Resources on the Ancient Near East
General Middle Eastern Resources
Resources on Judaica and Hebraica (including Israel)
Resources on Turkey and Turkish Studies
Computers and Languages of the Near East
Scholarly and Professional Associations
Library Related and Publishers' Sites
News and Electronic Publications
Bibliographical Resources in Middle Eastern Studies (CMENAS 520)
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University of Chicago Oriental Institute Homepage (Ancient Near East)
ETANA (Electronic Tools and Ancient Near East Archives)
A Bibliography of Comparative Semitics, 1940-2000 (Gregorio del Olmo Lete, Universidad de Barcelona - Fac. de Filologia)
Mnemotrix ArchaeoSearch DataBase of Ancient Near East and Classical Studies (Mnemotrix Systems, Inc. and the Institute of Archaeology at Bar Ilan University)
Okeanos: Website for Biblical, Classical, and Ancient Near Eastern Studies
Sapanu : Publicaciones en internet del Laboratorio del Hermeneumatica (Database of computer aids for text analysis of Northwestern Semitic languages (Ugaritic, Phoenician, Punic). Banco de Datos Ugaríticos Ugaritic Data Bank)
Northwest Semitic Links (zusammengestellt von Reinhard G. Lehmann / Mainzer Arbeitskreis für althebräische Sprache)
ISATEX (Uni-Mainz) - Informations-Stelle für Alttestamentliche Exegese
Netherlands Institute for the Near East
AEB (Annual Egyptological Bibliography - Leiden Univ.)
University of Michigan Papyrus Collection
University of Michigan Kelsey Museum
ArchNet: Resources for Near Eastern Archaeolgy
Institut français d’archéologie orientale du Caire
Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative
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University of Michigan Department of Near Eastern Studies
OACIS for the Middle East (Online Access to Consolidated Information on Serials: Middle Eastern serials in libraries in the United States, Europe, and the Middle East)
(MENALIB) Virtual Library Middle East / North Africa (Universitäts- und Landesbibliothek Sachsen-Anhalt Halle)
Country Studies (Country Studies/Area Handbook Program links from the Library of Congress
Middle East Microform Project (MEMP) Holdings List
MEMP Holdings List - August 2006 PDF File (The purpose of the Middle East Microform Project (MEMP) is to acquire cooperatively among its member libraries and make available microform or electronic copies of unique, scarce, rare and unusually bulky and expensive research material pertaining to the field of Middle Eastern studies; and to preserve deteriorating printed and manuscript materials of scholarly value.)
Islamic Calendar Conversion Sites
International Institute for the Study of Islam in the Modern World (ISIM) (Links to Resources--newspapers, virtual libraries--Academic links, Country links, Muslim links)
U.S. National Library of Medicine (Islamic Medical Manuscripts)
Library of Congress Selections of Arabic, Persian, and Ottoman Calligraphy
Islamic Manuscripts from Mali
Ancient Manuscripts from the Desert Libraries of Timbuktu
University of London. School of Oriental and African Studies. Centre of Islamic and Middle Eastern Law (CIEML) The Centre of Islamic and Middle Eastern Law was established in 1990 at the School of Oriental and African Studies in recognition of the growing importance of law in both its Islamic and Middle Eastern dimensions. (Especially useful is the Materials on the Net Link to Full Texts Resources)
HUQUQ.com (Islamic Law and Society Archives: Text and Links)
The Institute of Ismaili Studies
Middle East Studies Resources, U. Texas
University of Chicago Library Middle East Department
Middle East Documentation Center: Microfilm Project Catalogue
University of Bergen Centre for Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies
Columbia
University Library: Middle East Studies Resources
Publishers
and Bookstores on Middle East Studies
Center for Middle Eastern and North African Studies (University of Michigan)
University of Washington Library Near East Homepage
Yale University Library: Near East Collection
Middle East-North Africa Internet Resource Guide (University of Utah)
University of Exeter Centre for Arab Gulf Studies
University of Arizona Library Middle East Collection
US Census Bureau International Programs Center (IPC) (International demographic information with links, among others, to the International Data Base (IDB) )
University of Michigan Government Documents Center: International Resources (includes resources on the Middle East)
Iranian (Electronic magazine about Iran with many links)
The Internet in Iran (Academic, Commercial, and Government e-mail addresses and ULR's in Iran via the Iranian web-site)Iranshahr (By-weekly publication in Persian)
Payvand (Iran News, Directory and Bazar)
Arab League Educational, Cultural and Scientific Organization
Symmetry and Pattern: The Art of Oriental Carpets (A collaborative project of The Textile Museum and The Math Forum. Author: Carol Bier)
Fondation Arabe pour l’Image (Photography in the Middle East and the North Africa: locating, collecting and preserving the photographic heritage of the region)
Juan R. I. Cole's Middle East Links (A valuable collection of links to sites of Middle East interest: Scholarly Centers and Associations, Islam and the Middle East, Country Resources (Iran especially).
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University of Michigan Library Near East Division: Turkish Studies Unit
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Ajeeb.com Arabic Lexicons Page - المعـــاجم
العـربيــة (searchable in Arabic; includes al-Muhit (المحيط),
Muhit al-Muhit (محيط المحيط), al-Wasit (الوسيط), al-Ghani (الغني), al-Qamus
al-Muhit (قاموس المحيط), Lisan al-Arab (لسان العرب), Nuj`at al-Ra'id (نجعة
الرائد))
Multilingual
Dictionary (Arabic - English - French
- German - Turkish (Sakhr's free service on the Net)
Tarjim.com (Sakhr Software's English to Arabic Translation site)
QAMUS: Arabic Lexicography(Corpus Compilation, Word Frequency Counts, Concordancing, Morphology Analysis, Arabic Lexicon by Tim Buckwalter)
شبكة مشكاة الإسلامية : مكتبة مشكاة الاسلامية (Arabic Electronic Text Collection)
Persian Online Dictionary (English to Persian, Persian to English and English to English online dictionary)
Princeton Online Arabic Poetry Project (In Arabic, with recitation and translations; requires the latest version of the free Shockwave Flash Player.)
Arab Gateway: al-Bab.com
(Arabic Language Resources)
Newspapers
in Arabic links
Hahooa (The Arab Web Guide: Arabic, French, English)
Harf Information Technology (شركة حرف لتقنية المعلومات)
Arabic2000.Com (Arabic and English)
How
to Read Arabic Text on the Internet
Arabic
Web Index (Links to Arabic Resources)
Babel: Arabic (online course in Arabic)
ArabTex (FTP site at Universität Stuttgart)
The Homepage of Nicholas Heer (This site contains some samples of Arabic html files which can be used for testing various WWW browsers. It also contains links to a number of sites, including Heer's ftp site, which should be of interest to people working in the field of Arabic and Persian computing. There are also links to sites dealing with the Middle East and Islam.)
Arabic Software Map (TU-Berlin) (outdated)
Arabic on the MAC (University of Bergen) On these pages are collected various notes related to the use of computers and the computer networks for the Middle Eastern or Arabic scholar. They all are culled either from discussions that have taken place on e-mail or the otherwise, or from articles printed elsewhere.
Yamada Language Center (A service and technology center for language teaching, study and research at the University of Oregon.)
Sakhr Software (Arabic software)
Aramedia (Arabic software)
Journal of Arabic and Islamic Studies Useful Links (unsystematic, but rich, lisiting of resources of interest to readers of JAIS, including computer-related sites)
SIL Fonts in Cyberspace (Sources of Language Fonts on the Internet)
Ayna? Your Net Guide (Note: this page
is in Arabic. You must have a browser capable of viewing Arabic html documents.
How
To View Arabic Pages on Ayna and elsewhere on the Internet
Maktoob.com (Arabic and English. Maktoob is the first Arabic web-based email solution on the Internet.)
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American Oriental Society Homepage
Die Deutsche Morgenändlische Gesellschaft
Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland
Middle East Studies Association
Web Site
Middle
East Studies Association Bulletin
Association of Jewish Libraries Homepage
Middle East Librarians
Association (MELA: Includes links to libraries with Middle East collections
and a comprehensive list--with links--to vendors of books of interests to
Middle East specialists)
MELA
Notes (Journal of the Middle East Librarians Association #64 Spring 1997-)
MELCOM (Middle East Libraries Committee (UK)
International Association of Orientalist Librarians (IAOL) (inactive site)
American Schools of Oriental Research
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Gemeinsamen Bibliotheksverbundes (der Länder Bremen, Hamburg, Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Niedersachsen, Sachsen-Anhalt, Schleswig-Holstein und Thüringen)
Makhtutat al-Azhar al-Sharif (Manuscript Catalogue of al-Azhar) مخطوطات الازهر الشريف
Bibliothèque nationale de France (Manuscrits orientales)
Turkish National Library = Millî Kütüphane (with links to Türkiye Makaleler Bibliyografyası, English and Turkish: coverage 1995-).
COPAC ( Copac© is a union catalogue. It provides FREE access to the merged online catalogues of 24 major university research libraries in the UK and Ireland PLUS the British Library & the National Library of Scotland. )
WEBIS (WEB und BibliotheksInformationsSystem:
Sammelschwerpunkte an deutschen Bibliotheken)
Vorderer
Orient einschl. Vorderasien, Afrika nördlich der Sahara
Virtual Library Middle East / North Africa (Universitäts- und Landesbibliothek Sachsen-Anhalt)
University
of London School of Oriental and African Studies Library
Subject guides
Book and Serial Vendors for Africa and the Middle East (Results of a Survey of ARL Libraries)
Gabriel: Gateway to Europe's National Libraries (UK site)
National Library and Archives of Egypt (Arabic, English, French)
Oriental Institute Research Archives Acquisitions Lists
AcqWeb (Acquisition of Library Materials) (Book acquisition and collection development)
Publishers' Catalogues Homepage
PubList (PubList.com, The Internet Directory of Serial Publications: Search by title, Publishers, Subject, ISSN, etc. Includes journals and monograph series, print and electronic)
The Future of Area Librarianship (Indiana University Bloomington)
Leila Books in Cairo (Vendor of Arabic books and periodicals to major research libraries)
ALMAKTABAH.COM : The Internet Bookstore for Books in Arabic (a Soubra Trading House Business)
International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions (IFLA)
Harrassowitz: Book Sellers
& Subscription Agents
Harrassowitz Verlag
The HARRASSOWITZ Publishing House
Dove Books (Biblical & Ancient Studies)
Blackwell's Online Bookshop (Academic Booksellers to the World)
Rubin Mass Ltd. - Publishers & Booksellers
Schoenhof's Foreign Books (The Language Catalogue)
Dar al-Kitab al-Misri/Dar al-Kitab al-Lubnani دار الكتاب اللبناني -- دار الكتاب المصري
LIMAG:
Littératures du Maghreb
(Algérie, Maroc, Tunisie)
L'actualité littéraire maghrébine - Des bibliographies - Des documents en texte intégral
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CNN Arabic (Arabic)
Aljazeera.net (Arabic)
Arabic and Middle Eastern Electronic Library (AMEEL) List of Online Journals from the Middle East, primarily in Arabic
Digital Library for International Research (Digital content projects sponsored by the Council of American Overseas Research Centers (CAORC) and its Digital Library for International Research(DLIR) program: Revue archéologique syrienne, Arkeoloji Dergisi,,Arkeoloji Sanat Tarihi Dergisi, Yedi‘ot ha-Hevrah la-hakirat Erets-Yisra’el ye-‘atikoteha)
Arabic Web Index: Arabic Newspapers and Magazines (Arabic2000)
Kidon Media Link:
News Sources in Arabic
Kidon
Media Link Home (arranged by region or by language)
The Media Line (The Media Line™ (TML) is a unique non-profit news organization established to enhance and balance media coverage in the Middle East, promote independent reporting in the region, and break down barriers to understanding in the Arab and Israeli journalism communities.)
Pars Times (Iran & the Middle East, Iranian directory)
AMIN- Arabic Media Internet Network (Links
to Online Newspapers and Magazinzes)
Arabic News And Media (Links to Arabic and English News from the Arab World)
AKHBAR.COM (The News Channel by Arabia.On.Line: Arabic or English)
Arab Media: on-line newspapers in Arabic (www.al-bab.com)
IslamOnline.net (English or Arabic)
Uruklink.net (Iraq: Information and News)
MERIP (Middle East Research and Information Project)
Translatus (English translations of Arabic news articles and documentary sources)
Electronic Journals on the Middle East (University of Michigan Library)
Directory of Open Access Journals (This service covers free, full text, quality controlled scientific and scholarly journals. We aim to cover all subjects and languages.)
Aradne (Electronic journal on issues and resources on the Internet and digital libraries published by the Electronic Libraries Programme)
American Schools of Oriental Research (ASOR)
Arabic News Stand (Aramedia)
Electronic Journal of Oriental Studies (EJOS)
Journal of Arabic and Islamic Studies
MERIA: Middle East Review of International Affairs (Project of the Global Research in International Affairs (GLORIA) Center of the Lauder School of Government at the Interdisciplinary Center (IDC), published and edited by Prof. Barry Rubin)
NewJour (NewJour provides links to hundreds of electronic publications.)
Radio Locator (Radio Stations on the Internet. Links to over 10,000 radio station web pages and over 2500 audio streams from radio stations in the U.S. and around the world.)
Middle East Times (Egypt) (Weekly)
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Ajeeb.com Arabic-Arabic Dictionaries: Al-Muht, Muhit al-Muhit, Lisan al-Arab, al-Mu`jam al-Wasit, al-Ghani, and al-Qamus al-Muhit (Arabic only for browse and input/search).
al-Islam.com (Quran, Hadith, commentaries, and other texts: Arabic, English, Turkish, French, German, Malay, Indonesian; sponsored by Harf Information Technology)
Al-Islam.org Ahlul Bayt Digital
Islamic Library Project
Multilingual
Qur'an Project (Simultaneous-selectable Arabic, Shakir (English), Abdullah
Yusufali (English), Pickthal (English), Pooya/M.A. Ali English Commentary)
Quran Text: Safhat al-Qur'an al-Karim (Arabic text and searchable)
Al-Waraq (Arabic Texts) (Searchable and organized by category; Registration required, free)
World Assembly of Muslim Youth
(English site: partial translations into English of Islamic texts, including
the Quran, Hadith, etc., and Sayyid Qutb's In the Shade of the Quran)
الندوة العالمية للشباب
الاسلامي (Arabic site)
Bibliotheca Religiosa IntraText (Including Bibliotheca Islamica IntraText: Texts, Searching, Concordances, Statistics, Word Frequency, etc., Quran, Hadith, and Sufi texts in western languages only)
ETACO Online Dictionaries (Arabic-English Egnlish-Arabic)
Al-Khazina (Resources on classical Islam, including texts, Quran, Hadith, biographies of Muslim scholars, etc.)
Online English - Persian Dictionary
The Packard Humanities Institute Persian Texts in Translation (out of copyright texts, and includes more than Persian: 4 v. of Browne's A Literary History of Persia, Hariri's Maqamat, Nicholson's Studies in Islamic Poetry, etc.)
The Hebrew Aleppo Codex (in Hebrew: charset=Windows-1255)
Islamic Studies, Islam, Arabic, and Religion (Website of Professor Alan Godlas of the University of Georgia)
Institute of Ancient Near Eastern Studies (Charles University, Prague)
Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (CDLI)
Al Muhaddith (English or Arabic. Includes "Al Muhaddith's Public Library": Quran, Hadith, Fiqh and Dictionary titles)
Muslim Students Association University of Buffalo
MSA-USC Hadith Database (English)
OAIster (Mellon-funded project of the University of Michigan Digital Library Production Services. Its goal is to create a wide-ranging collection of free, useful, previously difficult-to-access digital resources that are easily searchable by anyone.)
Bibliographies and Course Handouts (in HTML and PDF)
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