Research Guides @ Fordham: Middle East Studies: Finding Books

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Browsing by LC

LC Call Numbers

DS - Middle East

DS35.3-35.77 The Islamic World

DS36-39.2 Arab countries

DS41-66 Middle East. Southwestern Asia. Ancient Orient. Arab East. Near East

DS67-79.9 Iraq (Assyria, Babylonia, Mesopotamia)

DS80-90 Lebanon (Phenicia)

DS92-99 Syria

DS101-151 Israel (Palestine). The Jews

DS109-109.94 Jerusalem

DS153-154.9 Jordan. Transjordan

DS161-195.5 Armenia

DS201-248 Arabian Peninsula. Saudi Arabia

DS251-326 Iran (Persia)

DS350-375 Afghanistan

DS376-392.2 Pakistan

DT - Africa

DT43-154 Egypt

DR - Balkans

DR401-741 Turkey

DK - Former Soviet Republics

DK670-679.5 Georgia (Republic). Georgian S.S.R. Georgian Sakartvelo

DK680-689.5 Armenia (Republic). Armenian S.S.R.

DK690-699.5 Azerbaijan. Azerbaijan S.S.R.

DK931-939.5 Turkmenistan. Turkmen S.S.R. Turkmenia

Open Access Ebook Collections, Print Indexes, Bibliographies

Brill Open E-Book Collection This link opens in a new window
Hundreds of open access books. Use the left tool bar to limit by subject: Middle East and Islamic Studies.

Index Islamicus, 1906-1955: A Catalogue of Articles on Islamic Subjects in Periodicals and Other Collective Publications. by Pearson, J. D.
Call Number: (RH) Ref DS41 .I6 and DS41 .I6 Suppl.
Index Islamicus. Supplement, 1665-1980: A Bibliography of Articles on Islamic Subjects in Periodicals and Other Collective Publications. by Behn, Wolfgang
Call Number: (RH) Ref DS41 .I61 vols 1 & 2.
Middle East, Abstracts & Index
Call Number: Ref (RH) DS41 .M46
This is a print version of the MIDA database.

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Browsing Other Call Numbers

Cities of the Middle East and North Africa: A Historical Encyclopedia by Janet L. Abu-Lughod (Foreword by); Michael Richard Thomas Dumper (Editor); Bruce Stanley (Editor)
Call Number: (RH) Ref + HT147.5 .C574 2007
Santa Barbara, Calif.: ABC-CLIO, 2007.
The Economics of the Middle East by James E. Rauch
Call Number: (RH) Stacks HC415.15 .R38 2020
New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2020]
The Israeli Economy from the Foundation of the State Through the 21st Century by Paul Rivlin
Call Number: (LC, RH) Stacks HC415.25 .R583 2011
New York: Cambridge University Press, 2011.
The Long Divergence: How Islamic Law Held Back the Middle East by Timur Kuran
Call Number: (RH) Stacks HC415.15 .K87 2011
Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2011.
A Political Economy of the Middle East, 3rd ed., updated 2013 ed. by Ishac Diwan; Melani Cammett; Alan Richards; John Waterbury
Call Number: (RH) Stacks HC415.15 .R53 2008
Boulder, CO : Westview Press, 2013

Noteworthy Books

Biographical Encyclopedia of the Modern Middle East and North Africa by Michael R. Fischbach
Call Number: (RH) + Ref CT1866 .B56 2008
Detroit: Gale Group, 2008.
Demography and Democracy : Transitions in the Middle East and North Africa by Elhum Haghighat
Call Number: (RH) Stacks HB3633.3.A3 H34 2018
Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2018.
Dictionary of Politics in the Middle East by Kristian Coates Ulrichsen
[Oxford] : Oxford University Press, 2018.
Encyclopedia of the Modern Middle East and North Africa, 2nd ed. by Philip Mattar
Call Number: (RH) Ref + DS43 .E53 2004 ( 4 vols.)
Detroit, Mich.: Macmillan Reference USA, 2004.
Environmental Politics in the Middle East by Harry Verhoeven (Editor)
Call Number: (RH) Stacks GE190.M628 E68 2018
Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, [2018]
Islam : A Worldwide Encyclopedia [4 Volumes] by Cenap Çakmak (Editor)
Santa Barbara, California : ABC-CLIO, [2017]
Middle East Patterns : Places, People, and Politics, 6th ed by Colbert C. Held; John Thomas Cummings
Call Number: ebook
Boulder, Colorado : Westview Press, 2013.
Older editions in the Stacks at RH and LC : DS49.7 .H377
Negotiating Marriage, Family and Work : Experiences of Middle Class Egyptian Women by Dahlia Tawhid Roque
Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2020.