American Collections
Abdul Hamid II Collection
This monumental collection portrays the Ottoman Empire during the reign of one of its last sultans, Abdul-Hamid II. The 1,819 photographs in 51 large-format albums date from about 1880 to 1893.
Afghanistan: The Arthur Paul Afghanistan Collection
The University of Nebraska-Omaha Criss Library holds the Arthur Paul Afghanistan Collection, one of the largest collections of Afghan primary and secondary materials outside of the country. It contains over 20,000 titles in more than 20 languages, including Persian, Dari, Pashto, and English.
Afghanistan Digital Library
The Afghanistan Digital Library is a service offered by the NYU libraries and is supported by the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Reed Foundation and the W.L.S. Spencer Foundation. It retrieves and restores works published in Afghanistan between 1870 and 1930; the long-term objective is to collect, catalogue, digitize and provide access to as many of this period's publications as possible.
Als Projekt der New York Universitätsbibliotheken mit Unterstützung der National Endowment for the Humanities, der Reed Foundation und der W.L.S. Spencer Foundation, findet, restauriert und digitalisiert die Afghanistan Digital Library afghanische Publikationen zwischen 1871-1930. Im weiteren Verlauf des Projektes sollen auch die Publikationen aus der Zeit zwischen 1931 und 1950 digitalisiert werden. Auf diese Weise soll das kulturelle Erbe Afghanistans gesichert werden.
AMIR
AMIR (Access to Mideast and Islamic Resources) is a collaborative project founded in 2010, which provides information on public domain materials on Near Eastern Studies and Islam. An up-to-date inventory list of public access online journals as well as of current digitization projects is planned. AMIR makes use of AWOL (The Ancient World Online), a blogger project run by the Pattee library of Penn State University.
AMIR (Access to Mideast and Islamic Resources) ist ein seit 2010 bestehendes Kollaborationsprojekt, das Informationen über frei zugängliche Materialien für Studien des Mittleren Osten und des Islams anbietet. Ebenso ist eine aktuelle Bestandsliste online verfügbarer Journals sowie laufender Digitalisierungsprojekte geplant. AMIR nutzt AWOL (The Ancient World Online), ein Blogger-Projekt der Pattee Bibliothek der Penn State University.
Arabic Collections Online (ACO)
Arabic Collections Online (ACO) is a publicly available digital library of public domain Arabic language content. Its aim is to digitize, preserve, and provide free open access to a wide variety of Arabic language books in subjects such as literature, philosophy, law, religion etc. Established with support from NYU Abu Dhabi, contributing partners are New York University, Princeton, Cornell, Columbia, American University in Cairo, American University of Beirut and United Arab Emirates National Archives.
Archnet
Archnet is an collaborative digital humanities project focused on architecture, urbanism, environmental and landscape design, visual culture, and conservation issues related to the Muslim world. Archnet’s mission is to provide ready access to unique visual and textual material to facilitate teaching, scholarship, and professional work of high quality.
Archnet is a partnership between the Aga Khan Trust for Culture (AKTC) and the Aga Khan Documentation Center, MIT Libraries.
Duke University Middle East & Islamic Studies: Newspapers, Periodicals
Since 2000, Duke University Libraries have been building and expanding their Middle East and Islamic Studies collection. While collecting comprehensively in all subject areas in English, the collections in the three main regional languages, Arabic, Persian, modern Turkish/Ottoman Turkish, as well as Urdu, (for Hebrew, see the collection description on the Jewish Studies guide) center on the humanities and social sciences, with a particular focus on materials on Islam (jurisprudence, law, exegesis, theology), Arabic language (grammar) and literature (both classical and modern), as well as history (history of Islam, contemporary history) and politics.
HathiTrust Digital Library
HathiTrust is a partnership of academic and research institutions, offering a collection of millions of titles digitized from libraries around the world.
The HathiTrust Research Center (HTRC) was founded by the HathiTrust Digital Library, Indiana University and the University of Illinois.
HathiTrust ist eine digitale Forschungsdatenbank, die einen Partnerschaftsverbund aus verschiedenen akademischen und anderen Forschungseinrichtungen darstellt. Als eine jedem zugängliche Plattform, verfügt sie über eine große Sammlung an digitalisierten Werken aus internationalen Bibliotheken.
Das HathiTrust Research Center (HTRC) wurde gemeinsam von der HathiTrust Digital Library, der Indiana University und der University of Illinois gegründet.
Internet Archive
The nonprofit, San Francisco based Internet Archive project was founded in 1996 with the objective of establishing a comprehensive “Internet Library“. It offers digital access to books and texts as well as audio- and video files in various collections. Arabic and Persian works can be found in the section Community Texts.
Das gemeinnützige Projekt Internet Archive mit Sitz in San Francisco wurde 1996 mit dem Ziel gegründet, eine umfassende „Internet Library“ zu errichten. Das digitale Angebot reicht von Büchern und Texten bis hin zu Audio- und Videodateien in zahlreichen verschiedenen Kollektionen. Unter der Rubrik Community Texts befinden sich u.a. arabische und persische Werke.
Islamic Heritage Project (IHP)
Through the Islamic Heritage Project (IHP) the Harvard University Open Collections Program in cooperation with the Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal Islamic Studies Program has cataloged, conserved, and digitized hundreds of Islamic manuscripts, maps, and texts from Harvard’s renowned library and museum collections. These rare—and frequently unique—materials are now freely available to Internet users worldwide.
Im Rahmen des Islamic Heritage Project (IHP), einer Kooperation des Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal Islamic Studies Program und dem Open Collections Program der Harvard Universitätsbibliothek, wurden bisher hunderte islamische Manuskripte, Karten und Texte aus dem Bestand der Bibliothek und des Museums digitalisiert sowie der Öffentlichkeit zugänglich gemacht. Die Materialien variieren in Zeitraum, Themengebiet (u.a. Religion, Recht, Literatur, Grammatik), Region (von Nordafrika bis Südostasien) und Sprache (Arabisch, Persisch, Osmanisch-Türkisch, Urdu).
Khayrallah Center Archive
An online platform by the Moise A. Khayrallah Center for Lebanese Diaspora Studies of the North Carolina State University. A collection of materials relating to Libanon is offered, like newspapers and journals, but also photographs, books and other documents. These can be researched in different categories or by using key words. Searching for Arabic terms is also partially possible.
Eine online-Plattform des Moise A. Khayrallah Center for Lebanese Diaspora Studies der Staatlichen Universität North Carolina. Sie bietet eine Sammlung von Libanon bezogenen Materialien wie Zeitungen und Zeitschriften, aber auch Fotografien, Büchern und anderen Dokumenten. Diese können in den einzelnen Kategorien aber auch unter Suchbegriffen recherchiert werden. Dabei ist teilweise auch die Suche nach arabischen Begriffen möglich. Die Seite ist vollständig auf Englisch.
Middle Eastern & North African Newspapers
The Middle Eastern & North African Newspapers collection offers digitized publications of the countries of the Middle East and North Africa, from the Ottoman Empire to the Arab Spring, providing unique insights into the history of individual countries, as well as broad viewpoints on key historic events from the late nineteenth century through the present. Key topics include the decline of colonialism, the collapse of the Ottoman Empire, the Suez Crisis, the Cold War, the rise of the petroleum industry, twentieth-century pan-Arab movements, both World Wars, the establishment of the state of Israel, the Iran-Iraq War, and the recent Arab Spring.
The National Archives (US)
Through Access Archival Databases, the National Archives (US) has made available online transcriptions of a number of collections, some of which will be of interest to historians of post-1945 Middle East.
Das National Archiv der USA veröffentlicht neben staatlichen Dokumenten zahlreiche Digitale Sammlungen, darunter auch zur Phase nach 1945 im Nahen und Mittleren Osten.
OACIS
OACIS (Online Access to Consolidated Information on Serials) is operated by Yale University and offers access to Middle Eastern periodicals located in libraries in the US, Europe and the Middle East. Since May 2014, they cooperate with the American University of Beirut.
OACIS (Online Access to Consolidated Information on Serials) ist ein Angebot der Yale Universität. Das Verzeichnis bietet einen Zugang zu Zeitschriften des Mittleren Ostens, die sich in Bibliotheken der USA, Europa und dem Mittleren Osten befinden. Seit Mai 2014 besteht eine Kooperation mit der American University of Beirut.
Women's Worlds in Qajar Iran
Women's Worlds in Qajar Iran explores the lives of women during the Qajar era (1796-1925) through a wide array of materials from private family holdings and participating institutions. The collection offers access to thousands of personal papers, manuscripts, photographs, publications, everyday objects, works of art and audio materials, making it a unique online resource for social and cultural histories of the Qajar world. More than 290 periodicals are accessible online.
World Digital Library
The World Digital Library (WDL), a project of the U.S. Library of Congress, is an international library which is supported by the United Nations Educational, Cultural and Scientific Organization (UNESCO) and comprises cooperation with libraries, archives, museums, educational institutions, and international organizations from around the world. The WDL offers primary materials from all over the world free of charge and in different lingual format. The key objectives of the WDL are the promotion of international and intercultural understanding and the expansion of the variety of cultural content on the internet. In addition WDL aims to provide resources for schorlarly research and to narrow the digital divide between the countries.
Die World Digital Library (WDL) ist ein Projekt der US-Kongressbibliothek. Es ist eine internationale Bibliothek, die von der UNESCO unterstützt wird und mit Bibliotheken, Archiven, Museen, Bildungseinrichtungen und internationalen Organisationen aus der ganzen Welt zusammen arbeitet. Die WDL bietet Primärmaterialien aus aller Welt kostenlos und in verschiedenen Sprachen an. Die Hauptziele der WDL sind die Förderung des internationalen und interkulturellen Verständnisses und die Erweiterung der Vielfalt kultureller Inhalte im Internet. Darüber hinaus möchte WDL Ressourcen für die Forschung bereitstellen und die digitale Kluft zwischen den Ländern verringern.
