Middle+East

=Resources for Middle East= toc

__General__

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 * [|Middle East]
 * [|Middle East -- Civilization]
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 * Selected books available at Ursuline College Library:**
 * //Civilizations of the ancient Near East// || REF/ DS 57 .C55 1995 ||
 * //Handbook to life in ancient Mesopotamia// || REF/DS 69.5 .B47 2003 ||
 * //Atlas of the Middle East// || REF/ G 2205 .A853 2003 ||
 * //Historical atlas of the Holy Lands// || REF/ G 2235 .F37 2003 ||
 * //The Greenwood encyclopedia of daily life// || REF GT 31 .G74 2004 ||
 * //Cities of the Middle East and North Africa: a historical encyclopedia// || REF/HT 147.5 .C574 2007 ||
 * //The Ottoman Empire, 1300-1650// || DR 486 .I63 2002 ||
 * //Kingdoms of Asia, the Middle East, and Africa// || DS 32 .G87 1986 ||
 * //A history of Islamic societies// || DS 35.63 .L37 2002 ||
 * //Daily life in the medieval Islamic world// || DS 36.855 L56 2005 ||
 * //The Middle East: a brief history of the last 2,000 years// || DS 62 .L594 1995 ||
 * //Daily life in ancient Mesopotamia// || DS 69.5 .N4 1998 ||

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__Art and Architecture__

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 * [|Art, Islamic]
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 * [|List of art resources]


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 * Selected books available at Ursuline College Library:**
 * //Atlas of world art// || REF/ G 1046 .E1 O9 2004 ||
 * //The dictionary of art// || REF/N 31 .D5 1996 ||
 * //The glory of Byzantium: art and culture of the Middle Byzantine era, A.D. 843-1261// || N 6250 .G55 1997 ||
 * //The art and architecture of Islam 1250-1800// || N 6260 .B56 1994 ||
 * //The Arts of Persia// || N 7280 .A89 1989 ||
 * //A history of Ottoman architecture// || NA 1364 .G6 1987 ||
 * //The Palace of Topkapi in Istanbul// || N 3960 .T8 I7713 1970 ||

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__Dress__

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 * [|List of fashion resources]


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 * Selected books available at Ursuline College Library:**
 * //Encyclopedia of clothing and fashion// || REF/GT 507 .E53 2005 ||
 * //Veil : modesty, privacy, and resistance// || GT 2112 .E5 1999 ||
 * //Ethnic dress// || GT 511 .K46 1995 ||

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__Food__

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 * Selected books available at Ursuline College Library:**
 * //The Cambridge world history of food// || REF/ TX 353 .C255 2000 ||
 * //Food: a culinary history from antiquity to the present// || REF/ TX 353 .H525 1999 ||
 * //Encyclopedia of food and culture// || REF/ GT 2850 .E53 2003 ||
 * //New food of life: ancient Persian and modern Iranian cooking and ceremonies// || TX 725 .I7 B373 1996 ||

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__Literature__

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 * [|Arabic literature]
 * [|Persian literature]
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 * Selected books available at Ursuline College Library:**
 * //Persian myths// || BL 2270 .C87 1993 ||
 * //The Arabic literary heritage// || PJ 7510 .A44 1998 ||
 * //Anthology of Islamic literature : from the rise of Islam to modern times// || PJ 7694 .E1 K74 1975 ||
 * //Persian literature// || PK 6097 .P47 1988 ||

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__Music__

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 * [|List of music resources]


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 * Selected media items available at Ursuline College Library:** (may need instructor permission to check out media items)
 * The JVC Video Anthology of World Music and Dance - MEDIA/M 1627 .J82


 * Selected books available at Ursuline College Library:**
 * //The Garland encyclopedia of world music// || REF/ ML 100 .G16 1998 ||

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__Religion__

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 * [|Middle East -- Religion]
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 * Selected books available at Ursuline College Library:**
 * //The Bible (Cultural atlas of the world)// || REF/ BS 630 R6 1992 ||
 * //Cultural atlas of Islam// || REF/ DS36.85 .A39 ||
 * //The Cambridge illustrated history of religions// || REF/ BL 80.2 .C334 2002 ||
 * //Facts on File encyclopedia of world mythology and legend// || REF/ BL 303 .M45 2004 ||
 * //The encyclopaedia of Middle Eastern mythology and religion// || REF/ BL 1060 .K58 1993 ||
 * //The Rise and spread of Islam, 622-1500// || REF/ DS 36.85 .W67 2001 ||
 * //Encyclopaedia Judaica// || REF/ DS 102.8 .E496 1973 ||
 * //Medieval Jewish civilization: an encyclopedia// || REF/ DS 124 .M386 2003 ||
 * //The illustrated atlas of Jewish civilization// || REF/ G 1030 .G48 1990 ||
 * //Historical atlas of the Islamic world// || REF/ G 1786 .S1 N5 2003 ||
 * //Human rights and the world’s major religions / Volume 3: The Islamic tradition// || BL 65 H78 H8595 2004 ||
 * //Islam: a short history// || BP 50 .A69 2000 ||
 * //The Oxford history of Islam// || BP 50 .O95 1999 ||
 * //Islam: religion, history, and civilization// || BP 163 .N2813 2002 ||

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__Science__

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 * Selected books available at Ursuline College Library:**
 * //Encyclopaedia of the history of science, technology, and medicine in non-western cultures// || REF/Q 124.8 .E53 1997 ||
 * //From five fingers to infinity: a journey through the history of mathematics// || QA 21 .F76 1994 ||
 * //Science in medieval Islam: an illustrated introduction// || Q 127 .I742 T78 1999 ||

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__Women__

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 * [|Women -- Middle East]
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 * [|Women's Studies International]


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 * Selected books available at Ursuline College Library:**
 * //Women’s roles in ancient civilizations// || REF/HQ 1127 W654 1999 ||
 * //Marriage customs of the world// || REF/GT 690 .M65 2004 ||
 * //Sexuality and the world's religions// || BL 65 .S4 S5 2003 ||
 * //Women in Middle Eastern history// || HQ 1726.5 .W66 1992 ||
 * //Women in the Ottoman Empire// || HQ 1726.2 .W64 1997 ||
 * //In the house of the law: gender and Islamic law in Ottoman Syria and Palestine// || KMC 145 .W64 T83 1998 ||

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__Iran__

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 * [|Iran]
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 * [|List of culture resources]


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 * Selected media items available at Ursuline College Library:** (may need instructor permission to check out media items)
 * The Music of Islam - MEDIA/M 2099.5 .M87
 * The JVC Video Anthology of World Music and Dance - MEDIA/M 1627 .J82
 * Shiites, Followers of Ali - MEDIA/BP 192 .S54


 * Selected books available at Ursuline College Library:**
 * //The history of Iran// || DS 272 .D36 2000 ||

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__Iraq__

 * see also Baghdad, Iraq - 8th century


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 * [|Iraq]
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 * Selected media items available at Ursuline College Library:** (may need instructor permission to check out media items)
 * The JVC Video Anthology of World Music and Dance - MEDIA/M 1627 .J82
 * Legacy - MEDIA/CB 311 .L43
 * Once Upon a Time in Baghdad - MEDIA/DS 36.85 .O53


 * Selected books available at Ursuline College Library:**
 * //When Baghdad ruled the Muslim world// || DS 38.6 .K46 2005 ||

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__Israel__

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 * [|Israel]
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 * Selected media items available at Ursuline College Library:** (may need instructor permission to check out media items)
 * Arab and Jew: Wounded Spirits in a Promised Land - MEDIA/DS 119.7 .A672
 * Chronicles and Kings - MEDIA/BS 538 .T47
 * The Conflict - MEDIA/DS 126.5 .C66
 * O, Jerusalem - MEDIA/DS 132 .O106
 * Tkuma: the first fifty years - MEDIA/DS 126.5 .T62


 * Selected books available at Ursuline College Library:**
 * //Cultures of the Jews: a new history// || BL 80.2 .C334 2002 ||
 * //Life in biblical Israel// || DS 112 .K48 2001 ||
 * //A history of Israel// || DS 121 .B72 2000 ||
 * //Jerusalem: an archaeological biography// || DS 109.9 .S485 1995 ||
 * //Jerusalem: one city, three faiths// || DS 109.9 .A76 1996 ||

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__Morocco__

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 * [|Morocco]
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 * Selected media items available at Ursuline College Library:** (may need instructor permission to check out media items)
 * The JVC Video Anthology of World Music and Dance - MEDIA/M 1627 .J82
 * The Music of Islam - MEDIA/M 2099.5 .M87


 * Selected books available at Ursuline College Library:**
 * //Culture and customs in Morocco// || REF/DT 312 .N57 2006 ||
 * //Fez in the age of the Marinides// || DT 329 .F4 L423 1961 ||

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__Saudi Arabia__

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 * [|Saudi Arabia]
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 * Selected media items available at Ursuline College Library:** (may need instructor permission to check out media items)
 * House of Saud - MEDIA/DS 244.52 .H687


 * Selected books available at Ursuline College Library:**
 * //The history of Saudi Arabia// || DS 244 .V37 1998 ||
 * //Mecca// || DS 248 .M4 S73 ||

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__Syria__

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 * Selected media items available at Ursuline College Library:** (may need instructor permission to check out media items)
 * Shiites, Followers of Ali - MEDIA/BP 192 .S54


 * Selected books available at Ursuline College Library:**
 * //Damascus under the Mamluks// || DS 99 .D3 Z5 1964 ||

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__Turkey__

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 * [|Turkey]
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 * Selected media items available at Ursuline College Library:** (may need instructor permission to check out media items)
 * Ottoman Empire - MEDIA/DR 486 .O88


 * Selected books available at Ursuline College Library:**
 * //The history of Turkey// || DR 441 .H69 2001 ||
 * //Suleiman the magnificent// || DR 506 .C5713 1992 ||
 * //Istanbul: the imperial city// || DR 728 .F74 1998 ||
 * //Istanbul// || DR 723 .T46 1978 ||
 * //Constantinople: city of the world's desire, 1453-1924// || DR 730 .M25 1996 ||
 * //Constantinople in the age of Justinian// || DR 729 .D6 1960 ||
 * //Suleyman the Magnificent [videorecording]// || MEDIA/DR 506 .S95 ||
 * //Ottoman Empire [videorecording]// || MEDIA/DR 486 .O88 ||

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