Tuesday, November 8, 2011

Open Access Journal : as-Sikka السكة

First posted in AMIR on 26 December 2010,   as-Sikka السكة The Online Journal of The Islamic Coins Group is no longer available at the original website of The Islamic Coins Group. It remains accessible is several iterations at the IA Wayback Machine,  the most recent dating to 10 July 2011. Until and unless it turns up again on its own terms, I'll keep the link to the archive.



ISSN 1496-4414  
as-Sikka  has been established to promote the study of Islamic numismatics through the e-publication of research articles, review articles, communications, and shorter reviews and studies. It is designed to allow members of the Islamic Coins Group as well as other contributors, to participate in activating Islamic numismatic research in a free and easily accessible medium.
We have shed the traditional publishing methodology and publish One volume per year. This volume, however, will be continually added to, and updated throughout the year, and will become final when the year is done.


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Wednesday, November 2, 2011

Online Exhibit: The Graphics of Revolution and War

The Graphics of Revolution and War: Iranian Poster Art

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This permanent online exhibit was collaboratively produced with a loan exhibition of the University of Chicago's posters on display at the Indiana University Art Museum from October 15 to December 18, 2011 (http://themester.indiana.edu/events/poster.shtml). The posters in the Bloomington exhibition were generously lent by the Special Collections Research Center of the University of Chicago Library.

The Bloomington exhibition was made possible in part by funding from the Thomas T. Solley Endowed Fund for the Pamela Buell Curator of Asian Art, Themester 2011, IU Art Museum ARC Fund, and The Center for the Study of the Middle East. The exhibition was guest curated by Professor Christiane Gruber, University of Michigan, and her doctoral student Elizabeth Rauh. The organizing curator was Judy Stubbs, the IU Art Museum's Pamela Buell Curator of Asian Art.
The website was produced and designed by Elisabeth M. Long, co-director of the University of Chicago's Digital Library Development Center, and Brad Busenius, web and graphic design specialist.
The collection of Iranian revolutionary and wartime posters are held in the University of Chicago's Special Collections Research Center. After the 1979 Revolution, the posters were acquired by Dr. Paul Sprachman, then Persian bibliographer at the University of Chicago. Dr. Sprachman acquired the posters in 1981-1982 with Title IIC funding for the University of Chicago Library's acquisition program for Persian materials. Most of the Iranian posters held in the University of Chicago's collection were bought in Istanbul and Damascus. Others were purchased in London, Paris, Istanbul, Damascus, and various other places in Pakistan and India.

It is our understanding that the posters in this exhibit are not protected under U.S. copyright law.  To learn more about these and other posters held in the collection or to obtain information on ordering publication-quality images, please visit the Guide to the Middle Eastern Posters Collection 1970s-1990s.



Preserving and Creating Access to Unique Afghan Records, 1989-2006

Preserving and Creating Access to Unique Afghan Records, 1989-2006

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The University of Arizona Libraries (UAL) and the Afghanistan Centre at Kabul University (ACKU) are collaborating on a digitization project "Preserving and Creating Access to Unique Afghan Records".

ACKU's collection is the most extensive in the region covering a time of war and social upheaval in the country, with most of the documents in the principal languages of Pashto and Dari. The collection contains information related to history, social, economic, and cultural heritage of Afghanistan. This project is being funded from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH). About 2,800 titles (about 236,000 pages) are currently available.
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Open Accesss Journal: Da Afghanistan Kalanay

Da Afghanistan Kalanay
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Da Afghānistān kālanay = Sālnāmah-i Afghānistān

Da Afghanistan Kalanay also known as the Salnamah-i Afghanistan is an almanac and yearbook published by the Government of Afghanistan from 1932-1990 (1311-1369). Each volume covers political and economic history and activities of the country. Volumes 1, 1311 (1932) – v.8, 1318 (1939) and v.50, 1363-1364 (1984-85) were published under various names. For example, in volumes from 1932-35 it was called Salnamah-i Kabul; in 1934-35 it was called Annaire de Revue de Kaboul; in 1935-38 it was known as the Almanach de Kaboul (1935-38). Starting with 1333-1334 (1954-55), the title of this periodical changed to Da Afghanistan Kalanay.

Text are mostly in Dari/Persian and Pashto languages. Some issues have added title and some notes in English or French. This is a government publication and most of its volumes were published by Afghanistan Vizarat-I Ittlaat va Kultur. Some volumes were published by Pushto Tolana and Danishratu loy Mudiriyat. This government publication covers major government activities including economic and agricultural plans.



Tuesday, November 1, 2011

Open Access Bibliographies: Online Bibliography of Ottoman-Turkish Literature

Osmanlı Edebiyatı Bibliyografyası Veritabanı - The Online Bibliography of Ottoman-Turkish Literature
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The Online Bibliography of Ottoman-Turkish Literature

Osmanlı dönemi edebiyatı üzerine yapılmış ve yapılmakta olan tezler, kitaplar, makaleler, bildiriler ile projeleri içeren ve ücretsiz ulaşılabilen Osmanlı Edebiyatı Çalışmaları Bibliyografyası Veritabanı’na hoşgeldiniz. Türkçe ve İngilizce olarak iki dilde hazırlanan veritabanının İngilizcesi için İngilizce versiyon sayfasını ziyaret ediniz. 

Bu bibliyografya, Osmanlı dönemi edebiyatı uzmanlarının yanı sıra Ortadoğu ve modern öncesi edebiyatlar üzerine çalışanlar için de temel başvuru kaynağı olmayı amaçlamaktadır. Ziyaretçilerin kayıt girebilmesi mümkün olup, bütün akademisyen ve araştırmacılar, web sayfasında yer almayan çalışmaların künyelerini veritabanına girmeye davet edilmektedir. Girilen her yeni künye gözden geçirildikten sonra veritabanına eklenip kullanıma açılacaktır. 

Başlamak için Arama düğmesine ya da Gir tuşuna basınız. Bunlardan birini yaptığınızda bütün veritabanına ulaşacaksınız ve bu giriş sayfası otomatik olarak kaybolacaktır. Giriş sayfasını yeniden görmek için imlecinizle bu sayfayı tıklayınız. Bu site hakkında daha ayrıntılı bilgi almak isterseniz Bilgi bölümü sayfasını ziyaret edebilirsiniz. 

Bu sitenin İngilizce ve Türkçe versiyonlarının içeriği arasındaki sadece dil farkı sabit bilgilerde (etiketler, düğmeler gibi) bulunmakta olup, girilen künyenin dilinde bir çeviri yapılmamaktadır. Bu sitede JavaScript kullanılmakta olup, web tarayıcınız JavaScript desteklemiyorsa veritabanının işletilmesinde sorun çıkabilir. Site, çöreklere, ActiveX teknolojilerine veya dışardan gelebilecek JavaScript karşı gerekli güvenliğe sahiptir. Bu sitede, XHTML ve CSS kodları kullanılmıştır. 

Welcome to The Online Bibliography of Ottoman-Turkish Literature, a free and extensive database of references to theses, books, articles, papers and projects relating to research into Ottoman-Turkish culture. Please visit the Turkish version of this site if your first language is Turkish. 


The bibliography aims to serve as the principal reference for scholars working on Turkey and the Middle East, and for specialists studying other medieval and early/modern literatures. It is open also to record-submissions from visitors, and we invite all relevant scholars and researchers to post entries relating to their works. Such submissions become available publicly following review. 

To get started, click the Search button now or press the Enter key. This will retrieve the entire contents of the database, and will cause this introduction to disappear automatically. Please refresh this page in your browser should you wish to view this text again. Alternatively, you may wish to visit the Information section for detailed explanations of all aspects of this site. 

Note that the Turkish and English versions of this site differ in the language in which they deliver their static content (labels, button-legends, etc.), but not in the language in which a given record was submitted. Note also that this site employs JavaScript extensively, such that disabling JavaScript in your browser renders the database-functionality inoperable. Nevertheless, this site is verifiably safe in that it does not employ cookies, ActiveX technologies, or JavaScript from external sources. This site is encoded using valid XHTML and CSS throughout. 

Welcome to The Online Bibliography of Ottoman-Turkish Literature, a free and extensive database of references to theses, books, articles, papers and projects relating to research into Ottoman-Turkish culture. Please visit the Turkish version of this site if your first language is Turkish. 

The bibliography aims to serve as the principal reference for scholars working on Turkey and the Middle East, and for specialists studying other medieval and early/modern literatures. It is open also to record-submissions from visitors, and we invite all relevant scholars and researchers to post entries relating to their works. Such submissions become available publicly following review. 

To get started, click the Search button now or press the Enter key. This will retrieve the entire contents of the database, and will cause this introduction to disappear automatically. Please refresh this page in your browser should you wish to view this text again. Alternatively, you may wish to visit the Information section for detailed explanations of all aspects of this site. 

Note that the Turkish and English versions of this site differ in the language in which they deliver their static content (labels, button-legends, etc.), but not in the language in which a given record was submitted. Note also that this site employs JavaScript extensively, such that disabling JavaScript in your browser renders the database-functionality inoperable. Nevertheless, this site is verifiably safe in that it does not employ cookies, ActiveX technologies, or JavaScript from external sources. This site is encoded using valid XHTML and CSS throughout. 

This site was designed and developed exclusively by Richard Vaughan of Dodeca Technologies Ltd., a software development and training company based in South-West London in the UK. Dodeca provides continued development, maintenance and hosting for this site. 

With the exception of documents that are available for download from this site, and unless stated otherwise, all content on this site and within its underlying database is copyright © Professor Hatice Aynur 2010 all rights reserved. The copyright on documents that are available for download remains with the copyright holders of those documents. All software that comprises the implementation of this site is copyright © Dodeca Technologies Ltd 2010 all rights reserved.

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Friday, October 21, 2011

Digital library of Berber archives

Digital library of Berber archives
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A component of e-corpus
e-corpus is a collective digital library that catalogs and disseminates numerous documents: manuscripts, archives, books, journals, prints, audio recordings, video, etc.

This diverse platform presents cultural diversity worldwide and specifically in the Euro-Mediterranean region. e-corpus proposes a variety of themes and a large quantity of digital documents presented by numerous organizations and countries. Based on cutting edge technologies, e-corpus offers a simple and direct public access to a rich collection of resources.


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Wednesday, October 19, 2011

Open Access Journal: Sharqiyya

 [First posted in AMIR 6 January 2011. Updated 19 October 2011]

Sharqiyya


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Sharqiyya is a new E-journal in English published twice a year by MEISAI and the Department of Middle East  and African History at Tel Aviv University. The journal is edited by research students and invites faculty, graduate students, and independent scholars to take part in a new and unique undertaking in the field of Middle East and African studies and history.


Sharqiyya: Vol. 1 No.1, Fall 2010 
Sharqiyya: Special Issue - The Arab Spring, Fall 2011