Toolbox for Scholars of Middle East & Islam

Searching Scientific Literature:

• DigiBib
• Karlsruher Virtueller Katalog – KVK

• Wissenschaftsportal b2i

Scientific portal for research on libraries and publishing, includes a meta search function for synchronous search in different resources.



Media:

• Arabische Zeitungen im Netz



Picture archives:

• Arab Image Foundation

• Middle East Photograph Archive an der University of Chicago

• MOT Photobase: Libanon



Online dictionaries:

• Arabic-German: Arabsun

• Arabic-German: Look up Arabic-German

• Arabic Etymology: A. E. D. – Arabic Etymological Dictionary

• Arabic-English: Look up Arabic-English



• Persian-English: Look up Persian-English



• Turkish-German: Almanca Türkçe Sözlük

• Turkish-German: Look up Türkisch-Deutsch



• Greek-English: Kypros (incl. Ancient Greek)⎥ in.gr

• Greek–English: http://lexicon.pathfinder.gr/

• Greek-English: Look up Greek-English



• Multilingual (European languages): http://iate.europa.eu/iatediff/

• Greek-Russian, Greek-Arab, Greek-Turkish dictionaries: http://www.xanthi.ilsp.gr/gr/projects/lex.htm

• Latin expressions and law: http://www.lawnet.gr/lexiko.asp



• Hebrew-English: Milon ⎥ מילון עברי-אנגלי-עברי חופשי ⎥ רב–מילים

• Hebrew-English: Look up Hebrew-English

• Hebrew-Hebrew: מאגר המונחים

• Hebrew–Arabic: מילווֹן ערבי-עברי ⎥ قاموس عربي-عبري



Fonts for Arabic and Arabic Transliteration:

(Nota bene: This list is restricted to fonts which are Unicode savvy. We strongly recommend not to make use of fonts like Times Beyrouth Roman etc.!)

• Gentium. Transliteration fonts for Macintosh (also Classic), Windows and Linux.

• Persian Font. Arabic-Persian Font for Macintosh.

• TITUS Cyberbit Basic. Huge font, for Macintosh and Windows.

• XW Zar: TrueType-Font for Arabic (incl. Persian, Urdu, Dari, Pashto, Uzbek, Kurdish, Turkish). OS must support AAT (thus not working on Windows).



Journals:

(under construction)



Netzwerks: Newsletter, Groups, und Forums:

• H-Net: Netzwerk zur Fachkommunikation in den Geisteswissenschaften an der University of Michigan (Englisch)

• H-Soz-u-Kult: Kommunikation und Fachinformation für die Geschichtswissenschaften

• MEMRI

• MideastWire.com



Departments and Instituts:

(under construction)


Art:

• Discover Islamic Art