In October 2014, the Oman Library at the Middle East Institute (MEI) received a grant from Saudi Aramco designated to initiate a digitization of the library’s rare collection. This is the first project of its kind for MEI and the Oman Library. The digitization project utilizes a high quality resolution scanner and aims to digitize and make hundreds of materials available for online use by scholars and researchers from around the globe.
The Oman Library’s online collection is a web-based digital collection of the library’s rare books and manuscripts, consisting entirely of subjects related to Middle Eastern Studies. The topics of the rare collection range from history and culture to works of fiction from the early twentieth century. The collection includes materials in seven different languages -- English, Arabic, French, Farsi, Urdu, Ottoman Turkish, and Turkish -- and publications spanning the period from 1700 to 1921. In addition to the rare collection, MEI has included in the digitalization process all of its own Middle East Institute published works that span from the 1960s to 2004, including its 1947 meeting memos.
Recently Added Books
al-Rihaniyyaat
1910Esrar-i cinayat
1301 [1883]Fifty-three years in Syria
[1910]The New Near East
1920Israel and the Palestine Arabs
1958 [c1956]al-sāʼilah al-ḥasnāʼ
[1909]The Middle East
1970Kitāb-i Maẓhar al-ajāʼib
1316 [1937]The New Near East
1921Dīwān ʻAntar
[approximately 1893]The Middle East
[1970-1979Hasib Sabbagh
c1996Iran's elections
[1997]Persian Gulf
1920Children of Persia
[1911]A survey of the Holy Land
[1843?]Mesopotamia
1917The Gulf and the peninsula
[1980?]Middle East report, 1959
[1959]Middle East resources
[1954]Constantinople
1900 [ 1921 printing]Mohammad in the Bible
[19--?]Kurdische Studien
1900The future of Iraq
c1997England in Egypt
1907A Palestine entity?
[1970]L'empire Ottoman
1901Mandate for Palestine
c1931US-Iran relations
1994The Persian Gulf
c1991Crisis in Lebanon
1961