Online Resources For Research
Research Tools:
(See also the Near Eastern Languages and Cultures links: http://nelc.osu.edu/resources.cfm, and the Middle East Studies Library - http://library.osu.edu/sites/mes/, 614-688-4052)
OSU's Department of History eHistory portal - http://ehistory.osu.edu/ - this site provides background information, teaching tools, and primary sources linked to a wide variety of topics.
Text Analysis Portal for Research - http://portal.tapor.ca/portal/portal - this text analysis tool allows you to search texts - your own or on the web - for sepcific words, and provides a statistical analysis.
CIA World Factbook
https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/index.html
Intute: Art and the Humanities - http://www.intute.ac.uk/artsandhumanities/ - this database allows you to search among the best resources on the web.
Project Gutenberg - http://www.gutenberg.org/catalog/ - this catalogue provides access and allows you to search for full-text versions of literature in the public domain.
Electronic Middle East Sourcebook - http://www.intute.ac.uk/cgi-bin/redir.pl?url=http://sitemaker.umich.edu/emes&handle=humbul15959 - this peer-reviewed publication allows one to search and download complete primary sources related to Middle East studies.
Middle East and Jewish Studies Gateway from Columbia University - http://www.columbia.edu/cu/lweb/indiv/mideast/ - provides bibliographies, maps, and libraries with major Middle East collections and news sources.
Middle East network information center: MENIC - http://menic.utexas.edu/ - this comprehensive Middle East information service also provides materials and publications of its own.
On-Line Journals:
The MIT electronic Journal of Middle East Studies - http://web.mit.edu/cis/www/mitejmes/intro.htm - an internet-based peer-reviewed journal publishing scholarly --both interdisciplinary work and work within the traditional boundaries of the social sciences and humanities--writing related to the modern Middle East.
Web References:
On Middle Eastern Peoples and Cultures:
Publications of the Biblioteca Alexandrina (the new Library of Alexandria) - http://www.bibalex.org/English/index.aspx
The www.persia.org site was originally recommended by the Middle East National Resource Center at the University of Texas. This page is very useful: http://www.persia.org/Culture/cul.html
This site on Zionism provides an overview of origins of the modern state of Israel: http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/zion.html
The Turkish Embassy web site gives an overview of Turkish culture through visual traditions, arts and crafts, and literature: http://www.turkishembassy.org/
Turkish tutor online provides a view into Turkish popular culture and a basic introduction to Turkish language through the popular Turkish TV show, BİZİMKİLER - http://www.international.ucla.edu/turkishtutor
The official web site of the Kurdish regional government in Iraq provides an introduction: http://www.krg.org/ (click on Kurdish culture on the right-hand side).
On Islam:
Regarding the Sunni/Shi'i divide: http://ehistory.osu.edu/osu/origins/article.cfm?articleid=3
Review of the book "Islamic Imperialism: A History" http://ehistory.osu.edu/osu/reviews/reviewview.cfm?id=32
Journeys to the Other Shore: Muslim and Western Travelers in Search of Knowledge: http://ehistory.osu.edu/osu/reviews/reviewview.cfm?id=33
Maps of the Islamic Middle East from Princeton University - http://www.princetonedu/
Islamicity Qur'an search on line - http://www.islamicity.com/QuranSearch/
On the History of the Middle East:
Middle East History - http://ehistory.osu.edu/MiddleEast/ - this comprehensive source of Middle East History provides maps, timelines, biographies and key information in an integrated fashion.
Primary Sources related to key developments in Middle East History - http://avalon.law.yale.edu/subject_menus/mideast.asp - from the Avalon Project at Yale University
Art, Architecture, and music:
Archnet Digital Library - provides images, publication information and references on architecture from around the world. One reference provided is the Dictionary of Islamic Architecture.
The WADE Photo Archive - provides images of patterns in Islamic art from diverse parts of the Islamic World (Morocco to India). Citations are included for each image giving basic information; ie, what, where, and type of pattern.
On Area Studies:
Changing Perspectives on International Education, a book available on http://books.google.com/, targets school and university administrators, policymakers, and education planners committed to furthering the goals of international education in the United States.
On Egypt:
Description de L'Egypte, Texts and Documents from Napoleon's conquest on line - http://descegy.bibalex.org/
Regarding the destruction of the Library of Alexandria: http://ehistory.osu.edu/osu/archive/articleview.cfm?aid=9
Web site for the new library of Alexandria: http://www.bibalex.org/English/index.aspx
OSU-only on line resources:
These research tools and references are available directly on line to those with OSU usernames and passwords. They can be accessed from home by signing in on the OSU Libraries home page (go to "Off-campus Sign-in").
On Islam - Encyclopedia of Islam; Venture of Islam, Hodgson;
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