Digitisation enables broad, location-independent access to primary and secondary literature, research data and other research materials. Accordingly, digital material is also increasingly referenced in Middle Eastern studies publications.… Read more
Virtual Library
Literature on the Pandemic
The Corona pandemic has been influencing social discourse worldwide since 2019. You can research how this is being conducted in MENA countries in our book collections.
Over the past 2 years, the Specialised Information Service Middle East has acquired numerous … Read more
Hayat
Now new in our holdings:
Turkish Magazine from the 1950s – 1970s
The journal Hayat (Life) is an interesting source of Turkish cultural history. It is now in our collection.… Read more
New in Open Access: „Histoire des Juifs de Turquie“
The History of the Jews in Turkey
Now digitized and freely available in open access:
“Histoire des Juifs de Turquie” in 9 volumes by Avram Galanti.
The work compiles all of the Turkish author’s important French-language writings on Jewish life … Read more
Women as Transmitters of the Hadith
Now new in our holdings:
al-Wafāʾ bi-asmāʾ an-nisāʾ
mausūʿat tarāǧim aʿlām an-nisāʾ fi ‚l-ḥadīṯ an-nabawī / taʾlīf ad-duktūr Muḥammad Akram an-Nadwī ; murāǧaʿat laǧna min al-ʿulamāʾ bi-riʾāsat al-ustāḏ ad-Duktūr Hāšim Muḥammad ʿAlī Ḥusain Mahdī… Read more
Armenian Rarity in Open Access: “Baṙgirk’ haykazean lezowi”
Important Work of Reference
The dictionary of the Armenian language “Baṙgirk’ haykazean lezowi” by Mechitar of Sebaste is a fundamental monument of Armenian philology.… Read more
MENAdoc System Update
Open Access closed
Attention our new MENAdoc platform is being upgraded to a more powerful system. Therefore the server will not be available between:
Monday 29 March 2021 6 pm and Wednesday 31 March 2021 6 pm.
However, the … Read more