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- Early Arabic Printed Books from the British Library This link opens in a new windowEarly Arabic Printed Books from the British Library is the first full-text searchable digital library of early printed books in Arabic script. Covering religious literature, law, science, mathematics, astrology, alchemy, medicine, geography, travel, history, chronicles, and literature, and including European translations of Arabic works and Arabic translations of European books, it exemplifies the long exchange of ideas and learning between Europe and the Arabic-speaking world.
- NYU Arabic Collections OnlineA publicly available digital library of public domain Arabic language content. ACO currently provides digital access to 11,564 volumes across 6,813 subjects drawn from rich Arabic collections of distinguished research libraries.
- DAR (Bibliotheca Alexandrina)Search the digital collections of the modern Library of Alexandria, including over 17,000 Arabic books in free full text.
- Arabic and Middle Eastern Electronic Library (Yale)AMEEL is a Web-based portal and a digital collection of information for the study of the Middle East, including its history, culture, development, and contemporary face. Currently, AMEEL holds approximately 350,000 pages of full text, indexed and searchable in the language of publication including Arabic and Western scripts.
Bibliographies and other catalogs
Bibliographies
- Oxford Bibliographies Online: Islamic Studies This link opens in a new windowExamines the range of lived experiences and textual traditions of Muslims as they are articulated in various countries and regions throughout the world. This interdisciplinary field combines history, religion, philosophy, anthropology, Arabic language and literature, as well as literatures in other languages including Persian, Turkish, and Urdu. e.
These catalogs can be searched similar to the WU Libraries catalog with author, title, subject, and sometimes full-text searches. Materials not accessible through the library can be requested through Interlibrary Loan.
- HathiTrust Digital Library This link opens in a new windowHathiTrust is a partnership of academic & research institutions, offering a collection of millions of titles digitized from libraries around the world. Over 10 million volumes have been added to the library; of which more than 3.3 million are available full text.
More info about HathiTrust - WorldCat (FirstSearch Interface) This link opens in a new windowInformation about books, journal titles, videos, and materials in other formats owned by more than 15,000 U.S. and foreign libraries. DOES NOT INCLUDE JOURNAL ARTICLES.
