Al-Mashriq (http://almashriq.hiof.no/)
Børre Ludvigsen's English language al-Mashriq website covers a variety of information about the Levant region, including historical, cultural, and political data.
Encyclopedia.com (http://www.encyclopedia.com)
From the Electronic Library, searching the Encyclopedia.com by country provides
numerous narrative articles on its history, culture, politics.
Infoplease (http://www.infoplease.com/)
Part of the electronic Learning Network, this homepage allows searches by country
which yield articles in almanacs, dictionaries, encyclopedias, biographical works,
etc. Additional reference links are provided as well.
Princeton University Library's Digital Islamic Manuscript Collection (http://diglib.princeton.edu/xquery?_xq=getCollection&_xsl=collection&_pid=islamic)
Princeton University Library holds approximately 9,500 Islamic manuscripts in Arabic, Persian, Ottoman Turkish and other languages of the Muslim world written in Arabic script. The manuscripts date from the 9th to the 19th centuries. 200 of these manuscripts are being digitized for their digital library.
Turkish Kitchen (http://www.bigglook.com/biggmenueng/)
A web site featuring Turkish cuisine.
University of Chicago Middle East Photo Archive ( http://www.lib.uchicago.edu/e/su/mideast/PhotoArchive.html)
The University of Chicago Middle East Photo Archive contains numerous photographs taken in the 19th and early 20th centuries from various regions around the Middle East. |