Reference Sources
Brockelmann Online
Also available off-campus to SOAS staff and students using their SOAS id and password.
A Guide to using Brockelmann's Geschicte der arabischen Litteratur [PDF]
The Encyclopedia of Arabic Language and Linguistics Online (EALL Online)
The Encyclopedia of Arabic Language and Linguistics Online (EALL Online) comprehensively covers all aspects of Arabic languages and linguistics and deals with all levels of the language (pre-Classical Arabic, Classical Arabic, Modern Standard Arabic, Arabic vernaculars, mixed varieties of Arabic).
This unique collaboration of over a hundred scholars from around the world, including eminent contributors from SOAS, is overtly interdisciplinary in scope and represents different schools and approaches.
It is bound to be the standard reference work for students and researchers in the field of linguistics, Arabic literature but also Islamic studies and other related fields as Arabic plays a pivotal role in the Islamic sciences (e.g. jurisprudence, Qur'anic exegesis) and is doubtless the most powerful symbol of Islam.
The online edition is cross-searchable, cross-referenced and updated twice a year.
Also available off-campus to SOAS staff and students using their SOAS id and password.
Encyclopaedia of Islam
Also available off-campus to SOAS staff and students using their SOAS id and password.
Encyclopaedia Iranica is appearing in parts, and has so far got only as far as A-Harem, but is already an important source for topics covering the entire Iranian world, both ancient and modern. The online version includes articles not yet published in the printed version.
Research guide: Web guide to maps of the Middle East
Very exhaustive and well annotated guide developed by the Middle East Review of International Affairs (MERIA)
Atlas of the Orient
The Gulf/2000 project
The Gulf/2000 Project provides regional, ethnographic and cultural, political and economic maps of the eight countries of the Persian Gulf region--Bahrain, Iran, Iraq, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, and the United Arab Emirates.
Global Connections – the Middle East
An interactive PBS Map of the Middle East
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/globalconnections/mideast/maps/index.html
