Middle Eastern History

Byzantine Studies Page

Start here for all kinds of material on the Byzantine world.

Middle East Medievalists

The homepage of the professional organization for scholars interested in the Middle East from roughly 500 to 1500 CE.

University of Chicago Middle East Documentation Center 1997 Catalogue of Microforms Projects

This wonderful archive includes (I quote the librarian) "titles ... [in] all catagories, including Ottoman salnames, Ottoman and Turkish Journals, Ottoman Histories and Literature, and Persian and Arabic Journals."

Arabic Papyrology School

An online course of self-instruction in reading papyri in Arabic. A very nice idea.

ARIT-Istanbul Library

The Istanbul division of the American Research Institute in Turkey has now put its library on the Web; the Ankara library and a general website for ARIT are in the offing.

The Constantinople Project

Exploration of the earthquake threat to Hagia Sophia and other fascinating architectural questions related to Istanbul.

Turkish History

A page with a curious mix of things, including excerpts from books of highly varying quality about particular aspects of Ottoman history.

Index to On-Line News Agencies in the Middle East

Here you can find newspapers in Arabic, Farsi, and English published in Middle Eastern countries.

Resources on Islam.

This site provides lots of information about the study of the Islamic world.

Center of Islamic and Middle Eastern Law

This site offers material on the study of Islamic law.

Electronic Text Corpus of Sumerian Literature

          Currently scholars have about 50,000 lines of literature in Sumerian, divided up among 409             different compositions. The goal of this project is to make this literature available, in both the             original and English translation, to a wide audience.