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1. Bobst Library cross-trainingMiddle East and Islamic Studies Peter Magierski
Librarian for
Middle East Studies
October, 2005
2. Middle East and Islamic Studies at NYU Cover study of history, politics, economy, religions, cultures and languages and literatures of the area stretching from North Africa to Central Asia.
Main languages :
Arabic, Hebrew, Persian, Turkish.
3. Middle East Studies Programs at NYU
Hagop Kevorkian Center
MA in Near Eastern Studies
Joint MA with Department of Journalism
MA with concentration in Museum Studies
MA with business option
http://www.nyu.edu/gsas/program/neareast/
Department of Middle East and Islamic Studies (MEIS)
BA
MA
PhD
Joint PhD with Department of History
http://www.nyu.edu/gsas/dept/mideast/index.html
4. Bobcat searching tips TRANSLITERATION !!!! It involves not only replacement of Arabic or Hebrew script by Roman letters but also filling in the vowels. In Arabic, Persian and Hebrew short vowels are not recorded in the script and they are reconstructed in the Roman script. This is often cause of confusion.
???? Muhammad vs. Mohammad vs. Mohammed
Link to LC transliteration tables is on ME subject page
Omit the definite article 'al-' at the start of a names and titles.Mutanabbi NOT al-Mutanabbi
For modern names type the last name of a person first.
Mahfuz, NajibSadawi, Nawal NOT El Saadawi, Nawal
Some older (up to 19th c.) Arabic names are searched in direct order Abu al-Faraj al-Isbahani
5. Transliteration issues, cont.
??????? Muammar who?
100 1_ |a Qaddafi, Muammar
400 1_ |a Gadhafi, Mo'ammar
400 1_ |a Kaddafi, Muammar
400 1_ |a Qadhafi, Muammar
400 1_ |a El Kadhafi, Moammar
400 1_ |a Kadhafi, Moammar
400 0_ |a Moammar Kadhafi
400 1_ |a Gadafi, Muammar
400 0_ |a Mu'ammar al-Qadafi
400 0_ |a Moamer El Kazzafi
400 0_ |a Moamar al-Gaddafi
400 0_ |a Mu'ammar Al Qathafi + 45 more
??????? Al-Qaida or is it Al-Qaeda?
110 2_ |a Qaida (Organization)
410 20 |a QŻa`idah (Organization)
410 20 |a Quaida (Organization)
410 20 |a Al-Qaida (Organization)
410 20 |a Qaeda (Organization)
410 20 |a Al Qaeda (Organization)
410 20 |a Al Queda (Organization)
410 2_ |a Al´-Kaida (Organization)
410 20 |a Kaida (Organization)
6. LC Subject Headings
7. Selected print sources Encyclopedia of the Modern Middle East (4 vol.)REF1 DS43 .E53 1996
Encyclopedia of Arabic literature (2 vol.)REF1 PJ7510 .E53 1998
Encyclopedia of women & Islamic culturesREF1 HQ1170 .E53 2003
Encyclopaedia of the Quran (4 vol.)
REF1 BP133 .E53 2001
Encyclopaedia Iranica (13 vol.)
REF1 DS253 .E56
Middle East contemporary survey (Annual)
REF1 DS62.8 .M53
Oxford Encyclopedia of the Modern Islamic World (4 vol.)
REF1 DS35.53 .O95 1995
Cambridge history Islam (4 vol)
REF1 DS35.6 .C3 1977
World Bibliographical Series, Historical Dictionaries Series
Bobst Research Guides
Middle East Studies (RG26), Religion (RG51), Judaic Studies (RG69 )
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British journal of Middle Eastern studies
International journal of Middle Eastern studies
MEED: Middle East economic digest
MERIP reports
Middle East journal
Middle Eastern studies
Central Asian survey
Edebiyat: a journal of Middle Eastern literatures
Middle Eastern literatures
Selected key journals
9. Electronic Indexes and Reference Sources Index Islamicus (electronic and print)
REF1 Z3013 .L72
http://www.csa.com/htbin/dbrng.cgi?username=nyu28&access=nyu2828&cat=islam
Encyclopaedia of Islam (electronic and print)
REF1 DS253 .E56
http://www.encislam.brill.nl
Periodicals Contents Index (PCI)
Index to Jewish periodicals
Other indexes and databases MLA Bibliography, JSTOR, Project Muse, Historical Abstracts, Worldwide Political Science Abstracts, International Political Science Abstracts, ATLA Religion Database
10. Index Islamicus Islamicus database indexes literature on Islam, the Middle East and the Muslim world. Coverage goes back to 1906.
11. Encyclopaedia of IslamEI is the standard, most important and comprehensive reference tool reference work in the field of Islamic studies. Signed articles are true research pieces - in many case the best available treatment of their subject. Extensive bibliographies.
12. Web Resources ALMISBAH
is a Virtual Library created by the State- and University Library Saxony-Anhalt in Halle (Germany). Provides access to selected Internet resources on the Middle East and on Islam.
http://ssgdoc.bibliothek.uni-halle.de/vlib/ssgfi/search.html
KIDON Media
Directory of newspapers and other news sources on the internet
http://www.kidon.com/media-link/asia.shtml
13. Online database and web searching
Bobcat : Qaida (Organization)
WilsonWeb
Qaeda - 2367 records
Qaida - 27 records
Bobcat : Qaddafi, Muammar
Google search The most records come for the spelling Gaddafi !!!