LibGuides: World History: Middle Eastern History

Journals & Scholarly Publications

Middle Eastern & Central Asian Studies
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.

Historical Newspapers and Periodicals

Jewish Studies (Brill Primary Sources)
Collections of Jewish printing and a Jewish newspaper in Shanghai.
Includes these collections:
- Hebrew and Judeo-Arabic Printing in Baghdad Online
- Hebrew, Judeo-Arabic, and Marathi Jewish Printing in India Online
- Israel's Messenger Online
- Moses Maimonides, Unparalleled Editions Online
- Sephardic Editions, 1550-1820 Online
ProQuest Historical Newspapers: Foreign Newspapers
Newspapers from Great Britain, Israel, France, China, and Canada. They can be searched together or separately.
Includes these titles:
- The Guardian and The Observer (1791 - 2003)
- The Jerusalem Post (1932 - 2008)
- Le Monde (1944 - 2000)
- South China Morning Post (1903 - 2001)
- Windsor Star (1893 - 2010)

Archives and Primary Sources

ArchiveGrid
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.
Archives Direct
Archives Direct is a suite of collections sourced from The National Archives, Kew, the official archive of the United Kingdom.
Includes dozens of collections that can be searched together, individually, or as part of the following series:
- Apartheid South Africa, 1948-1980
- Central Asia, Persia and Afghanistan, 1834-1922
- Confidential Print: Africa, 1834-1966
- Confidential Print: Latin America, 1833-1969
- Confidential Print: Middle East, 1839-1969
- Confidential Print: North America, 1824-1961
- Foreign Office Files for China, 1919-1980
- Foreign Office Files for India, Pakistan and Afghanistan, 1947-1980
- Foreign Office Files for Japan, 1919-1952
- Foreign Office Files for South East Asia, 1963-1980
- Foreign Office Files for the Middle East, 1971-1981
- Macmillan Cabinet Papers, 1957-1963
- Nixon Years, 1969-1974
- Women in The National Archives
Tips for using this collection are available in the Adam Matthew Digital Help Centre.
Archives Unbound: Middle Eastern Studies
Primary source collections from the 19th and 20th centuries.
Includes these collections:
- Afghanistan and the U.S., 1945-1963: Records of the U.S. State Department Classified Files
- Arab-Israeli Relations, 1917-1970: The Middle East Online Series 1
- Evangelism and the Syria-Lebanon Mission: Correspondence of the Board of Foreign Missions, 1869-1910
- Iran (Persia): Records of the U.S. Department of State, 1883-1959
- Lebanon, Palestine, Syria, Trans-Jordan: Records of the U.S. Department of State, 1836-1944
- The Middle East Online: Iraq 1914-1974
- Records of the Persian Gulf War
Middle East and Islamic Studies (Brill Primary Sources)
Primary sources in Islamic, Arab, and Ottoman history.
Includes these collections:
- Early Western Korans Online
- Middle Eastern Manuscripts Online 1: Pioneer Orientalists
- Middle Eastern Manuscripts Online 2: The Ottoman Legacy of Levinus Warner
- Middle Eastern Manuscripts Online 3: Arabic Manuscripts from the Hungarian Academy
- Russian-Ottoman Relations Online, Part 1: The Origins 1600-1800
- Russian-Ottoman Relations Online, Part 2: Shifts in the Balance of Power, 1800-1853
- Russian-Ottoman Relations Online, Part 3: The Crimean War (1853-1856)
- Russian-Ottoman Relations Online, Part 4: The End of the Empires, 1857-1914

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.