Open Access Journal: Textual Criticism of Persian Literature.

Textual Criticism of Persian Literature = Matnʹshināsī-i adab-i Fārsī = متن‌شناسى ادب فارسى

Published by : Dānishgāh-i Iṣfahān. Dānishkadah-ʼi Adabiyāt va ʻUlūm-i Insānī,
Date:  [2012]- 
ISSN:    2476-3268

"The aim of the journal is to promote Persian literary texts and acquaint researchers with studies in the fields of commentary on Persian literary texts, explanation of difficult points in Persian literary texts, critical analysis of corrections of manuscripts, introducing and explaining manuscripts, aesthetic analysis of Persian literary texts and analysis of Persian literary texts via modern literary theories. The language of the journal is Persian and all submissions should be in this language. All procedures of submission, refereeing and announcement are done online and via the site of the journal. All submissions are blindly refereed by at least two experts."


In Persian; abstracts in Persian and English.
 

Alphabetical List of Open Access Journals in Middle Eastern Studies

Syria, Iraq & Afghanistan : Mapping migration, social media and topography

Syria, Iraq & Afghanistan : Mapping migration, social media and topography
Authors: Wolfgang Taucher - Mathias Vogl - Peter Webinger
Published by: Austrian Federal Ministry of the Interior
Date: 2017.
71 pages.

ISBN: 9783950364392

Jerusalem Maps - Center for Palestine Studies Columbia University

Jerusalem Maps

"The Maps and Cartography section contains two kind of documents: original maps of Jerusalem reproduced here as a tool for researchers, and links to existing sets of Jerusalem maps—both historical and contemporary.

Riwaq’s Jerusalem Maps: The current stock that opens the collection contains five maps based on a ten-year survey of the old city undertaken by Riwaq: The Centre for Architectural Conservation. It contains a historical map identifying the evolution of sites according to the historic era (Roman, Byzantine, Umayyad, Fatimid, Ottoman, etc.), as well as markers identifying the condition, nature, size of buildings and residency in the walled city.  Those maps can be downloaded and used by researchers provided source reference is identified. (Copyright Riwaq: Bireh, Palestine)—Higher resolution images are available from the Centre directly."

Visualizing Palestine

 
Visualizing Palestine

"Visualizing Palestine creates data-driven tools to advance a factual, rights-based narrative of the Palestinian-Israeli issue. Our researchers, designers, technologists, and communications specialists work in partnership with civil society actors to amplify their impact and promote justice and equality."

Middle Eastern and Islamic Materials in Special Collections, University of Otago, New Zealand

An inventory of Middle Eastern and Islamic Materials in Special Collections at the University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand.


Daneshgar, M., & Kerr, D. (2017). Middle Eastern and Islamic Materials in Special Collections, University of Otago (Working Paper). Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/10523/7747

Abjad Calculator - tool for calculating the numerical abjad value of a string of Arabic or Persian text.

Abjad Calculator
Abjad Calculator is web tool for calculating the numerical abjad value of a string of Arabic or Persian text.
It was developed by Theo Beers , PhD candidate, University of Chicago.

New Open Access Journal: Journal of Muslim philanthropy and civil society

Journal of Muslim philanthropy and civil society
Author:     Center on American Muslim Philanthropy.
Publisher:     Plainfield, IN : Center on American Muslim Philanthropy,
Date: 2017-
ISSN: 2572-6544

"The Journal of Muslim Philanthropy & Civil Society (JMPCS), is a bi-annual, peer reviewed, open access journal published by the Center on Muslim Philanthropy in partnership with the IUPUI University Library Center for Digital Scholarship, and the Lilly Family School of Philanthropy at Indiana University. JMPCS seeks original academic research examining the broad scope of Muslim philanthropy and civil society. This peer reviewed online academic journal will publish research related to Muslim nonprofit, philanthropic and voluntary action. The terms “Muslim” and “philanthropy” are defined broadly to be inclusive of cutting-edge research from across the world and disciplines. JMPCS is intended to shed light on the dynamic practice and understanding of Muslim Philanthropy. We seek to draw articles by researchers from across disciplines (History, Political Science, Religious Studies, Sociology, Public Affairs, Nonprofit Management, Business, Philanthropy etc.) and practitioners throughout the world working in this emerging field."

Alphabetical List of Open Access Journals in Middle Eastern Studies

Open Access Journal: Orientalia Suecana

Orientalia Suecana
ISSN 2156-2253

The first issue of  Orientalia Suecana appeared  in 1952. Its founder was Erik Gren (1904–1959), Reader in Classical History and Archaeology at Uppsala University and librarian at the University Library. The journal succeed to the journal Le Monde Oriental, published in Uppsala in years 1906–1946. Most of the contributions in the early volumes were primarily philological, with a wider view towards historical, and especially religious-historical issues. More recently, besides the articles dealing with antiquity, Orientalia Suecana has published numerous studies on present-day topics and phenomena. While maintaining its philological focus on texts, the journal is open to linguistic and literary researches in the fields of Semitic, Iranian, Turkic, Indic, and Chinese studies.

Orientalia Suecana is a peer-reviewed yearbook. Manuscripts submitted to Orientalia Suecana normally are sent to two readers, one of whom may be a member of the journal’s editorial board. Reviewers evaluate the paper based on such criteria as the importance of the topic, the originality of the research, the methodology of the author(s), and the quality and clarity of the writing. The reviewers recommend to the editors whether the paper should be accepted substantially as is, accepted with modifications, returned for rewriting and a second round of reviews, or rejected. Ultimately, it is the responsibility of the editors to decide whether to accept or reject a paper. It is understood that acceptance of a manuscript is conditional until the editors consider the paper ready for publication and explicitly communicate this to the author.

Latest Volume

Volume 61 [2012]
Volume 61 [2012] Supplement

 Previous Volumes

Volume 60 [2011] Volume 59 [2010]
Volume 58 [2009]
Volume 57 [2008]
Volume 56 [2007]
Volume 55 [2006]
Volume 54 [2005]
Volume 53 [2004]
Volume 51-52 [2002-2003]
Volume 50 [2001]
Volume 49 [2000]
Volume 48 [1999]
Volume 47 [1998]
Volume 45-46 [1996-1997]
Volume 43-44 [1994-1995]

Volume 41-42 [1992-1993] Volume 40 [1991]
Volume 38-39 [1989-1990]
Volume 36-37 [1987-1988]
Volume 33-35 [1984-1986]
Volume 31-32 [1982-1983]
Volume 30 [1981]
Volume 29 [1980]
Volume 27-28 [1978-1979]
Volume 25-26 [1976-1977]
Volume 23-24 [1974-1975]
Volume 22 [1973]
Volume 21 [1972]
Volume 19-20 [1970-1971]
Volume 18 [1969]
Volume 17 [1968]

Volume 16 [1967] Volume 14-15 [1965-1966]
Volume 13 [1964]
Volume 12 [1963]
Volume 11 [1962]
Volume 10 [1961]
Volume 9 [1960]
Volume 8 [1959]
Volume 7 [1958]
Volume 6 [1957]
Volume 5 [1956]
Volume 4 [1955]
Volume 3 [1954]
Volume 2 [1953]
Volume 1 [1952]

 Alphabetical List of Open Access Journals in Middle Eastern Studies

Open Access E-book: A Journal of Three Months’ Walk in Persia in 1884 by Captain John Compton Pyne : Introduction, Notes and Translation

A Journal of Three Months’ Walk in Persia in 1884 by Captain John Compton Pyne : Introduction, Notes and Translation

Editor(s):    Harris, Russell & Afsharian, Marjan
Publisher:    Leiden University Press, Leiden
Published:    2017
Abstract :   A primary source on a journey to Persia by Captain John Compton Pyne in 1884 revealing the West’s fascination with the Middle East in Victorian times. The book includes an introduction by the editors and a transcription of the manuscript with notes and the original illustrations, mainly watercolours. An important historical document and eye-witness account pertaining to Iran, anthropology, area studies, study of ‘orientalism’ and colonialism, and for historians.
Series    Iranian Studies Series

Language    English
ISBN    9789087282622 9789087282820

Open Access Books by Irfan Shahid from Dumbarton Oaks

Open Access Books by Irfan Shahid from Dumbarton Oaks

Byzantium and the Arabs in the Sixth Century

Volume 1, Part 1, Political and Military History

Irfan Shahîd

Byzantium and the Arabs in the Sixth Century, volume 1, part 1, Political and Military History is devoted to the main Arabian tribes that federates of the Byzantine Roman Empire. In the early sixth century Constantinople shifted its Arab alliance from the Salahids to the Kindites and especially the Ghassanids, who came to dominate Arab-Byzantine relations through the reign of Heraclius. Arranged chronologically, this study, the first in-depth account of the Ghassanids since the nineteenth century, draws widely from original sources in Greek, Syriac, and Arabic. Irfan Shahîd traces in detail the vicissitudes of the relationship between the Romans and the Ghassanids, and argues for the latter’s extensive role in the defense of the Byzantine Empire in its east.

Byzantium and the Arabs in the Sixth Century

Volume 1, Part 2, Ecclesiastical History

Irfan Shahîd

Byzantium and the Arabs in the Sixth Century, volume 1 part 2, Ecclesiastical History provides a chronologically ordered account of the involvement of the Ghassanids in ecclesiastical affairs in the eastern region of the Byzantine Empire. Tracing the role of Arab tribes both inside and outside the Roman limes, Irfan Shahîd documents how the Ghassanids in particular came to establish and develop a distinct non-Chalcedonian church hierarchy, all the while remaining allies of the Chalcedonian emperors. Ghassanid phylarchs such as Mundir emerge not merely as loyal foederati but devout Christians. Shahîd extensively and critically analyzes the Greek, Syriac, and Arabic sources, including many obscure or unfamiliar texts to illuminate the religious landscape of the Arabs of the sixth century.

Byzantium and the Arabs in the Sixth Century

Volume 2, Part 1, Toponymy, Monuments, Historical Geography, and Frontier Studies

Irfan Shahîd

Byzantium and the Arabs in the Sixth Century, volume 2, part 1, Toponymy, Monuments, Historical Geography, and Frontier Studies is a topical study of the military, religious, and civil structures of the Ghassanids. Irfan Shahîd’s detailed study of Arab buildings of the sixth century illuminates how Byzantine provincial art and architecture were adopted and adapted by the federate Arabs for their own use. As monuments of Christian architecture, these federate structures constitute the missing link in the development of Arab architecture in the region between the earlier pagan (Nabataean and Palmyrene) and later Muslim (Umayyad). Drawing from literary and material evidence, Shahîd argues that the Gassanids were not nomadic, as traditionally believed, but thoroughly sedentary both in their roots and in the late Roman frontier zone they inherited. The third of four volumes dedicated to the sixth century, this book extensively depends upon the previous two volumes (volume 1, part 1, Political and Military History; volume 1, part 2, Ecclesiastical History).

Byzantium and the Arabs in the Sixth Century

Volume 2, Part 2, Economic, Social, and Cultural History

Irfan Shahîd

Byzantium and the Arabs in the Sixth Century, volume 2, part 2, Economic, Social, and Cultural History is a topical study of Arab economic, social, and cultural history in the sixth century. Irfan Shahîd focuses on the economy of the Ghassanids and presents information on various trade routes and fairs. He reconstructs Ghassanid daily life by discussing topics as varied as music, food, medicine, the role of women, and horse racing. Shahîd concludes the volume with an examination of cultural life, including descriptions of urbanization, Arabic script, chivalry, and poetry. Throughout the volume, the author reveals the history of a fully developed and unique Christian-Arab culture. Shahîd exhaustively describes the society of the Ghassanids, and their contributions to the cultural environment that persisted in Oriens during the sixth century and continued into the Umayyad caliphate.

Byzantium and the Arabs in the Fifth Century

Irfan Shahîd

Just as the Tanūkhids rose and fell as the principal Arab foederati of Byzantium in the fourth century, so too in the fifth did the Salīḥids. The century, practically terra incognita in the history of Arab-Byzantine relations, is explored by Irfan Shahîd, who recovers from the sources the political, military, ecclesiastical, and cultural history of the Arab foederati in Oriens and the Arabian Peninsula during this period. Unlike their predecessors or successors, the foederati of the fifth century lived in perfect harmony with Byzantium. Federate-imperial relations were smooth: the Arab horse reached as far as Pentapolis in the West and possibly took part in Leo’s expedition against the Vandals. They were staunchly orthodox and participated in two ecumenical councils, Ephesus and Chalcedon, where their voice was audible. But their more enduring contributions were cultural, and may be associated with Dāwūd (David), the Salīḥid king; Petrus, the bishop of the Parembole; and possibly also Elias, patriarch of Jerusalem (494–516), a Roman Arab. The federate culture gave impetus to the rise of the Arabic script, Arabic poetry, and a simple form of an Arabic liturgy—the foundation for cultural achievements in subsequent centuries.

Byzantium and the Arabs in the Fourth Century

Irfan Shahîd

The fourth century, the century of Constantine, witnessed the foundation and rise of a new relationship between the Roman Empire and the Arabs. The warrior Arab groups in Oriens became foederati, allies of Byzantium, the Christian Roman empire, and so they remained until the Arab conquests. In Byzantium and the Arabs in the Fourth Century, Irfan Shahîd elucidates the birth of the new federate existence and the rise of its institutional forms and examines the various constituents of federate cultural life: the phylarchate, the episcopate, the beginnings of an Arab Church, an Arabic liturgy, and the earliest attested composition of Arabic poetry. He discusses the participation of the Arab foederati in Byzantium’s wars with her neighbors—the Persians and the Goths—during which those Arab allies, most notably the Tanūkhids, contributed to the welfare of the imperium and the ecclesia. The Arab federate horse galloped for Byzantium as far as Ctesiphon, Constantinople, and possibly Najrân in Arabia Felix. In the reign of Valens, the foederati appeared as the defenders of Nicene Orthodoxy: their soldiers fought for it; their stern and uncompromising saint, Moses, championed it; and their heroic and romantic queen, Mavia, negotiated for it.

Rome and the Arabs

A Prolegomenon to the Study of Byzantium and the Arabs

Irfan Shahîd

The Arabs played an important role in Roman-controlled Oriens in the four centuries or so that elapsed from the Settlement of Pompey in 64 B.C. to the reign of Diocletian, A.D. 284–305. In Rome and the Arabs Irfan Shahîd explores this extensive but poorly known role and traces the phases of the Arab-Roman relationship, especially in the climactic third century, which witnessed the rise of many powerful Roman Arabs such as the Empresses of the Severan Dynasty, Emperor Philip, and the two rulers of Palmyra, Odenathus and Zenobia. Philip the Arab, the author argues, was the first Christian Roman emperor and Abgar the Great (ca. 200 A.D.) was the first Near Eastern ruler to adopt Christianity. In addition to political and military matters, the author also discusses Arab cultural contributions, pointing out the role of the Hellenized and Romanized Arabs in the urbanization of the region and in the progress of Christianity, particularly in Edessa under the Arab Abgarids.

Open Access Manuscripts Collection: Manuscripts in the Libraries of the Greek and Armenian Patriarchates in Jerusalem

 Manuscripts in the Libraries of the Greek and Armenian Patriarchates in Jerusalem 
1009 manuscripts digitized by Library of Congress from the set of microfilms.

"As Jerusalem, the location of Christ’s Passion, has been central to the Christian religion since its inception, all the early churches sought a presence in that storied and holy city. The Greek Orthodox Church and the Armenian Apostolic Church, for example, both maintain ancient patriarchates in Jerusalem and both have created renowned libraries in them..."

 Languages:

• Greek, Ancient (to 1453) 399
• Greek 270
• Georgian 125
• Arabic 96
• Armenian 32
• Syriac 27
• Geez 20
• Slavic Languages 20
• English 9
• Turkish, Ottoman (1500 to 1928) 8
• More Languages   

 See also: Alphabetical List of Open Access Islamic Manuscripts Collections

Open Access Manuscripts Collection: Manuscripts in St. Catherine's Monastery, Mount Sinai

 Manuscripts in St. Catherine's Monastery, Mount Sinai
1694 manuscripts digitized by Library of Congress from the set of microfilms.

"The renowned Eastern Orthodox Monastery of St. Catherine’s on Mt. Sinai was constructed by the Byzantine Emperor, Justinian I, in the late sixth century AD over the relics of the martyred saint and the place of the biblical burning bush as identified by St. Helena, the mother of the Roman Emperor, Constantine.  It is home to reputedly the oldest continuously run library in existence today. Its holdings of religious and secular manuscripts are legendary and allegedly second only in number to the collection held by the Vatican: from bibles, to patristic works, to liturgies and prayers books, and on to legal documents such as deeds, court cases, Fatwahs (legal opinions).  The greater proportion of the manuscripts were copied in Greek, and then in Syriac, Georgian, Coptic, Armenian, Arabic, Ottoman Turkish, and Ethiopic, as well as Old Church Slavonic..."


Languages:

• Greek, Ancient (to 1453) 1,081
• Arabic 308
• Syriac 156
• Georgian 85
• Old Church Slavonic 43
• Old Bulgarian 43
• Church Slavonic 43
• Old Slavonic 43
• Church Slavic 43
• English 6
• More Languages  

See also: Alphabetical List of Open Access Islamic Manuscripts Collections

Scribes of the Cairo Geniza Crowdsource Project

Scribes of the Cairo Geniza

The purpose of phase I of Scribes of the Cairo Geniza is to sort Cairo Geniza fragments in order to prepare them for transcription in phase II (launching Spring 2018). In this phase, you will sort fragments into different categories based on their script types: whether they are written in Hebrew or Arabic scripts and formal or informal scripts, and whether they contain specific visual characteristics.

This information offers clues to the type of text a fragment contains. Having this information for the entire corpus will allow us to sort the fragments into workflows for the transcription tasks in phase II. For more on the characteristics you’ll be looking for and what they can tell us, see the Field Guide.

The results from Scribes of the Cairo Geniza have the potential to rewrite the history of the premodern Middle East, Mediterranean and Indian Ocean trade, and the Jewish diaspora. Until now, most of the information has remained locked away in undeciphered manuscript fragments; less than one-third of the 350,000 items have been catalogued in the 120 years that the cache has been known to exist. Virtually all scholars who have studied these texts have come away with a transformed sense of the history of the region and the long ties of intimacy among its people. Students and the general public will have the opportunity to benefit from encountering these fragments online and from learning how to sort and eventually transcribe them as members of this citizen scientist community. We see this project as a way for people with shared interests and different skill levels from around the world to meet in a common endeavor and unlock this storage chamber of ancient fragments.

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Open Access Books from Brill Publishers

 

Tense and Text in Classical Arabic : A Discourse-oriented Study of the Classical Arabic Tense System
Author: Michal Marmorstein

Publisher:     Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2017.
Series: Studies in Semitic Languages and Linguistics , vol. 85
eISBN:     9789004310483 

Islamic Reformism and Christianity : A Critical Reading of the Works of Muḥammad Rashīd Riḍā and His Associates (1898-1935)
Author: U. Ryad
Publisher:     Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2009.
Series:  The History of Christian-Muslim Relations , vol. 12
E - ISBN : 9789047441465

The Mongols and the Armenians (1220-1335)
Author: Bayarsaikhan Dashdondog
Publisher:     Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2010.
Series:  Brill's Inner Asian Library, vol. 24
E-ISBN : 9789004192119

The Ottoman Crimean War (1853-1856)
Author: C. Badem
Publisher:     Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2010.
Series:  The Ottoman Empire and its Heritage, v. 44
E - ISBN : 9789004190962

Principles of Islamic International Criminal Law : A Comparative Search
Author: F. Malekian
Publisher:     Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2011
Series:  Brill's Arab and Islamic Laws Series, vol. 5
E - ISBN : 9789004203976

Crafts of Syria

Crafts of Syria

"... Many of the monuments and archaeological sites have been looted, with some deliberately destroyed during the conflict. The crafts are another significant component of the rich cultural heritage of Syria, and this site is intended to preserve information on aspects of traditional manufacturing practices of urban and rural areas. It is hoped that this will be a resource for students and researchers working on the material cultures and socio-economic life of Syria and the surrounding regions of the Middle East.
This site is organized according to the cities, towns, and other settlements of modern Syria. Within each of these you will find primary written sources, secondary historical studies, ethnographic and archaeological research, and photographs that provide evidence for craft activities conducted in these locations across Syria from the seventh century to the present. The site will also be complemented by a range of resources designed to aid in the study of the craft traditions of this region. Some are already available on the site, and others will be added soon. These comprise: essays dealing with specific aspects of the crafts of Islamic Syria, links to related archives and collections, maps, short biographies of major primary sources, a glossary of technical terms, and a bibliography."

PAVONe: Platform of the Arabic Versions of the New Testament

PAVONe: Platform of the Arabic Versions of the New Testament

Since 2012 our Digital Humanities Centre at the University of Balamand has been developing an online database for the Arabic text of the Gospels. The database is accessible online and it's open for scholars.

The database contains the following sections/services:

1. The "About" section: It includes a presentation of the project and the methodology used.
2. The "Manuscripts" section: It allows the user to browse the Gospels manuscripts transcribed in the database. Two browsing modalities are offered: the first one allows the scholar to visualize the manuscripts in their geographical location using a geotagging feature; the second one allows the filtration of the manuscripts by a variety of parameters (date, language...). Both modalities lead to the same resources and give the researcher the possibility of displaying some codicological and paleographical properties of the manuscripts and their content as well.
3. The "Lectionary" section: It gives the liturgical structure of the lectionary as used by the Rum Orthodox Church and allows the researcher to browse the corresponding pericopes in the lectionary manuscripts. All the transcribed texts are published with a copy of the manuscript containing the reading. This allows the scholar to examine the original digital photo of the text and to compare it with our reading.
4. The "Citations" section: In this section, we identified all the citations and allusions of the Gospels verses in the literature produced by Christians and Muslims in the first millennium. We limited our sources to the works mentioned in  the monumental work: "Christian-Muslim Relations. A Bibliographical History". This section enables the researchers to browse all these citations and allusions and to compare them with their parallels in the lectionaries and/or continuous texts of the Gospels.
5. The "Search" section: this module allows the researcher to look for a specific verse in all the contents of the database regardless of the type of the source. The user can search, for example, for a verse in the "Muslim-Christian citations" and lectionaries at the same time...

Photorientalist: A website dedicated to exhibiting 19th and 20th century photographs of the Middle East and North Africa

Photorientalist: A website dedicated to exhibiting 19th and 20th century photographs of the Middle East and North Africa

Photorientalist.org is a website created by Norbert Schiller to exhibit 19th and 20th century photography from the Middle East and North Africa. The site is not limited to his collection, but open as a venue for other collectors to share their treasures.

Photographic exhibitions will be regularly displayed on the website. These exhibitions are open for contributions from parties who share a similar interest in historic images from the Middle East. 
 
Contributions may be submitted in the form of information or photographs that complement featured themes or topics. All submissions will be appropriately credited. The website’s success depends on valuable contributions by interested parties.

If you want to share photographs that are relevant to exhibitions on Photorientalist.org or have exhibition ideas, please contact me at nschiller@photorientalist.org.

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Open Access Journal Archive: بابا شمل = Bābā Shamal = Bābā Šamal 1322-1323/26 [1943-1944/47]

Title: بابا شمل = Bābā Shamal = Bābā Šamal   1322-1323/26  [1943-1944/47]
Published: Tihrān : Kitābhānah-i Muẓāhirī, 1943-
Editor: Ganjihʼī, Riz̤ā, 1911 or 1912-1995 or 1996.

Alphabetical List of Open Access Historical Newspapers and Other Periodicals in Middle East & Islamic Studies

Open Access Journal Archive: شكوفه = Shukūfah = Shokufeh = Šukūfa = Shekoofeh 1331-1334 [1912-1915]

Title: شكوفه = Shukūfah = Shokufeh = Šukūfa = Shekoofeh
Published : Tihrān: 1331-1334 [1912-1915]
Editor: Maryam Amid Mozayen ol-Saltaneh

Alphabetical List of Open Access Historical Newspapers and Other Periodicals in Middle East & Islamic Studies

Open Access Records from the Library of Congress

Library Offers Largest Release of Digital Catalog Records in History 25 Million Free Records of Bibliographic Metadata

"The Library of Congress announced today that it is making 25 million records in its online catalog available for free bulk download at loc.gov/cds/products/marcDist.php. This is the largest release of digital records in the Library’s history.
The records also will be easily accessible at data.gov, the open-government website hosted by the General Services Administration (GSA). Until now, these bibliographic records have only been available individually or through a paid subscription."



A combined LC bibliographic set is available from https://github.com/reeset/lc_data_dump

Open Access Newspaper Archive: الشورى = al-Shūrá = Ashoura (1924-1931)

الشورى = al-Shūrá = Ashoura  (1924-1931)

Edited by: Ṭāhir, Muḥammad ʻAlī.


"Published from October 1924 to August 1931, when Egyptian authorities acting on behalf of the British colonial administration cancelled its license, the “Ashoura” newspaper, which means “consultation” in Arabic, became the flagship of Eltaher’s national and intellectual activism, whence his office came to be called “Dar Ashoura”, or Ashoura House.
Two issues of “Ashoura” were published under a completely different name, possibly following a short ban on the newspaper. On March 26 and April 5, 1928 “Ashoura” appeared under the name “Al-Nas” (The people), with a license belonging to the Egyptian journalist Hussein Shafiq Al-Masri."

Alphabetical List of Open Access Historical Newspapers and Other Periodicals in Middle East & Islamic Studies

Open Access Newspaper Archive: الشباب = al-Shabāb (1937 - 1939)

 الشباب = al-Shabāb  (1937 - 1939)
Edited by: Ṭāhir, Muḥammad ʻAlī.

"The “Ashoura” newspaper license was suspended by the Government of Egypt from August 1931 until January 1937. That same year Dr. Mahmoud Azmi, offered his newspaper, “Al-Shabab”, i.e. Youth, to Eltaher free of charge “... so that he could resume publishing his nationalist views”. Eltaher published “Al-Shabab” from February 1937 until April 1939 when its license was again suspended by Egyptian authorities acting on behalf of the British colonial administration."

Alphabetical List of Open Access Historical Newspapers and Other Periodicals in Middle East & Islamic Studies

Open Access Newspaper Archive: العلم المصري = al-ʻAlam al-Miṣrī = Al-Alam Al-Masri (1939)

 العلم المصري = al-ʻAlam al-Miṣrī = Al-Alam Al-Masri (1939)
Edited by: Ṭāhir, Muḥammad ʻAlī.


"After “Al-Shabab” was suspended, the Egyptian journalist Abdelqader El-Toumi offered his newspaper, “Al-Alam Al-Masri”, i.e. The Egyptian Flag, to Eltaher free of charge so that he could resume publishing his nationalist views.
“Al-Alam Al-Masri” was published from April 1939 until August 1939, when Eltaher stopped publishing it on the eve of World War II and the imposition of emergency measures in Egypt.
In 1953 the Government of Egypt under General Mohamed Naguib reinstated the publication license of “Ashoura”, but the Ministry of the Interior, which was under Colonel Gamal Abdel-Nasser, who was also Deputy Prime Minister, still prohibited Eltaher from publishing it. He never published any newspaper after that."

Alphabetical List of Open Access Historical Newspapers and Other Periodicals in Middle East & Islamic Studies

Open Access Newspaper Archive: القدس = al-Quds = al-Kouds (1908-1914)

القدس = al-Quds = al-Kouds (1908-1914)

"The Center for Palestine Studies (CPS) at Columbia is proud to launch, in conjunction with the Institute for Palestine Studies in Ramallah, the archives of this forgotten gem over a century after its birth in Jerusalem. Established in 1908 by Jurji Habib Hanania (1864-1920), al-Quds became the first privately owned public daily newspaper in Palestine."

See also: Jurji Habib Hanania: History of the Earliest Press in Palestine, 1908-1914

Alphabetical List of Open Access Historical Newspapers and Other Periodicals in Middle East & Islamic Studies

Open Access E-book: Galeni in Hippocratis Epidemiarum Librum II Commentariorum I-VI Versio Arabica

Title: Galeni in Hippocratis Epidemiarum Librum II Commentariorum I-VI Versio Arabica
Published: Boston : Walter De Gruyter Incorporated June 2016
Editor: Vagelpohl, Uwe.
611 pages.
ISBN: 9783110463989

This volume offers the first critical edition of the Arabic translation of Galen's Commentary on Book 2 of the Hippocratic Epidemics. It follows the edition of Galen's Commentary on Book 1 published previously in this series. The Arabic text is accompanied by an English translation and extensive indices. The introduction outlines the history of the Greek and Arabic text and discusses the authorship, dating, and style of the Arabic translation.

See also: Galeni In Hippocratis Epidemiarum librum I commentariorum I-III versio Arabica

Open Access E-book: Water security in the Middle East : essays in scientific and social cooperation

Title: Water security in the Middle East : essays in scientific and social cooperation
Edited by Cahan, Jean Axelrad.
Published: London ; New York, NY : Anthem Press, 2016.
215 pages.
ISBN: 9781783085668

Open Access E-book: The Qur'an seminar = Le Qur'an seminar

 
Title: The Qur'an seminar = Le Qur'an seminar : commentary a collaborative study of 50 Qur'anic passages = commentaire collaboratif de 50 passages coraniques
Published : Berlin, [Germany] ; Boston, [Massachusetts] : De Gruyter, 2016.
487 pages

ISBN:  9783110445909


The work includes commentary on fifty Qurʾānic passages including:

– Q 1, al-Fatiha
– Q 2:30-39, the angelic prostration before Adam
– Q 2:255, the “Throne Verse”
– Q 3:7, the muhkamat and mutashabihat
– Q 4:3, polygamy and monogamy
– Q 5:112-15, the table (al-ma’ida) from heaven
– Q 9:29, fighting the People of the Book and the jizya
– Q 12, the story of Joseph
– Q 24:45, the “Light Verse”
– Q 33:40, the “seal of the prophets”
– Q 53, the “satanic verses”
– Q 96, including the passage often described as the “first revelation”
– Q 97, the “night of qadr”
– Q 105, the “Companions of the Elephant”
– Q 112, on God and the denial of a divine son

Open Access Journal Archive: Hespéris Tamuda (1921-2009)

Title: Hespéris Tamuda
Published : Rabat : Editions techniques nord-africaines, 1960-
Frequency : Annual
ISSN : 0018-1005
Text in: Arabic, Spanish, French, English



Hespéris began in 1921 as a merger between two older serials, "Archives Berberes" and the Bulletin of l'Institut des Hautes-Études Marocaines. In 1960, it merged with another serial, "Tamuda", to become "Hespéris-Tamuda",


See also: Alphabetical List of Open Access Historical Newspapers and Other Periodicals in Middle East & Islamic Studies

The Bavarian Air Force World War I Aerial Photography of Palestine = Bayerisches Hauptstaatsarchiv: Bildsammlung Palästina

 
The Bavarian Air Force World War I Aerial Photography of Palestine = Bayerisches Hauptstaatsarchiv: Bildsammlung Palästina

"The 2,872 photographs, comprising both aerial and ground photographs that are
now available on the website of the Central State Archive of the Bavarian State Office
for Surveying, constitute an important resource for the study of many aspects of the
landscape of Palestine and other territories at the end of Ottoman rule in the region.
These photographs offer an overview of the region’s topography as it was almost one
hundred years ago, and as such are of great significance to geographers, historians, and
researchers working on urban cultural history "

See also: Mapping Palestine: The Bavarian Air Force WWI Aerial Photography

Arabic Almanac App

Arabic Almanac App
By Omar Jahangir

Description 

Arabic Almanac is a digital version of the famous Hans Wehr dictionary. You can search through the dictionary by using the root letter of the word and the app will display the corresponding page from the Hans Wehr dictionary. This app was developed to aid students of the Arabic Language in their noble pursuit. The app will remove the need of carrying around a bulky dictionary and replace it with the convenience of your smartphone. Now you have access to all the same information, but at the comfort of your fingertips. The dictionary can be searched using an Arabic keyboard, or if you do not have an Arabic keyboard the dictionary can be searched using Roman (English) letters which have an Arabic equivalent. Feel free to add any comments/improvements by emailing arabic.almanac@gmail.com This app could not have been made without the immense contribution from E.Taal and U.Iqbal. I pray that Allah (swt) reward them and their families for their contribution to this app. Please also remember this developer and his family in your duas. ...More Arabic Almanac Support 

What's New in Version 1.3

Salaams all! A few updates for Arabic Almanac. •Removed the “loading” that would appear at the end of the pag

• Free
• Category: Education
• Updated: Oct 10, 2016
• Version: 1.3
• Size: 82.6 MB
• Language: English
• Seller: Omar Jahangir
• © Omar Jahangir

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Compatibility: Requires iOS 8.0 or later. Compatible with iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch

Open Access Repository of the Katedra Arabistyki i Islamistyki Uniwersytetu Warszawskiego

Open Access Repository of the Katedra Arabistyki i Islamistyki Uniwersytetu Warszawskiego

Katedra Arabistyki i Islamistyki Uniwersytetu Warszawskiego jest największym centrum badań w zakresie arabistyki i islamistyki w Polsce. Z początku arabistyka w Instytucie Orientalistycznym UW była połączona z pokrewnymi dziedzinami – turkologią i iranistyką. Dzięki staraniom J. Bielawskiego w 1964 roku została powołana Katedra Arabistyki, a co za tym idzie, arabistyka uzyskała samodzielny byt. Po licznych przekształceniach jednostka została ponownie przemianowana na Katedrę Arabistyki i Islamistyki w 2009 roku i obecnie jest jedną z trzech największych jednostek naukowych Wydziału Orientalistycznego UW.

Przy Katedrze działa największa biblioteka arabistyczno-islamoznawcza w Polsce, która gromadzi publikacje nie tylko z zakresu arabistyki i islamistyki, ale również pokrewnych specjalizacji orientalistycznych oraz nauk pomocniczych. Katedra prowadzi studia w zakresie arabistyki i islamistyki. Nabór odbywa się rokrocznie, a od roku 2007/2008 wprowadzony został podział na studia pierwszego i drugiego stopnia. W następnym roku rozpoczęto również nabór na studia niestacjonarne (wieczorowe) pierwszego stopnia. W Katedrze Arabistyki i Islamistyki studiują także doktoranci Wydziału Orientalistycznego UW, którzy prowadzą badania literaturoznawcze oraz językoznawcze z zakresu arabistyki i islamistyki.

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• Studia Arabistyczne i Islamistyczne / Arabic and Islamic Studies [87]

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  Machut-Mendecka, Ewa (Uniwersytet Warszawski, Katedra Arabistyki i Islamistyki, 2016)

  Świat arabski jest żywiołowy, jego mieszkańcy nie żałują gestów, ruchów i mimiki, przy pomocy których zwracają się nieustannie do otoczenia i rozmówców, dając upust emocjom. To zachowanie wynika z postawy ...

• „Czy możemy poprawiać i kształtować nasze ciała poprzez sport?” – ciało a sport w kulturze muzułmańskiej 

  Pachniak, Katarzyna (Uniwersytet Warszawski, Katedra Arabistyki i Islamistyki, 2016)

  Islam reguluje i normuje każdą sferę życia, zatem również dla wszelkiej aktywności związanej z szeroko rozumianym sportem muzułmanie starali się, i nadal starają, znaleźć podstawy w religii. Szukają ich poprzez ...

• Ciało w kulturze muzułmańskiej 

  Pachniak, Katarzyna; Nowaczek-Walczak, Magdalena (Uniwersytet Warszawski, Katedra Arabistyki i Islamistyki, 2016)

  Praca została podzielona na cztery umowne części, omawiające różne aspekty cielesności, chociaż większość artykułów trudno zamknąć w ramkach określonych kategorii. W pierwszej, zatytułowanej „Ciało w procesie ...

• Azja i Afryka: religie - kultury - języki 

  Klimiuk, Maciej (Wydział Orientalistyczny, Uniwersytet Warszawski, 2013)

  Książka Azja i Afryka. Religie – kultury – języki jest publikacją zbiorową, o charakterze naukowym. Przedstawia dokonania najmłodszych badaczy, skupionych wokół Wydziału Orientalistycznego Uniwersytetu Warszawskiego. W ...

• Flavorings in Context: Spices and Herbs in Medieval Near East 

  Lewicka, Paulina B. (Rocznik Orientalistyczny, 2011)

  Throughout history, the approach towards imported spices varied from culture to culture. In medieval and early post-medieval Europe, where spices became an exotic object of temporary desire, they were often used unskillfully ...

• The Doctrine of muḫammisa according to Muslim Heresiography 

  Pachniak, Katarzyna (Rocznik Orientalistyczny, 2011)

  The article presents the doctrine of muẖammisa according to Muslim heresiography. The muḫammisa is one of ġulāt groups. This term is applied to groups accused of exaggeration (ġuluww) in religion and has covered a lot of ...

• Al-Ǧāḥiẓ and ‘Abd al-Ǧabbār on the Necessity of Imamate. A Note on the Fate of Mu‘tazilite Political Ideas 

  Danecki, Janusz (Rocznik Orientalistyczny, 2011)

  The article is devoted to some aspects of the political theory of the eminent Arab thinker Al-Ǧāḥiẓ (d. 869), especially in the context of his influence on later generations of religious and political thinkers, in this ...

• The Grammatical Treatise Al-Mufaṣṣal fī ṣan‘at al-i‘rāb of Abū al-Qāsim az-Zamaḫšarī (Died 1144 A.D.) – a Masterpiece of Arab Grammar 

  Grodzki, Marcin (Rocznik Orientalistyczny, 2011)

  Abū al-Qāsim az-Zamaḫšarī’s (1075–1144) grammatical treatise Al-Mufaṣṣal fī ṣan‘at al-i‘rāb is one of the main and most acknowledged philological masterpieces of the classical Arabic. The aim of this article is to shed ...

• Šawqī Ḍayf (1910–2005). Biography, Method, Bibliography 

  Dziekan, Marek M. (Rocznik Orientalistyczny, 2011)

  The Article contains a biography and full bibliography of an eminent Egyptian scholar in the field of literature and linguistics, Šawqī Ḍayf.

• A Bibliography of the Works of Professor Krystyna Skarżyńska-Bocheńska 

  Dziekan, Marek M. (Rocznik Orientalistyczny, 2011)

  The bibliography of the works of Professor Krystyna Skarżyńska-Bocheńska.

• The Ways of Expression of Cultural Norms in the Egyptian Dialect 

  Machut-Mendecka, Ewa (Rocznik Orientalistyczny, 2011)

  In this paper I am going to present the ways in which the Egyptian dialect renders social norms, which will be illustrated by the examples of expressions regarding human- to-human interaction. This provides an outline of ...

• A Bibliography of the Works of Professor Danuta Madeyska 

  Dziekan, Marek M. (Rocznik Orientalistyczny, 2011)

  The bibliography of the works of Professor Danuta Madeyska.

• Professor Krystyna Skarżyńska-Bocheńska 

  Wrona, Barbara (Rocznik Orientalistyczny, 2011)

• Professor Danuta Madeyska 

  Wrona, Barbara (Rocznik Orientalistyczny, 2011)

• Sīrat al-Ǧāḥiẓ. Volume in Honour of Krystyna Skarżyńska-Bocheńska and Danuta Madeyska 

  Dziekan, Marek M.; Pachniak, Katarzyna; Lewicka, Paulina B. (Rocznik Orientalistyczny, 2011)

  Volume in Honour of Prof. Krystyna Skarżyńska-Bocheńska and Prof. Danuta Madeyska, Department of Arabic and Islamic Studies, Faculty of Oriental Studies, University of Warsaw.

• An Alternative Insight into the First Centuries of Islam
on the Iberian Peninsula – Problems of Historiographic Sources Concerning the Early Islamic History of Al-Andalus 

  Grodzki, Marcin (Rocznik Orientalistyczny, 2012)

  The stream of historical revisionism within the Orientalist scholarship has offered in recent years a number of intriguing theories attempting to undermine some of the conventional concepts of the Arab-Muslim early history ...

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  Parzymies, Anna (Studia Arabistyczne i Islamistyczne, 1996)

  En avril 1996 le pape Jean Paul II a effectué une visite officielle en Tunisie. Après le Maroc, la Tunisie a été le deuxième pays de l’Afrique du Nord où s’est rendu le Souverain Pontife. Dans son discours devant le pape, ...

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  Jamsheer, Hassan (Studia Arabistyczne i Islamistyczne, 1996)

  The Gulf conflict of 1990/1991 was not an incidental event, but the climax in a long chain of events. The deeper causes have their historical, ideological, political, economic and psychological roots. In general, the causes ...

• Egypt’s Arabism: Aḥmad Ḥasan az-Zayyāt: From Islam’s Community to the wide Pan-Arab Nation in the 1930s and 1940s 

  Walker, Dennis (Studia Arabistyczne i Islamistyczne, 1996)

  Az-Zayyāt often felt strong supra-Arab Islamic community emotions in topical contemporary contexts and perpetuated themes about pristine classical Islam from the old pre-World War I type of political pan-Islamism in Egypt. ...

• Searching for the origins of things. On the ‘ilm al-awā’il in the culture of the Arabic Middle Ages 

  Dziekan, Marek M. (Studia Arabistyczne i Islamistyczne, 1996)

  It is not certain, either, if knowledge of the origins was treated, in Arabic culture, as a separate branch of knowledge or as an element of history or adab literature. Works as Kitāb al-awā’il by Al-‘Askarī or Al-Wasā’il ...

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