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Internet Resources for Middle East and Islamic Studies

Comprehensive Middle East websites (collections of relevant links): MENALIB: AL-MISBAH (Univ. of Halle Library) - ancient and modern Middle East; MENIC : Middle East Network Information Center (U. of Texas Center for Middle Eastern Studies) - part of the World Wide Web Virtual Library - ancient and modern Middle East; Islam - Islamic Studies (Prof. Alan Godlas, Univ. of Georgia) - emphasis on Islamic Studies, but some on modern Middle East; ABZU (Etana Project) - ancient Near East; MENA: Middle East North Africa Internet Resource Guide (Prof. Joseph Roberts, Univ. Of Utah) - ancient and modern Middle East; includes all regional religions; CIMEL: Islamic and Middle Eastern Law Materials on the Net (U. of London, School of Oriental and African Studies) - part of the World Wide Web Virtual Library; ASSR: Arab Social Science Research (ASSR organization) - modern Middle East; social sciences; Virtual Religion Index: Islamic Studies (Rutgers Univ. Religion Dept.) - Islam; includes Links to basic texts; Islam in Comparative Context: Online Resources (UC Berkeley, ORIAS) - developed for K-12 outreach, but some good online text sources of interest to all (e.g. "Islam in America" and "Women and Islam"); For Middle East government sites see InfoSurf's Research in Governement Information - In-Depth: Foreign Governments

Reference Tools

MENA Contents (Univ. of Halle Library) - Table of contents of over 120 academic Journals relating to Middle East studies

TOCS-IN: Table of Contents of Journals of Interest to Classicists (Univ. of Toronto) - Not just classics, it includes over 18 journals relating to the ancient Near East

RAMBI - Current Contents of Periodicals on the Middle East

Foreign Governments: Middle East and North Africa (Univ. of Michigan Documents Center) - constitutions, elections, official government sites

Calendar converters

Computus Calendar Conversion Project (U. of Michigan)

Islamic Calendar Converter (Muslim Students Assoc. of the U. of Missouri)

Mamluk Bibliography (Middle East Documentation Center, Univ. of Chicago) - Bibliographies of primary sources relating to the Mamluks

Orion Center for the Study of the Dead Sea Scrolls and Associated Literature (Hebrew University of Jerusalem) - searchable bibliography and selected photographs

Media Sources: MENIC News and Media (U. of Texas Center for Middle Eastern Studies) - probably the most comprehensive site for links to Middle East newspapers and media in all languages of the region and English and French; See InfoSurf's Online Newspapers - Arabic and Persian, Hebrew, and Turkish; See also MediaLink; See also Newslink
Many newspapers and other media are available by searching LexisNexis Academic and Ethnic NewsWatch

Electronic Texts: Al-Quran (MSA, Univ. of Buffalo) - Arabic text and English translation by al-Hilali and Khan; Al-Qur'an (Ajeeb.com) - Arabic text and English translation; Arabic recitation. Hadith; The Noble Qur'an (MSA, USC) - Three English translations by Yusuf Ali, Pickthall, and Shakir. Commentary by Maududi; The Koran (U. of Michigan Humanities Text Initiative) - English translation by Shakir; Sunnah and Hadith (MSA, USC); Basic Reference Tools in Islamic Art and Architecture (Harvard Fine Arts Library) - call numbers refer to Fine Arts collection; Resources on the Koran and Koranic Studies (Univ. of Michigan Library) - call numbers refer to Michigan collection; includes online links; Middle East and Islamic World Filmography 1997 (Univ. of North Carolina Library) - documentary and feature films; A Survey Catalogue and Brief Critical History of Iranian Feature Film, 1896-1975 (Univ. of Washington); AMEWS Pedagogy Corner - collection of syllabuses for courses of study on Middle Eastern women

Digital Projects [and Image Databases]: MEDU: Middle East Documentation Unit (Durham Univ. Library) - modern Middle East - politics, economics, and society; ArchNet Digital Library - Islamic architecture; NMIT: New Media and Information Technology in the Middle East (Georgetown Univ. Center for Contemporary Arab Studies) - "working papers"; GOLD: Genizah Online Database (Cambridge Univ. Library); The Princeton Geniza Project (Princeton Univ.); Canaan and Ancient Israel @ University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology - exhibit; SAHD: Semantics of Ancient Hebrew Database; XSTAR: XML System for Textual and Archaeological Research (Univ. of Chicago, Oriental Institute) - includes The Achaemenid Royal Inscriptions and The Chicago Hittite Dictionary projects; CDLI: Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (UCLA); Sumerian Text Archive (Leiden Univ.); Deir el-Medina Database (Leiden Univ.); Diotima: Materials for the Study of Women and Gender in the Ancient World; Oriental Institute Photographic Archive (Univ. of Chicago)

Other University of California Middle East Collections: UCLA Library Collections and Internet Resources in Middle Eastern, Armenian, and Central Asian Studies; UCLA Library Collections and Internet Resources in Jewish Studies; UC Berkeley Near Eastern Collections

Professional Academic Organizations: MESA (Middle East Studies Association of North America) - also see MESA for its over 35 affiliated associations and centers - including American Association of Teachers of Arabic, American Association of Teachers of Persian, American Research Center in Egypt, Association for Israel Studies, Association of Middle East Women's Studies, Center for Arabic Studies Abroad, Historians of Islamic Art, Society for Iranian Studies, Turkish Studies Association; American Oriental Society (AOS); ASOR (American Schools of Oriental Research); BRISMES (British Society for Middle Eastern Studies); EURAMES (European Association for Middle Eastern Studies); Aram Society for Syro-Mesopotamian Studies

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