Near Eastern, Islamic &Arabic Studies: Selected Internet Resources

Read Arabic/ Computing Software and fonts
In order to view some websites, Arabic font may need to be installed on your browser. In most cases, Internet Explorer will display automatically with Arabic font or prompt you to download Arabic font. Internet Explorer will display from right to left while Netscape does not.

• AraWebParse - Visual Rendering for Arabic Web pages - view Arabic text with a standard browser (Netscape 4.03/MS IE 4.0 or Higher). You do not need to download Arabic fonts. Simply follow the instructions on the website.
• SailLab Technology Com - “Enabling seamless interaction between humans and computers through natural conversation and paving the way for powerful agents working on your behalf and intelligently collecting information.”
• The Arabic Tutor - provides information on software, hardware, Internet guides, and other links.
• International Systems Consultancy - purchase Persian/Farsi software and download Persian, Arabic and Urdu fonts at no charge.
• Library of Congress - Near East Collection.
• Medieval Arabic - (Arabic).
• My Arabic Teacher - software for learning Arabic.
• Nicholas Heer homepage - information on viewing Arabic HTML, FTP and Linux files, and to formating Arabic poetry.

• Arab & Middle Eastern Issues
• al-awda-CT
• Bahai Religion
• Countries of North Africa
• Egypt & Egyptian Issues
• Iran & Persian Issues
• Islamic Information & News Network - moderated discussion list.
• Islamic Religion
• Lebanon
• Middle Eastern Politics
• Pakistan
• Palestine
• Turkey
• Auteurs Arabes

 

• Africa and MiddleEast Reading Room
• Al-Assad National Library 19th Fair
• American University of Beirut
• The British Library's Arabic Collections
• Columbia University Middle East and Jewish Studies and Middle East & Islamic Studies
• COPAC -- (a union catalog of British Research Libraries, including Cambridge Univ., Edinburgh Univ., Glasgow Univ., Leeds Univ., and Oxford Univ.)
• Durham University, UK - Middle East Documentation Unit - links to various resources
• Emory University
• Hartford Seminary - World renowned for its Hartford Institute for Religion Research and its Duncan Black Macdonald Center for the Study of Islam and Christian-Muslim Relations.
• Harvard Fine Arts Library - links to reference bibliographies organized by geographic or cultural region.
• King Fahad National Library
• McGill Islamic Studies Library - well-regarded library of over 100,000 volumes covering the whole Islamic civilization
• New York University - Bobst Library - links to various resources.
• Princeton University - link to Department of Near Eastern Studies.
• Texas Tech University - Archive of Turkish Oral Narrative (ATON) digitized collection.
• UCLA Middle Eastern and Central Asian Studies
• University of Chicago - links to various resources including Middle East Documentation Center, Middle East Photograph Archive, Mumluk Bibliography Project and Mamluk Studies Review.
• University of Exeter Library
• The University of Jordan and its King Abdullah II School for Information Technology
• ULB Halle SSG Vorderer Orient - Virtual Library Middle East and North Africa (German).
• University of Michigan - opens to Graduate Division Near East Division - links to various resources.
• University of Oxford Mapping Asia Project - website for research of Asia, Middle East and North Africa providing collection descriptions and holdings of all UK libraries.
• University of Texas Austin, - Middle East Network Information Center.
• University of Washington's Middle East collections and Near East Section of the University of Washington Libraries
• Western African Arabic Manuscript Database - the database currently includes descriptive records of 20,000 Arabic manuscripts from West Africa.