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Transliteration systems are used to convert words from one writing system to another. Words written in non-Roman writing systems (e.g., Arabic, Russian, Hindi), may be transliterated into Roman letters in various ways. This can create problems when searching in a library catalog or database. Try variations to get better results. For example:
- JMU Library Catalog: Qaddafi, Muammar
- Historical Abstracts: Qadhafi, Muammar
- CNN: Gadhafi, Moammar
- Al Jazeera: Gaddafi, Muammar
- ABC News: Kaddafi, Moammar
Arabic Grammar
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ArabicCall Number: PJ6307 .TY7
Location: Carrier Books
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Arabic: An Essential GrammarCall Number: PJ6307 .A384 2007
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Arabic for DummiesLocation: Online
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Arabic Language and Grammar (4 vols.)Call Number: PJ6307 .K3
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An Introduction to Koranic and Classical Arabic: An Elementary Grammar of the LanguageCall Number: PJ6307 .T45 2000
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Introduction to Modern ArabicCall Number: PJ6307 .Z5
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Modern Written Arabic: A Comprehensive GrammarCall Number: PJ6307 .B33 2004
Location: Carrier Books
Arabic Dictionaries
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Arabic-English Dictionary of Qur'anic UsageCall Number: BP133 .B23 2008
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Arabic-English Lexicon [Madd al-qamus] (8 vols.)Call Number: PJ6640 .L3 2003
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Oxford-Duden Pictorial English Dictionary with English-Arabic IndexCall Number: PE1629 .O884 2003
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Oxford Arabic DictionaryCall Number: PJ6640 .O92 2014
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Oxford Essential Arabic Dictionary: English-Arabic, Arabic-EnglishCall Number: PJ6640 .O94 2010
Location: Carrier Reference
Special Tools
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Arabic through the Qur'anCall Number: PJ6111 .J66 2006
Location: Carrier Books
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Media Arabic: A Coursebook for Reading Arabic NewsCall Number: PJ6307 .E44 2007
Location: Carrier Books
Finding Journal Articles
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Academic Search CompleteMultidisciplinary index and full text source for scholarly journals and magazines.
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Historical AbstractsIndex with abstracts to more than 1,800 journals in 40 languages on world history from 1450 to the present; excludes the US and Canada.
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Index IslamicusIndexes journal articles, conference proceedings, monographs, multi-authored works and book reviews on Islam, the Middle East, Muslim areas of Africa and Asia, and other geographic regions with a Muslim minority.
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Humanities International CompleteFull text journals, books, and other published resources pertaining to the humanities from around the world.
Find Primary Sources
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Al-Bab: Arabic News Media OnlineProvides links to news media and other primary source resources on Arab countries (primarily those within the Arab League). Sponsored by the British-Yemen Society.
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Heilbrunn Timeline of Art HistoryThis multifaceted tool places art works from the Metropolitan Museum's collection within geographical and chronological context. It has excellent thematic essays (background information) that cover the historical eras and cultures that produced the works of art (the primary sources), along with maps and key events from each place and time period.
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Resources for the History of Islamic BooksMaintained by Dagmar Riedel at Columbia University, this is an in-progress bibliography of works.
Encyclopedias
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Arabic WikipediaMost popular crowd-sourced online encyclopedia.
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Encyclopedia IranicaScholarly online encyclopedia of Iranian civilization. Collaborative project at Columbia University.
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The Encyclopaedia of Islam, ThreeCall Number: DS37 .E523, 2nd. ed. at DS37 .E523 1960
Location: Carrier Reference
The best English-language scholarly reference work on Islamic studies. Although most entry headings are foreign words transliterated according to an unusual system, the separate indexes allow for easy access to pertinent articles. -
Encyclopedia of the Modern Middle East and North AfricaCall Number: DS43 .E53
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The Greenwood Encyclopedia of World Popular CultureCall Number: HM621 .G74 2007
Location: Carrier Reference
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The Oxford Encyclopedia of the Islamic WorldCall Number: DS35 .53 .O96 2009
Location: Carrier Reference
Reference Information
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A Brief Introduction to Modern Arabic LiteratureCall Number: PJ7538 .T74 2008
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Encyclopedia of Arabic LiteratureCall Number: PJ7510 .E53 1998
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Modern Arabic Literature in Translation: A CompanionCall Number: PJ7538 .A358 2005
Location: Carrier Books