Summit Catalog (search OR/WA libraries)
WorldCat (search across the world, primary & secondary sources, some articles)
In recent years several compilations of translated documents relating to contemporary Islamic thinking have appeared, among them:
Liberal Islam: A Sourcebook. ed. Charles Kurzman (NY: Oxford University Press, 1998).
The Middle East and the Islamic World Reader. ed. Marvin F. Gettleman and Stuart Schaar (NY: Grove, 2003). Currently available via Summit, a copy is on order for The Valley Library.
Modernist and Fundamentalist Debates in Islam: A Reader. ed. Mansoor Moaddel and Kamran Talattof (NY: Palgrave Macmillan, 2002).
Modernist Islam, 1840-1940. ed. Charles Kurzman (NY: Oxford University Press, 2002). More extensive than most in terms of topics and geography. Currently available via Summit, a copy is on order for The Valley Library.
Sources in the History of the Modern Middle East. ed. Akram Fouad Khater (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 2004). Inter library loan from WorldCat, a copy is on order for The Valley Library.
Older but still useful sourcebooks are:
Political and Social Thought in the Contemporary Middle East, Revised and Enlarged Edition. ed. Kemal H. Karpat (NY: Praeger, 1982).
Expectation of the Millennium: Shi`ism in History. ed. Seyyed Hossein Nasr et al. (Albany: State University of New York Press, 1989).
Encyclopaedia of Islam Reference DS 37 .E5
Index Islamicus Z7835 .M6 L6
The Oxford Encyclopedia of the Modern Islamic World Reference DS35.53 .O95 1995
The Cultural Atlas of Islam Reference DS36.85 .A39 1986
Encyclopedia of Islam and the Muslim World Online. This has brief, rudimentary articles. Useful only as an initial overview.
A History of the Arab Peoples DS37.7 .H67 1991
A History of Islamic Societies, 2002 ed. order from Summit or get the 1988 ed. at Valley DS35.63 .L37 1988
Book to Avoid: The New Encyclopedia of Islam and The Concise Encyclopedia of Islam, both edited by Cyril Glassé.
Information on Arabic names and the Muslim Calendar
Columbia University Libraries Middle East & Jewish Studies Internet Resources
Portland State University Guide to Resources on Islam, the Middle East & the Current Crisis
Islam and Islamic Studies Resources from Professor Alan Godlas of the University of Georgia. This is a prize-winning site.
UCLA Center for Near Eastern Studies
The University of Washington Library has a well-constructed site with links to other sites.
Middle East maps listed in the Perry-Castañeda Library
Map Collection at the University of Texas.
The CIA's online World Factbook is also useful for maps and up-to-date information.
Historical maps can be found at http://www.al-bab.com/arab/maps/maps2.htm
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