Fall 2009
MAPS: HISTORIC and CONTEMPORARY
Subject Portal » Middle Eastern Studies
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- Margaret Schaus (HC)
- Susan Turkel (BMC)
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Index Islamicus
Provider: CSA
Offers citations to literature on Islam, the Middle East and Muslim areas of Asia and Africa, and Muslim minorities elsewhere. Includes citations to journal articles, conference proceedings, books, and book reviews from 1906 to present.
Oxford Islamic studies online
Provides full-text encyclopedia articles, primary source documents, maps, images, and timelines relating to Islamic studies. Also contains two full-text interpretations of the Qur'an and a concordance. Articles cover the history, peoples, beliefs, individuals, and cultures that constitute the world of Islam.
Worldwide political science abstracts
Provider: CSA
Provides citations and abstracts of journals in political science and related fields including international relations, law, and public administration/policy. Covers 1975-present.
Major Print and Online Encyclopedias:
Encyclopaedia Iranica
Publisher: London ; Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1985-
See online version as well: http://www.iranica.com/newsite/
Encyclopedia of the modern Middle East & North Africa
Publisher: Detroit : Macmillan Reference USA, c2004.
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CURRENT NEWS
Mideastwire.com
Offers "a daily email newsletter of concise, translated briefs covering some of the key political, cultural, economic and opinion pieces appearing in the media of the 22 Arab countries, Iran and the Arab Diaspora."
JOURNAL ARTICLES
RAMBI: Index of articles on Jewish studies
Offers citations to articles in the field of Jewish Studies and in the study of Eretz Israel. Material comes mainly from the holdings of the Jewish National and University Library. Covers 1966-present.
ProQuest Research Library
Provider: ProQuest
Provides citations and full-text magazine and journal articles in a wide variety of disciplines, both scholarly and popular in scope. Covers 1971-present.
JSTOR
Provides full-text and page images from many of the top journals in most academic disciplines. Coverage is from the inception of the journal through three to five years ago.
ATLA religion database + ATLAS
Provider: EBSCO
Provides online access to the entire core collection of more than fifty significant scholarly journals in the field of religion. Also provides citation information for journal articles, book reviews and essays for over 600 journals in the fields of religion and theology. Covers 1949-present.
ISLAMIC HISTORY
Internet Islamic History Sourcebook (Paul Halsall, Fordham University)
WEB PORTALS
Iraq War Debate (University of Michigan Library, Documents Center)
Islam and Islamic Studies Resources (Alan Godlas, U of Georgia)
The Middle East Research and Information Project
See also the Middle East Report, available fulltext from JSTOR.