Middle East

See also: Middle East and Islamic Studies Library Resources

Guide for  Middle Eastern digital libraries and resources for finding digital collections on Middle East in Finding Primary Sources Online

Harvard Library E-Resources

Afghanistan and the United States, 1945-1963: Records of the U.S. State Department

Afghanistan in 1919: The Third Anglo-Afghan War

Basilica Online offers the 17 volume edition of the Basilica text and its scholia (1945-1988). Major source for Byzantine law.

BrillOnline primary sources. Western travellers in the Islamic world online covers travelogues on the Ottoman Empire, Ethiopia, Central Asia, Afghanistan, North Africa, and Iran. Full text content in English, German, French, Italian, and Latin.

Confidential print. Middle East, 1839-1969. Marlborough, UK : Adam Matthew Digital. Confidential prints were informational documents printed by the British Foreign and Colonial Offices and distributed privately to their officials. Includes Egypt.

Confidential U.S. State Department Central Files, Africa and Middle East, 1960-1969  (ProQuest History Vault) For an overview of contents, select Browse and scroll down to International Relations and Military Conflicts

The Coptic Gnostic Library Online

Creation of Israel: British Foreign Office Correspondence on Palestine and Transjordan, 1940-1948 (ProQuest History Vault)

The Cyprus Crisis in 1967

Eastlaws = Shabakat qawānīn al-sharq = شبكة قوانين الشرق. Cairo, Egypt : East Laws. Language: Arabic.  Law and Law reports, digests, etc. for Arab countries

Evangelism and the Syria-Lebanon Mission: Correspondence of the Board of Foreign Missions, 1869-1910

Foreign Office Files for the Middle East

Jewish Press (1850s-1990s, largely 1900-1950) includes Jewish and Hebrew periodicals in Hebrew, French, Yiddish, English, Judeo-Spanish, Judeo-Arabic, Russian, and Hungarian published in Europe, the Middle East and the United States.

LexiQamus helps researchers decipher illegible words in Ottoman manuscripts. Searches a database of words and phrases from 19 dictionaries published 1860-1928.

Middle East and North Africa: Global Perspectives, 1958-1994

U.S. and Iraqi Relations: U.S. Technical Aid, 1950-1958

U.S. Intelligence on the Middle East, 1945-2009