جرائد Jara'id : A Chronology of Nineteenth Century Periodicals in Arabic (1800-1900): A Research Tool

[First posted in AMIR1 September 2012, updated (New URLs) 29 December 2020]

جرائد Jara'id : A Chronology of Nineteenth Century Periodicals in Arabic (1800-1900): A Research Tool

2020 Edition 

Contributions from Hala Auji, Philippe Chevrant, Marina Demetriadou, Lamia Eid, Stacy Fahrenthold, Till Grallert, Rana Issa, Nicole Khayat, Peter Magierski, Leyla von Mende, Adam Mestyan, Christian Meier, Daniel Newman, Geoffrey Roper, Sinai Rusinek, Philip Sadgrove, Ola Seif, and Rogier Visser

Prepared and supervised by Adam Mestyan 

Original 2012 Edition TEI XML-Markup, digital publication, concept and design of the website by Till Grallert 

2020 Edition: Data addition, CETEICean transformation, digital publication, and design of the website by Adam Mestyan and Till Grallert; 

XSLT by Hugh Cayless and Till Grallert 

Advisor to 2020 Edition (CETEICean, JS, XSLT): Hugh Cayless 

Advisor to 2020 Edition (Visualization): Eric Monson 

This database and website are under the Creative Commons copyright of Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International (CC BY-NC 4.0) 

This website uses CETEICEan by Hugh Cayless and Raffaele Viglianti to display the umodified TEI file in HTML 

Introductory Notes 

This website provides a chronology of Arabic periodicals between 1800 and 1929. 

Although it is meant to include all periodicals published in Arabic or in Arabic and in another language (such as the usual pair of Arabic and Ottoman Turkish) or in Arabic written in a different script (such as Judeo-Arabic) during the period from 1800 to 1929, this chronology is certainly incomplete.  Furthermore, there remain numerous problems with dating and locating individual publications as well as identifying their owners, editors, or publishers. 

Thus, at the moment we consciously publish a working draft with the purpose of making our information available to the scholarly community. We welcome all readers to submit any comment, corrections, and new data using Adam Mestyan's official email address. We would like to ask all contributors to always refer to the ID of each title – in case of comments on existing entries – and cite their sources, as otherwise we cannot consider the submission for being included in the table. Every contribution will be acknowledged. 

We chose to present the core data as a table containing information on titles, dates of first and last issue published, place(s) of publication, names of publishers and editors, language(s) of publication, and available collections (so far only in English/transliteration but Arabic indexes are coming as well). In addition, we provide various indexes of holding institutions and locations, as well as a bibliography of the most important secondary sources and available union catalogues. To search any part of the website, simply the browser's search function should be invoked (Ctrl-F for Windows, Cmd-F for Mac OSX). 

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History of Istanbul : from Antiquity to the 21st century

 History of Istanbul : from Antiquity to the 21st century

"This website is designed for the dissemination of History of Istanbul from Antiquity to XXIst century, a work prepared by the cooperation of Türkiye Diyanet Foundation Center for Islamic Studies (İSAM) and İstanbul Metropolitan Municipality Kültür ve Sanat Ürünleri A.Ş.

The Project for the preparation of the Turkish version of the work was launched in late 2012, and completed and published in 2015. The book was prepared the­matically and composed of around 355 articles written by nearly 260 scientists about different fields such as topography, architecture, religious and social life, management, economics. In this book which consists of 10 volumes, nearly 5300 pages, around 4 thousand visual materials such as maps, miniatures, engravings, paintings, and archive documents were used. The English translation of the work was completed in 2019 and not published yet. It is accessible online..."

New OA Book: Muslim Women’s Pilgrimage to Mecca and Beyond Reconfiguring Gender, Religion, and Mobility

 

Muslim Women’s Pilgrimage to Mecca and Beyond
Reconfiguring Gender, Religion, and Mobility

Edited By: Marjo Buitelaar, Manja Stephan-Emmrich, Viola Thimm

Edition1st Edition
First Published2020
eBook Published15 November 2020
Pub. location London
Imprint Routledge
DOIhttps://doi.org/10.4324/9781003110903
Pages222 pages
eBook ISBN9781003110903

This book investigates female Muslims pilgrimage practices and how these relate to women’s mobility, social relations, identities, and the power structures that shape women’s lives. Bringing together scholars from different disciplines and regional expertise, it offers in-depth investigation of the gendered dimensions of Muslim pilgrimage and the life-worlds of female pilgrims. With a variety of case studies, the contributors explore the experiences of female pilgrims to Mecca and other pilgrimage sites, and how these are embedded in historical and current contexts of globalisation and transnational mobility. This volume will be relevant to a broad audience of researchers across pilgrimage, gender, religious, and Islamic studies.

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New OA resource: al-sharekh archive

"AlSharekh Archive: 228 Arabic journals, 277,000 articles by 46,281 writers 

Access to the archive is open to all via the AlSharekh Archive website https://archive.alsharekh.org 

AlSharekh Archive from Sakhr, is one of the most distinguished Arabic digitization initiatives. It is the first and only one to focus on the content of literary journals providing online access to the content of 228 Arabic literary journals, from 23 Arab countries, dating from the early Arab renaissance (al Nahda) in the mid-nineteenth century to the end of the twenty-first century. 

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The AlSharekh Archive s’ site is very easy to use and navigate. Users can browse the journal issues or search the metadata indexes of the articles. Journal articles are viewed as images and have not been converted into digital texts because of difficulties in Arabic OCR. 

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● Articles are accessed in their original form as in the print issues. 

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Fatme Charafeddine, American University of Beirut"

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 "Uyghurkitap, an online digital collection of Uyghur documents, is now open to public.
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Visit the website here.

New OA Resource: Middle East Women's Activism (SOAS Digital Collections)

"Middle East Women’s Activism digital archive is a collection of interviews with 96 women of different generations in Egypt, Jordan and Lebanon, which form the basis of a monograph, entitled, Embodying Geopolitics: Generations of Women’s Activism in Egypt, Jordan and Lebanon. All interviews were conducted by Nicola Pratt, University of Warwick, in 2013-2014 as part of a British Academy Mid-Career Fellowship exploring the relationship between gender and geopolitics in the context of the Middle East. The research received approval from the University of Warwick Humanities and Social Sciences Research Ethics Committee and consent was given at the time of interview to make this material publicly available. 

The archive will be of interest to researchers in the fields of gender studies and post-independence social history in Egypt, Jordan and Lebanon. The interviews consist of women’s personal narratives of their family background and education, how they became involved in public work (al-‘amal al-‘am), information about their activism and how it has changed over time and the impact of/their involvement in major national events, amongst other details." More.

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