries
Encyclopedic Reference Middle East
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Encyclopaedia of Islam This link opens in a new window3rd Edition. Sets out the present state of our knowledge of the Islamic World from religion and history to politics and culture.
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The New Cambridge History of Islam This link opens in a new windowVol. 6, Muslims and modernity : culture and society since 1800.
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Encyclopaedia Judaica This link opens in a new windowMultimedia encyclopedia of Judaism, 2nd edition.
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Encyclopedia of Islam and the Muslim World This link opens in a new windowIslam in the context of the religion's history and role in the modern world
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A companion to the history of the Middle East / edited by Youssef M. Choueiri. 2005. This link opens in a new window
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More Encyclopedic Reference This link opens in a new window
Key Bibliographic Resources
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ATLA Religion Database with ATLASerials This link opens in a new windowFull-text database of major religious and theology journals. (1949 to present).
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Columbia International Affairs Online This link opens in a new windowContains the full-text of working papers, conference proceedings, policy briefs, economic indicators, and other theory and research resources in international affairs.
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Historical Abstracts This link opens in a new windowDatabase of journal articles and dissertations on world history from 1450 to present excluding the United States and Canada.
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International Bibliography of the Social Sciences (IBSS) This link opens in a new windowBibliographic database with references on sociology, political science, economics, cultural studies, religious studies and anthropology
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Modern Language Association bibliography This link opens in a new window
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RAMBI - Index of Articles on Jewish Studies This link opens in a new windowA selective bibliography of articles in the various fields of Jewish studies and in the study of Eretz Israel. Material listed in Rambi is compiled from thousands of periodicals and from collections of articles - in Hebrew, Yiddish, and European languages- mainly from the holdings of the Jewish National and University Library, a world center for research on the Jewish people and Eretz Israel.
Other bibliographic reference and electronic journals databases
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Academic Search Premier This link opens in a new windowMultidisciplinary bibliographic and full-text database
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Annual Reviews This link opens in a new windowOverview articles in biomedical, physical and social sciences
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Arts & Humanities Citation Index This link opens in a new windowAs part of Web of Science. A&HCI covers 1975-present.
Access the world’s leading scholarly literature in the social sciences, arts, and humanities and examine proceedings of international conferences, symposia, seminars, colloquia, workshops, and conventions. -
Nexis Uni This link opens in a new windowA continuously updated full-text database of nearly 6000 sources that are useful for researching company and business topics, legal information, and current news and events.
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Periodical Archive Online This link opens in a new windowAchival issues of hundreds of journals in the humanities and social sciences. Covers many journals from their very beginning, until 1995.
Middle East News
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BBC Middle East News This link opens in a new window
United Nations - Middle East
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United Nations - Middle EastSearch: Middle East
SmartCat
Google Search
- Google Scholar This link opens in a new windowFor direct access to full text documents:
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Click on Settings - Search result - Bibliography manager, choose e.g. Endnote - Google Books This link opens in a new window
Handbooks
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Egypt on the Brink : From Nasser to the Muslim Brotherhood
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ISBN: 9780300203707Publication Date: 2013 -
A History of Israel
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Call Number: Arts Collection 60.MO 5.02 H03ISBN: 0333676327Publication Date: 2003 -
A History of the Modern Middle East
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Call Number: 68B 4341ISBN: 0813348331Publication Date: 2012 -
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Routledge Handbook of the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict
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ISBN: 9780415778626Publication Date: 2012 -
Salafi-Jihadism
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Call Number: Arts Collection 60.MO 5.02 M225ISBN: 9780190651121Publication Date: 2016 -
The Terror Years: from al-Qaeda to the Islamic State
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Call Number: Arts Collection 60.MO 5.02 M224ISBN: 9780385352055Publication Date: 2016
eBooks
Which eBooks are available for the subject of the Middle East? Restrict this set with title or keywords "Middle East", or "Arabic", "Israel", "Egypt" etc.
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Browse by subject This link opens in a new windowAlphabetical overview per subject. Around 80 different medical categories.
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EBSCO-ebooks on Middle East This link opens in a new window
Language Courses
These language courses are used for Middle East studies.
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Kallimni 'Arabi (5 levels) (with DVDs & CDs)
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Call Number: Arts collection 12.042 H23-27ISBN: 9774249771Publication Date: 2007-2009 -
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Alif Baa : introduction to Arabic letters and sounds
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Call Number: Arts Collection 12.042 H21ISBN: 9781589016323Publication Date: 2010 -
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Hebrew from scratch
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Publication Date: 2001
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