Middle East in Focus
Delve into a robust suite of digital academic resources supporting advanced scholarship in history, religious studies, philosophy, and related fields. This collection addresses both classical and contemporary themes: from Islamic intellectual traditions and postcolonial state formation to contemporary themes like migration and regional security.
Discover why this collection should be the primary tool for your research.
This comprehensive digital collection encompasses:
- Bibliography
- Primary source
- Reference work
- Text edition
- Book series
- Journals
Essential primary sources online
Middle Eastern Manuscripts Online
- Middle Eastern Manuscripts Online 1: Pioneer Orientalists
- Middle Eastern Manuscripts Online 2: The Ottoman Legacy of Levinus Warner
- Middle Eastern Manuscripts Online 3: Arabic Manuscripts from the Library of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences in Budapest
- Middle Eastern Manuscripts Online 4: The Shangoda Collections from Dagestan
Arab-Islamic Biographical Archive
The Arab-Islamic Biographical Archive contained around 95,000 biographies of approximately 80,000 individuals spanning the period from pre-Islamic times to 1918. The archive's geographical framework is determined by the development of Islam into one of the three major world religions during this period. The biographies document the outstanding cultural contributions of individuals to the Islamic world, as well as the significant achievements of this cultural group for world culture.
Essential reference works
Encyclopaedia of Islam Online
The Encyclopaedia of Islam Online is a unique and invaluable reference tool, touching on all aspects of Islam from the time of the Prophet to the present day. It is indispensable to scholars working in Islamic Studies, geographers, sociologists, journalists, policy makers and NGO's with an interest in Muslim culture and Islam.
- The Encyclopaedia of Islam Second Edition (1955-2005)
- The Encyclopaedia of Islam Third Edition (2007- present day)
- Historical Atlas of Islam
“Continues the heritage of the previous editions in striving to achieve excellence, and it remains an essential acquisition for libraries supporting academic study of Islam, Middle Eastern studies, or the Arabic language.”
C.A. Sproles, University of Louisville, in: CHOICE connect, December 2016
Essential bibliography
Index Islamicus Online
Index Islamicus is the international classified bibliography of publications in European languages on all aspects of Islam and the Muslim world from 1906 onwards until the present day. Presently, Index Islamicus contains over 575,000 records, covering all the main Muslim areas of Asia and Africa, as well as Muslims living elsewhere, and their history, beliefs, societies, cultures, languages and literatures.
Essential text editions
Classic Arabic Texts Online
Classic Arabic Texts Online offers approx. 19,000 pages of Arabic texts and includes the following:
- Bibliotheca Geographorum Arabicorum
- De Goeje’s edition of al-Ṭabarī’s Taʾrīkh al-rusul wa l-mulūk
- De Goeje’s edition of al-Balādhūrī’s Kitāb Futūḥ al-buldān
- Origins of the Islamic State by Murgotten and Hitti, the English translation of al-Balādhūrī’s Kitāb Futūḥ al-buldān
Classic Arabic Texts Online 2
Classic Arabic Texts Online 2 offers approx. 23,000 pages of classical Arabic texts and is a sequel to Classical Arabic Texts Online, focusing on geographical and historical works, including the earliest extant biographical dictionary on the life of the Prophet Muḥammad and the early generations of Muslims.
