1900-present. Systematic and non-evaluative bibliographic index of research, policy and scholarly discourse on the countries and peoples of the Middle East, Central Asia, and North Africa.
This English language Zionist periodical (1904-1941) is an important source of knowledge about the Shanghai Jewish community in the years predating the establishment of the Jewish state and the role Jews of the time played in politics, science, and international trade.
Digital archive of U.S. State Department Central Classified Files on internal and foreign affairs of Afghanistan.
Includes documents relating to political & military affairs, socioeconomic matters, court proceedings & other legal documents cables sent & received by U.S. diplomatic personnel, reports & translations from foreign journals & newspapers, translations of high-level foreign government documents, and many other sources of information.
Original source material from the Foreign Office, Colonial Office, War Office and Cabinet Papers covering the period from the Anglo-Indian landing in Basra in 1914 through the British Mandate in Iraq of 1920-32 to the rise of Saddam Hussein in 1974.
Guide to historical records, personal papers, and family histories held in archives around the world
Contains nearly a million collection descriptions contributed by thousands of libraries, museums, and archives. A combination of brief descriptions derived from catalog records in the RLG Union Catalog, and more detailed archival finding aids harvested from the Internet, including those that conform to the EAD (Encoded Archival Description) format standard.
Digital collection of documents issued by the British Foreign and Colonial Offices.
The Confidential Print series was issued by the British Government between c. 1820 and 1970. The series originated out of a need to preserve the most important papers generated by the Foreign and Colonial Offices. These range from single-page letters or telegrams to comprehensive dispatches, investigative reports and texts of treaties. All items marked ‘Confidential Print’ were printed and circulated immediately to leading officials in the Foreign Office, to the Cabinet, and to heads of British missions abroad.
This collection, sourced from the National Archives, Kew, covers a broad sweep of history from c. 1839 to 1969, taking in the countries of the Arabian peninsula, the Levant, Iraq, Turkey and many of the former Ottoman lands in Europe, Iran, Afghanistan, Egypt and Sudan. It includes reports, dispatches, correspondence, descriptions of leading personalities, political summaries and economic analyses issued by the British Foreign and Colonial Offices.
Documents from the British Foreign Office for the history of the Middle East during the 1970s and early 1980s.
This collection includes diplomatic correspondence, minutes, reports, political summaries and personality profiles from the British Foreign Office Files for the years 1971-1981
The collection addresses the policies, economies, political relationships and significant events of every major Middle East power. Conflicts such as the Arab-Israeli War, the Lebanese Civil War and the Iranian Revolution are examined in detail, as are the military interventions and peace negotiations carried out by regional and foreign powers like the United States and Russia.
Commercial interests are also scrutinized, with in-depth analyses of Middle East nations’ economic stability and reviews of international arm sales policies. The activities of oil producing nations such as Saudi Arabia are closely monitored, with particular reference to the Gulf States and members of OPEC.
The collection is in three modules:
• Middle East, 1971-1974: The 1973 Arab-Israeli War and the Oil Crisis
• Middle East, 1975-1978: The Lebanese Civil War and the Camp David Accords
• Middle East, 1979-1981: The Iranian Revolution and the Iran-Iraq War (available early 2017)
Access is through the Archives Direct platform, and the collection may be cross-searched with other resources such as Confidential Print: Middle East, 1839-1969.
Original source material from the Foreign Office, Colonial Office, War Office and Cabinet Papers covering the period from the Anglo-Indian landing in Basra in 1914 through the British Mandate in Iraq of 1920-32 to the rise of Saddam Hussein in 1974.
Collection of 303 digital Arabic manuscript volumes from Leiden University Library.
This collection consists of the Arabic manuscripts of Joseph Justus Scaliger (d. 1609), Franciscus Raphelengius (d. 1597) and Jacobus Golius (d. 1667) from the Leiden University Library, one of Europe?s top repositories of Oriental manuscripts. These three collections are Leiden?s oldest core collections of Arabic manuscripts. The Golius collection is particularly famous for its manuscripts on Islamic science.In total 303 volumes were scanned in full color, resulting in 503 texts with metadata which are now available online in this collection.
140 volumes from the Warner Collection, totaling 45K+ pages of Ottoman Turkish, Arabic, and Persian texts. All these manuscripts were acquired by the great scholar Levinus Warner during his stay in Istanbul from 1644 until his death in 1665.
This selection from the famous Warner Legacy to the Leiden University Libraries includes one autograph (Codex Orientalis 432), ten unique manuscripts (Cod. Or. 498; 517; 801; 870; 1088; 1090; 1096; 1110; 1143; 1155; and 1175), and eleven manuscripts with unique parts (Cod. Or. 309; 333; 662; 697; 730; 765; 835; 870; 898; 917; and 923). Several manuscripts once belonged to famous owners; for example, Cod. Or. 1122 originates from the private library of the Ottoman polymath and historian Katib Celebi (d. 1657).
Books & eBooks
Books about Middle Eastern history can be found in the DS section of the library's main collection, specifically from DS 35.3 - DS 326. Remember that you can get books from the Ann Arbor campus sent to Flint through the Get This program.
