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Research Tools for Middle Eastern Studies
Use these research tools to find information related to Middle Eastern Studies from sources such as scholarly articles, books and encyclopedias.
Article Databases and Indexes
Atlases, Maps and Gazetteers
Bibliographies and Subject Guides
Biographical Sources
Dictionaries, Thesauri and Quotations
Encyclopedias and Almanacs
Handbooks, Manuals and Yearbooks
Library and Book Catalogs
Organizations
Web Gateways and Search Engines
Article Databases for Middle Eastern Studies
Listings of articles in journals, magazines, newspapers, etc. Many include abstracts (article summaries). Some include or link to the full text of articles.
Atlases, Maps and Gazetteers
Resources that provide maps or tools you can use to generate maps. Gazetteers are geographical dictionaries, giving information about cities, mountains, rivers, etc.
- Online Resources
- Maps of the Middle East The Perry-Castañeda Library Map Collection - The University of Texas at Austin
- Print Resources
- Atlas of the Middle East.Washington, D.C. : National Geographic Society, 2003.
Doe Reference G 2205 .A853 2003 Atlases
Earth Sciences Lirary G 2205 .A853 2003
- Historical atlas of the Middle East. Stewart, Grenfield Parker. New York : Simon & Schuster, c1993.
Doe Reference G 2206 .S1 .F7 1993 Atlases
Earth Sciences Library G 2206 .S1 .F7 1993
Bibliographies and Subject Guides
Lists of materials in any format (books, articles, videos, web sites, etc.) organized around a common theme or topic. Subcategories as appropriate, i.e., chronological, language, geographic, etc.
- Print Resources
- Annual egyptological bibliography. Bibliographie egyptologique annuelle. Leiden, E.J. Brill,l
Main Stack DT 57 .A65
Online: http://www.leidenuniv.nl/nino/aeb.html
- Handbook of political science research on the Middle East and North Africa. Westport, Conn. : Greenwood Press, 1998.
Doe Reference JQ 1758 .A58 .H36 1998
- Index islamicus. London ; New Providence, NJ : Bowker-Saur, c1998-
Doe Reference DS 38 .A12 .I5
Doe Reference DS 38 .A12. I5 suppl.;
Doe Reference DS 38 .A12 .I52 compu/d;
- The modern Middle East : a guide to research tools in the social sciences.Simon, Reeva S. Boulder, Colo. : Westview Press, 1978
Doe Reference DS 44 .A12 .S5
Main Stack DS 44 .A12 .S5
Biographical Sources
Information about people, including biographical dictionaries, profiles of people or "Who's Whos", personal narratives, and other resources with significant biographical information.
- Print Resources
- Biographical dictionary of the Middle East. New York : Facts on File, c1991.
Doe Reference DS 62.4 .S53 1991 Biographies
- The International who's who of the Arab world. London : International Who's Who of the Arab World Ltd. , c1978-c1987
Main Stack DS 37.2 .I6
- Iran who's who. Tehran, Iran's Who's Who.
Doe Reference CT 1886 .I7 Biographies
- Political leaders of the contemporary Middle East and North Africa : a biographical dictionary. New York : Greenwood Press, 1990.
Doe Reference DS 61.5 .P65 1990 Biographies
Main Stack DS 61.5 .P65 1990
- Who's who in the Ancient Near East. London ; New York : Routledge, 1999.
Doe Reference DS 61.5 .L45 1999 Biographies
Dictionaries, Thesauri, and Quotations
General and subject specific dictionaries in any language, dual language dictionaries, thesauri, dictionaries of quotations, and acronym lists.
- Print Resources
- A dictionary of modern written Arabic: Arabic to English. Wehr, Hans. Wiesbaden : Harrassowitz, 1979.
Doe Reference PJ 6640 .W43 1979 Dictionaries
Main Stack PJ6640 .W43 1979
- The combined new Persian-English and English-Persian dictionary. Aryanpur Kashani, Abbas. Lexington, Ky. : Mazd?a, 1986.
Doe Reference PK 6379 .K3 1986 Dictionaries
Main Stack PK 6379 .K3 1986
- A Turkish and English lexicon : shewing in English the significations of the Turkish terms. Redhouse, James W. Beirut : Librairie du Liban, 1996.
Doe Reference PL 191 .R4 1996 Dictionaries
Main Stack PL 191 .R4 1996
Encyclopedias and Almanacs
General or subject-specific encyclopedias, almanacs, and other collections of factual information.
- Electronic Resource Finder
- Print Resources
- Encyclopaedia Iranica. London ; Boston : Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1982-
Doe Reference DS 253 .E52
- Encyclopedia of Arabic literature. London ; New York : Routledge, 1998.
Doe Reference PJ 7510 .E53 1998 Biographies
- The Encyclopaedia of Islam. Leiden : Brill ; London.
Doe Reference: DS 37 .E5 1960
Doe Reference DS 35.53 .E53 2002b compu/d
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Handbooks, Manuals and Yearbooks
Collections of information designed to help practitioners in a specific field or profession, or in the case of yearbooks, to provide annually cumulated information in brief descriptive and statistic form.
- Print Resources
- A Middle East studies handbook. Bacharach, Jere L. Seattle : University of Washington Press, c1984.
Doe Reference DS 61 .B3 1984
Moffit DS 61 .B3 1984
Library and Book Catalogs
Listings of books and other items belonging to a particular library or, as with union catalogs, a group of libraries, and usually containing information on the location and subject classification of each item. This category also includes national bibliographies, or lists of all books published in a particular country.
Organizations
Listings of subject-related associations, learned societies, or professional organizations.
Web Gateways and Search Engines
Broad, subject-related sites and subject-specific search engines available without restriction on the World Wide Web.
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