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Middle East | Middle East--Link sources

Sources for Further Links:

The links below are only a sample of the pages that exist. Each of these leads to pages of links on a variety of topics. Please bear in mind that linking to these sites is not meant to be an endorsement of their content or that of sites to which they provide further links. It is not possible for us to check every link these pages provide, and it is not our goal to present or ignore any political, religious or other point of view which might exist on the web.

The University of Chicago Libraries Humanities electronic resources page.
http://www.lib.uchicago.edu/e/reg/db/hum.html

The University of Chicago Libraries Social Sciences electronic resources page.
http://www.lib.uchicago.edu/e/reg/db/socsci.html

Middle East Medievalists This site has a strong links page with a variety of resources, including bibliographic and teaching resources, electronic publications and projects, and more.
http://www.middleeastmedievalists.org/

Middle East Studies Association of North America
http://fp.arizona.edu/mesassoc

Central Eurasian Studies World Wide is an excellent source of information. It "is not only a website, but an integrated network of information gathering and distributing functions, including list servers such as the Central-Eurasia-L Announcement List for Central Eurasian Studies, and the reference publications such as the Guide to Scholarly Resources for the study of Central Asia."
http://cesww.fas.harvard.edu/index.html
The Central Eurasian Studies Society (CESS) "is a private, non-political, non-profit, North America-based organization of scholars who are interested in the study of Central Eurasia, and its history, languages, cultures, and modern states and societies.  We define the Central Eurasian region broadly to include Turkic, Mongolian, Iranian, Caucasian, Tibetan and other peoples.  Geographically, Central Eurasia extends from the Black Sea region, the Crimea, and the Caucasus in the west, through the Middle Volga region, Central Asia and Afghanistan, and on to Siberia, Mongolia and Tibet in the east."
Website features include The Central Asian Studies Review in PDF and HTML formats (available to members and non-members alike), links, and much more.
http://cess.fas.harvard.edu/
http://cess.fas.harvard.edu/CESSpg_links.html#Resources

Syrian Studies Association is "an international association organized to encourage and promote research and scholarly understanding of Syria in all periods and in all academic disciplines."
http://www.ou.edu/ssa

The Islam, Islamic Studies, Arabic and Religion page, "the academic website of Dr. Alan Godlas, professor in the Department of Religion at the University of Georgia, primarily provides a scholarly overview of Islam, while also touching upon Arabic, Western religions, and related subjects. At the core of the site are short introductory essays on various aspects of Islam containing numerous annotated links." It has been recognized as one of the most comprehensive religion sites on the web.
http://www.arches.uga.edu/~godlas

The Council on Islamic Education "provides services, resources and research-based tools predicated upon the highest standards of historical and social science scholarship to K-12 school textbook publishers, state education officials and policymakers, curriculum developers, and teachers."
http://www.cie.org/index.htm

The World-Wide-Web Virtual Library "is the oldest catalog of the web, started by Tim Berners-Lee, the creator of html and the web itself. Unlike commercial catalogs, it is run by a loose confederation of volunteers, who compile pages of key links for particular areas in which they are expert; even though it isn't the biggest index of the web, the VL pages are widely recognised as being amongst the highest-quality guides to particular sections of the web."
http://vlib.org

Some of the many pages that might be helpful:
Middle East Studies Internet Resources (http://www.columbia.edu/cu/lweb/indiv/mideast/cuvlm)
African Studies Internet Resources (http://www.columbia.edu/cu/lweb/indiv/africa/cuvl)
Asian Studies, including Central Asia, the Caucasus, East Asia, South Asia and more. (http://vlib.org/AsianStudies.html)
Religion (http://vlib.org/Religion.html)
There are many more.

MERIA's Resources for Middle East Research provides seven research tools: Research guides by leading experts, a Middle East Policy Database, a selective list of links, current contents of periodicals, and more. The links pages are well-organized and useful.
http://www.biu.ac.il/SOC/besa/meria/resources.html

Al Mashriq is an amazing resource with an astonishing array of links, pictures, recipes, and much more.
http://almashriq.hiof.no

Arts and Cultures of the Himalayan Region is a site designed for teachers of world religions. It is useful for its lesson plans and its long lists of links, which include much more than the Himalayan region, encompassing Islam, Judaism, Christianity, Hinduism and more. Created by J. Paliatka as part of a National Endowment for the Humanities Institute held at the College of the Holy Cross in Worcester, MA. Educators might also find useful material at other sites from this Institute, at http://college.holycross.edu/orgs/himalayan_cultures/implementation-plan.htm.
http://college.holycross.edu/orgs/himalayan_cultures/jpaliatka/index.htm

The Middle East Institute website has a section devoted to links to other quality Middle-East-related websites.
http://www.themiddleeastinstitute.org

The Pluralism Project: Public Square This page includes an extensive list of links to governmental, advocacy, and educational resources.
http://www.fas.harvard.edu/~pluralsm

The Wabash Center Guide to Internet Resources for Teaching and Learning in Theology and Religion "is a selective, annotated guide to a wide variety of electronic resources of interest to those who are teaching or studying religion and theology at the undergraduate or graduate level."
http://www.wabashcenter.wabash.edu/Internet/front.htm

EurasiaNet "provides information and analysis about political, economic, environmental and social developments in the countries of Central Asia and the Caucasus, as well as in Russia, the Middle East, and Southwest Asia." The site "is operated by the Central Eurasia Project of the Open Society Institute."
http://www.eurasianet.org

Islamweb: Islamic Studies Internet Guide "This web site is academic. Unaffiliated with any sectarian or political organization, it is a collaborative effort that unites a number of scholars from the Carolina-Duke-Emory Institute for the Study of Islam. They come from different academic disciplines, including religious studies, history, sociology, cultural studies, literature, art history, etc."
http://www.unc.edu/depts/islamweb

CDEISI: The Carolina Duke Emory Institute for the Study of Islam
http://www.unc.edu/depts/cdeisi/links.htm

The Sufi Literature Archive Links page
http://www.unc.edu/depts/sufilit/links.htm

Teacher Serve from the National Humanities Center provides links to online resources for teachers and others interested in the Middle East and Islam.
http://www.nhc.rtp.nc.us:8080/tserve/twenty/tlinksislam.htm

Virtually Islamic, "Islamic Studies Pathways" by Gary Bunt, University of Wales at Lampeter.
http://www.virtuallyislamic.com

Middle East North Africa Internet Resource Guide by Joseph Roberts, University of Utah.
http://www.cc.utah.edu/~jwr9311/MENA.html

Center for Middle East Studies, University of California at Berkeley
http://www.ias.berkeley.edu/cmes/

Teaching Islamic Civilization with Information Technology by Corinne Blake. Links to primary and secondary sources on the internet, including hadith, Qur'an, and more.
http://www.albany.edu/jmmh/vol1no1/teach-islamic.html

Academic Info: Islamic Studies
http://www.academicinfo.net/Islam.html

Islam Links, Hofstra University
http://people.hofstra.edu/faculty/daniel_m_varisco/islamlink.html

Islamic Gateway
http://www.ummah.net

Islamic Paths (English and Indonesian)
http://www.islamic-paths.org

The Islamic Resources page Middle East Network Information Centre (UT-MENIC) of the Center for Middle Eastern Studies at the University of Texas
http://menic.utexas.edu/menic/islam.html

Islamic Studies Pathways
http://www.lamp.ac.uk/cis/pathways/

Islamic Voice Links Page
http://www.islamicvoice.com/links.htm

ISLAW [Internet Sites about Islamic Law], University of Leipzig
http://www.uni-leipzig.de/~orient/

The Islamic Gateway, United Kingdom
http://www.ummah.org.uk

Department of Middle Eastern Languages and Cultures, Uiversity of Texas at Austin.
http://uts.cc.utexas.edu/~islam/linkstext.html

Harvard's Center for Middle Eastern Studies Links page
http://www.fas.harvard.edu/~mideast/

UW-Madison Middle East Studies Program Middle East Related Links.
http://www.mesp.wisc.edu/link.htm

Middle East: A Research Guide from the University of Delaware.
http://www2.lib.udel.edu/subj/pols/resguide/mideast.htm

Adressen zur Region des Vorderen Orients und zum Islam im WWW WWW Resources on the Middle East and Islam
http://www.uni-tuebingen.de/uni/orient/links/#Islam/Islamwissenschaft

The Richardson Institute for Peace and Conflict Research, Department of Politics and International Relations, Lancaster University.
http://www.lancs.ac.uk/depts/richinst/links/mideast.htm

Regional map and maps of individual countries, with links and statistics.
http://www.graphicmaps.com/webimage/countrys/me.htm

Bibliography for Medieval Islam
http://us.geocities.com/rfaizer/index.html

Yahoo country sites, including:
Afghanistan
Algeria
Armenia
Azerbaijan
Bahrain
Brunei
Cyprus
Djibouti
Egypt
Georgia
India
Indonesia
Iran
Iraq
Israel
Jordan
Kazakhstan
Kuwait
Kyrgyzstan
Lebanon
Libya
Mali
Mongolia
Morocco
Nigeria
Oman
Pakistan
Qatar
Saudi_Arabia
Spain
Sudan
Syria
Tajikistan
Tunisia
Turkey
Turkmenistan
United_Arab_Emirates
Uzbekistan
Western_Sahara
Yemen

The Silk Road and Central Asia On the World Wide Web
http://depts.washington.edu/reecas/outreach/silklink.htm

The Center for Russia, East Europe and Central Asia at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, features links to information about various countries, teacher resources, research resources and more. Among the countries are Kazakstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan, Turkmenistan, Azerbaijan, Armenia, Georgia, and Russia. There are also links to other institutes with similar focus.

Islamonline calls itself a gateway to comprehensive sources of information on Islam.
http://www.islamonline.com

African Political Resourrces provides links to political parties, media and more.
http://www.politicalresources.net/africa.htm

Afghanistan Online has many links related to Afghanistan.
http://www.afghan-web.com/

The Uysal-Walker Archive of Turkish Oral Narrative (U-W ATON) "is a repository situated at the Texas Tech University Libraries in Lubbock Texas." The site includes downloadable texts (in PDF format), and recordings of narratives (folktalkes, epics, and much more) and folk music (including many field recordings made by Ahmet Edip Uysal between 1961 and 1974 in rural villages), plus many photographs, and some scholarly articles.
http://aton.ttu.edu/links.asp