Selected Middle Eastern History Resources

Databases
(*licensed by Rhodes College)

*360Search
Use 360 Search to search the Rhodes library catalog, selected databases and online journals simultaneously.

*ATLA Religion Database with ATLASerials
Combines the premier index to journal articles, book reviews, and collections of essays in all fields of religion with ATLA′s online collection of major religion and theology journals. The ATLA Religion Database includes more than 416,000 article citations from more than 1,500 journals (571 currently indexed), more than 210,000 essay citations from over 15,700 multi-author works, and more than 432,000 book review citations. This database begins in 1949 although indexing for some journal titles extends back into the nineteenth century.
• *Grove Art Online
  Grove Art Online provides web access to the entire text of The Dictionary of Art, ed. Jane Turner (1996, 34 vols.) and The Oxford Companion to Western Art, ed. Hugh Brigstocke (2001). We offer ongoing additions of new and updated articles, over 3,000 thumbnail art images and line drawings displayed in the text of articles, extensive image links, and sophisticated search and navigation tools.
• *Historical Abstracts
  Your complete reference guide to the history of the world from 1450 to the present (excluding the United States and Canada, which are covered in America: History and Life). This database is packed with annotated references to information on topics from the Renaissance to Tiananmen Square -- over half a million entries in all. Published since 1954, Historical Abstracts has long been recognized as the leading bibliography for historical study in the world. Currently over 2,000 journals published throughout the world are covered in the database, making this a historical periodical database unmatched in breadth.
• *Military and Intelligence Database
  The Military and Intelligence Database periodical list has been hand-selected by Gale editors to meet those content needs. Additionally, the product includes some basic reference materials that are updated annually: The Columbia Electronic Encyclopedia and the World Almanac and Book of Facts. With more than 500 titles and more than 7 million articles (80% full-text), searchers are sure to find answers to their reference questions.
• *NewsBank
  "A comprehensive, full-text news resource consisting of more than 500 regional, national, and international newspaper and newswire services." This link also access the NewsBank Academic Library Collection, Global Newsbank, Newbank Retrospective, and several individual newspaper titles including digital image editions of Die Welt, El Pais, International Herald Tribune, Le Monde, and the New York Times."
• *Oxford Islamic Studies Online
  Encompassing over 3,000 A-Z reference entries, chapters from scholarly and introductory works, Qur′anic materials, primary sources, images, and timelines, Oxford Islamic Studies Online offers a multi-layered reference experience designed to provide a first stop for anyone needing information on Islam.
• *Wilson OmniFile Full Text, Mega Edition (1982 -)
  Wilson OmniFile Full Text, Mega Edition contains everything (all the indexing, abstracting, and full text) that is contained in these six Wilson databases:
  Education Full Text; General Science Full Text; Humanities Full Text; Readers′ Guide Full Text; Social Sciences Full Text;Wilson Business Full Text
• *WorldCat
  The world′s most comprehensive bibliography, with more than 42 million bibliographic records representing 400 languages. Covers information back to the 11th Century. Includes holdings information from the world′s libraries. Now includes the Library of Congress Subject Headings as its thesaurus.
• *WorldNews Connection
  Contains the full text summaries of newspaper articles, conference proceedings, radio and television broadcasts, periodicals and non-classified technical reports.

Online Journals
(*licensed by Rhodes College)

• *JSTOR Middle Eastern Journals
• *JSTOR History Journals
• *JSTOR Religion Journals
• *JSTOR Political Science Journals
• *Project Muse Online Journal List by Subject
• *SerialsSolutions Online Journal List for Barret Library
• Directory of Open Access Journals - 3,200 free, full text, quality controlled scientific and scholarly journals, many of them searchable at the article level.

Reference Sources - Print and Online
(*licensed by Rhodes College)

• Concise Encyclopedia of Islam (Ref BP40 .G42 1991)
• *Concise Oxford Dictionary of World Religions
• *Dictionary of Islamic Architecture
• *Dictionary of Contemporary History
• *Dictionary of World History
• *Dictionary of Contemporary World History
• *Dynasties of the World
• *Encyclopedia of African History
• *Encyclopedia of the Middle Ages
• New Encyclopedia of Islam (Ref BP40 .G42 2002)
• *Oxford Dictionary of Islam
• *Oxford Encyclopedia of Women in World History
  The Oxford Encyclopedia of Women in World History, edited by Bonnie G. Smith, captures the experiences of women throughout history in a far-reaching, four-volume work. Although there has been extensive research on women in history by region, no other text or reference work has comprehensively covered the role women have played throughout world history. With over 650 biographies of influential women and over 600 topical articles covering topics such as geography and history, culture and society, organizations, movements, and gender studies, Women in World History is the definitive reference work in the field.
• *Oxford Encyclopedia of the Modern World
  Through its fluent global coverage, The Oxford Encyclopedia of the Modern World provides information about major world developments from 1750 to the present, with close attention to social, economic, cultural, and political topics. The Encyclopedia contains articles on world events; countries; organizations; regions; ethnic groups; and themes such as social history, demography, family life, politics, economics, religion, thought, education, science and technology, and culture. It offers coverage of standard geographic and ethnic units—such as Scandinavia, Korea, or the Gypsies—in the modern period. Significant institutions such as the International Red Cross and the League of Nations are treated at length. Comprehensive coverage enables readers to broaden their research outside a particular time or region and to explore topics within the context of modern world history. 
• *Oxford Dictionary of Byzantium
• *The Qur′an
• *Who′s Who in the Twentieth Century
• *Worldmark Encyclopedia of Religious Practices

Websites

• ABZU: Ancient Near Eastern Studies Page (U Chicago)
• Al-Khazina
  Al-Khazina is an interactive database for the study of Islamic Culture, particularly in the early centuries. We developed it for use in university courses on a wide range of topcs in Islamic civilization,and from introductory through advanced levels.
• Exploring World Cultures: Early Islam; the Near East (Evansville University)
• Gregorian-Hijri Dates Converter
• History of the Crusades (Baldwin, editor)
  A History of the Crusades, published by the University of Wisconsin Press over a twenty year period beginning in 1969, was intended to serve as a collaborative and comprehensive treatment of the topic, ranging in time from the first 100 years of the Crusades to their ultimate impact on the histories of the Near East and Europe. The work is comprised of six volumes, each of which is included here in its entirety.
• Islam and Islamic Studies Resources (U Georgia)
• Islamic Culture and the Medical Arts (NLM)
  The core of the exhibition is a selection of 39 volumes from the Islamic manuscript holdings at NLM.
• Islamic World to 1600
  Welcome to The Islamic World to 1600 Tutorial, a multimedia introduction to the first millennium of Islamic history, developed by the Applied History Research Group (U of Calgary). It will outline Muslim beliefs and practices, as well as the history of the Islamic world from the 7th to the 17th centuries, including the expansion of the Islamic empires of Asia, Africa, and Europe.
• MENIC: Middle East Network Information Center (U Texas)
• Middle Eastern History Resources (Tennessee Tech)
• Middle Eastern History Resources (Voice of the Shuttle)
• Mughuls (Washington State University)
• Muslims and Medical History
• Muslim Heritage.com
  Discover 1000 years of missing history and explore the fascinating Muslim contribution to present day Science, Technology, Arts and Civilisation.
• Virtual Religion Index (Rutgers)
  This site is designed to advance research in matters of religion. As a global forum that may be accessed instantaneously anywhere, the internet promises to surpass the impact of the printing press on the study of religion.
• World of Islam (USC)

Texts, Documents, Maps

• Ancient Maps of Jerusalem
  The site contains maps [and views] of Jerusalem, and basic information concerning the map-makers and the history of cartography in Jerusalem" during the Byzantine, early Islamic, Crusader, and other historical periods. Includes dozens of zoomable maps from the 13th through mid-20th centuries.
• Compendium of Muslim Texts (USC-MSA) Historically Related Maps of the Muslim World (U Pennsylvania)
• Internet Islamic History Sourcebook
• Internet Medieval Sourcebook
• Internet Modern History Sourcebook Travels in the Middle East
  The Travelers in the Middle East Archive (TIMEA) is a digital archive that focuses on Western interactions with the Middle East, particularly t (ravels to Egypt during the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. TIMEA offers electronic texts such as travel guides, museum catalogs, and travel narratives, photographic and hand-drawn images of Egypt, historical maps, and interactive GIS (Geographic Information Systems) maps of Egypt and Cyprus.
• The Middle East 1916-2001: A Documentary Record (Avalon, Yale)