Important Middle East Studies E-Books

A Muslim Manual of War / Tafrij al-kurub fi tadbir al-hurub
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ACLS Humanities E-Book
Also Known as: ACLS History E-book Project, ACLS History EBooks, American Council of Learned Societies
Major works in historical scholarship. A project of the American Council of Learned Societies....   [more]
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    ACLS Humanities E-Book: African titles

Afghanistan Digital Library
Based at New York University, the Afghanistan Digital Library contains information and full-text images of Afghani texts published from 1870-1930. ...   [more]
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Cambridge Archive Editions
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Cambridge History of Islam
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    Vol. 2A: Indian subcontinent, Southeast Asia, Africa & Muslim West

Digital National Security Archive
Also Known as: DNSA
- from Digital National Security Archive
The database includes more than 94,000 of the most important declassified documents regarding critical U.S. policy decisions.

DNSA contains forty collections as of December 2012, which are deta...   [more]

Early Arabic Printed Books from the British Library (1475-1900)
Also Known as: Early Arabic Printed Books 1475-1900, Early Arabic Printed Books From the British Library Part 1, Early Arabic Printed Books Part 1, Early Arabic Printed Books: Literature, Grammar, Language, Catalogues and Periodicals, Early Arabic Printed Books: Sciences, History and Geography
Early Arabic Printed Books 1475-1900, Early Arabic Printed Books: Literature, Grammar, Language, Catalogues and Periodicals, Early Arabic Printed Books: Sciences, History and Geography...   [more]
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Endangered Archives Programme - British Library
Digitized primary source materials collected and preserved worldwide....   [more]
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    Endangered Archives Programme - Africa projects

Historical Dictionary of Afghanistan
- from Gale Virtual Reference Library
3rd ed....   [more]

History of Afghanistan Online
Also Known as: HAO
- from Brill Online Books and Journals
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KetabFarsi.com
Full-text electronic editions of Persian books on a variety of subject, esp. literature and politics. ...   [more]
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Kotobarabia Arabic e-library
Also Known as: EB-KAEL Kotobarabia Digital Library
Online access to approximately 4000 literature, social science and humanities titles from 1960s to current, representing over 1,400 authors, publishers, NGOs and Publications. Includes banned literatu...   [more]

Kotobarabia Modern Arab Renaissance Collection
Also Known as: EB-KAMAR
This is an electronic archive of books published 1820-1914 from Egypt, Syria and the Islamic World. With over 2,500 titles, this collection covers humanistic, intellectual and scientific fields. Subje...   [more]

Ottoman Text Archive Project
Joint University of Washington-Bilkent University-sponsored project to make transcribed Ottoman texts and resources for understanding Ottoman texts broadly accessible to international audiences....   [more]
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Quran
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Shahnamah Editions Online
Also Known as: Shahnamah Online, Firdawsī's Shāhnāmah Editions Online
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Slavery and Manumission Manuscripts of Timbuktu
From the Bibliotheque Commemorative Mama Haidara in Timbuktu, Mali, a collection of 19th century manuscripts relating to slavery and manumission in Timbuktu. The materials, in Arabic, provide document...   [more]
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Related Middle East Studies E-Books

eHRAF World Cultures
Also Known as: eHRAF Collection of Ethnography
The Collection of Ethnography, established 1949, currently contains nearly one million pages of information on over 360 cultures of the world, past and present. Each culture case contains a variet...   [more]
Holdings: Updated in annual installments.
Supplemental URLs
    eHRAF User Guides
    Outline of Cultural Materials (OCM): Topics and Subjects
    Culture List for All Formats (Outline of World Cultures - OWC)
    Basic Guide to Cross-Cultural Research
    Overview and User Tips (obsolete)

Foreign Relations of the United States
This is the U.S. State Department's own site for The Foreign Relations of the United States series, which presents the official documentary historical record of major U.S. foreign policy decisions and...   [more]
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Foreign Relations of the United States facsimile
The digital facsimile of Foreign Relations of the United States is a project of the University of Wisconsin-Madison Libraries in collaboration with the University of Illinois at Chicago Libraries. It ...   [more]
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