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Islamic and Middle Eastern Studies Databases

Multidisciplinary databases

Databases A-Z - a complete listing of databases accessible from Edinburgh University Library.

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Help with using databases - advice on database searching, and guides to specific databases.

Journals

To find a specific journal title, choose Simple Search in the Library Catalogue. Click the Journal Title button and type the title of the journal in the Simple Search box.

You can also use Simple Search to find journals in your subject. Click the Boolean Search button and type your subject words in the Simple Search box. Click on Journals in the drop-down Quick Limits box.

The Middle East Review of International Affairs (MERIA) - owned and edited by Prof. Barry Rubin. It is produced in conjunction with the Global Research in International Affairs (GLORIA) Center.

More about journals and e-journals

Internet Links

  • Al-Islam - the Ahlul Bayt Digital Islamic Library Project.
  • Arabicizing Windows Applications to Read and Write Arabic - an article by al-Husein N. Madhany, The University of Chicago, which provides detailed instructions for enabling Arabic reading and writing capabilities in all Microsoft Windows versions, the major word-processing applications, and the major Internet web browsers.
  • British Institute of Persian Studies - an academic body founded in 1961, associated with and financially supported by the British Academ, which promotes scholarship and research in all aspects of Iranian Studies.
  • Centre of Islamic and Muslim Law - based at the School of Oriental and African Studies at the University of London.
  • European Association for Middle Eastern Studies - an academic exchange of information on research concerning the Middle East.
  • Harvard Middle Eastern Studies Links
  • H-Mideast Politics - an academic discussion forum where substantive information and analysis can be presented of Middle East current affairs and of its relevance to the foreign policy of states outside the region. The list takes the entire area from Morocco to Malaysia and from Kazakhstan to Somalia as its purview.
  • Iran Heritage Foundation
  • Islamic and Middle Eastern Studies (University of Edinburgh)
  • Islam, Islamic Studies - the academic website of Dr. Alan Godlas, professor in the Department of Religion at the University of Georgia, primarily provides a scholarly overview of Islam, while also touching upon Arabic, Western religions, and related subjects.
  • Islamic Philosophy Online - dedicated to the study of the philosophical output of the Muslim World.
  • Islamic Research Directory - from the German Orient Institute (Hamburg) and the Goethe Institute.
  • Islamic Studies - based at Rutgers University.
  • Islamic Texts and Resources - based at University of Buffalo.
  • Mapping Asia - a tool to improve access to UK library holdings for researchers working in all subject areas of the humanities and social sciences relating to Asia, the Middle East and North Africa.
  • MidEast Web
  • Middle east Network Information Center - based at the University of texas, Austin.
  • Middle East Studies Association (U.S.A) - a private nonprofit, non-political organisation of scholars and others interested in the study of the Middle East, North Africa and the Islamic world.
  • MiddleEastUK - an independent, non-political web site dedicated to the promotion of Middle East business, travel and culture. It also aims to pool together all aspects of Middle East life in the UK and provide a one-stop information source to individuals, businesses and organisations around the world.
  • Muslim Heritage - a community and non-profit initiative aimed at providing an educational forum to present and discuss the contribution of Muslim Heritage to present day Science, Technology and Civilisation.
  • Pars Times - an independent, non-profit, non-partisan web site dedicated to Middle East studies with particular emphasis on Iran. The site is maintained by Qumars Hojjaty and links are validated quarterly. Go to the "Iran" section - the "Iran Index", "Iran Reference" and "Middle East Guide" within this section are highly recommended. "Middle East Guide" in particular contains the richest resources on the internet about the subject.
  • UGA Virtual Center for Interdisciplinary Studies of the Islamic World (VCISIW) - based at the University of georgia.
  • Understanding Islam

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