It is an online bibliography covers all publication in Arabic which was published before 1960. The Bibliography has 60,000 records of sources in Arabic and Latin from The British Library, The National Library of Egypt, and The Library of Congress.
The collection covers all disciplines in the study of Islam, history, culture, language, philosophy, political studies, human societies, past and present, in the following countries: Morocco, Tunisia, Algeria, Libya, and Egypt, Lebanon, Syria, Iraq, Jordan, Kuwait, Turkey, Iran, Afghanistan, Bahrain, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, and Yemen.
Dates Covered: 2000 - current
Language: English
Types of Coverage: Full text articles
Index Islamicus indexes literature on Islam, the Middle East and the Muslim world. Records included in the database cover almost 100 years of publications on the world of Islam with work written about the Middle East and the Muslim areas of Asia and Africa, plus Muslim minorities elsewhere.
Dates Covered: 1906 - Current
Language: English
Type of Coverage: Index
A collection of over 150 English eBooks in the areas of Middle East and Islamic Studies.
Provides rare, digitized Arabic manuscripts from the Leiden University Library. It has rich Arabic content with over 300 digitized volumes in full color, resulting in over 500 Arabic texts. It can be searched in English or with Arabic transliteration.
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Broad databases, covering a wide variety of topics, are useful for interdisplinary research. These databases are a good place to begin your search on most topics.
A scholarly and multidisciplinary database containing full text for nearly 12,000 periodicals from Asia, Oceania, Europe and Latin America included. The combination of academic journals, magazines, periodicals, reports, books and videos meets the needs of scholars in virtually every discipline ranging from astronomy, anthropology, biomedicine, engineering, health, law and literacy to mathematics, pharmacology, women’s studies, zoology and more.
A multidisciplinary database providing complete archives of core scholarly journals in the humanities, social sciences and sciences which have been digitized, starting from the very first issues.
Dates Covered: 1800 - 2015
Language: English
Types of Coverage: Full text archive of articles from journals in several major collections
SAGE publishes more than 560 journals in Business, Humanities, Social Sciences, and Science, Technology and Medicine, including those of more than 245 learned societies and institutions.
Provides broad multidisciplinary subject with access to over 1000 journals and over 100 open access titles from Taylor & Francis and Routledge.
Dates Covered: 2011 - Current
Language: English
Types of Coverage: Full text Access
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