Arabic Studies

Language, Literature and Civilization

Revised periodically this list aims to provide the major tools for both beginning and advanced research, held by the Humanities and Social Sciences Reference Department, University of Florida. Suggestions are welcome.

General Guides and Handbooks

Edge, David, et al. Guide to Islam. 1983.                                                                                            Publications, books and articles, on Islam as a religion and civilization. 2962 entries, annotated.                                              Ref. Z7835.M6 G84 1983

Reich, Bo, ed. Handbook of Political Science Research on the Middle East and North Africa. 1998.                           Bibliographical essays for each country, by specialists.

Encyclopedias, Dictionaries, Atlases, Almanacs

The Encyclopedia of Islam. New ed. 1960-.                      "Prepared by a number of leading orientalists." Monumental enterprise, with separate indexes of topics, proper names, technical terms, etc. 9 vols. published so far.                                 Ref. DS37.E523

E.J. Brill's First Encyclopedia of Islam, 1913-1936. 9 vols. Reprint of The Encyclopedia of Islam. (First edition)                    Ref. DS35.53.E53 1987

Political Leaders of the Contemporary Middle East and North Africa: a Biographical Dictionary. 1990.                                  Ref. DS61.P65 1990

Meisami, Julie Scott and Paul Starkey, eds. Encyclopedia of Arabic Literature. 2 vols. 1998.                                          Authors and topics.                                                                    Ref. PJ7510.E53 1998

Weeks, Richard V., ed. Muslim Peoples: a World Ethnographic Survey. 2 vols. 1984                                         Ref. DS35.625.A1 M87 1984

Al-Faruqi, Isma 'il R., ed. The Cultural Atlas of Islam. 1986                                                                                    Overview of all cultural, religious and historical aspects.                  Ref. DS36.85.A39 1986

Encyclopedia of the Modern Middle East. 4 vols. 1996                                                                                             "A compendium of knowledge about the Middle East since 1800." Spanning geographically from Afghanistan to Morocco.                 Ref. DS43.E53 1996

Civilizations of the Ancient Near East. 5 vols. 1996                                                                                        Specific essays, with bibliographies, on broad social, cultural, artistic, religious and literary fields of the mediterranean world in Antiquity.                                                                                   Ref. DS57.C55 1995

The Oxford Encyclopedia of Archaeology in the Near East. 4 vols. 1997                                                                           Includes the Arab world, in dictionary format.                               Ref. DS56.09 1997

The Middle East. (Handbooks to the Modern World). 1988.                                                                                      Includes chapter on Maghreb, the historical, social, political and economic conditions by country.                                                 Ref. DS44.H35 1987

Ziring, Lawrence. The Middle East: a Political Dictionary. 1992.                                                                                          "… identifies the terms, events, characteristics, movements, and institutions … in the last half of the twentieth century."                    Ref. DS61.Z58 1992

The Middle East. 7^th ed. 1991.                                           Prepared by Congressional Quarterly, provides practical, up-to-date information on all aspects of the region                        Ref. DS63.1.M484 1991

Sela, Avraham, ed. Political Encyclopedia of the Middle East. 1999.                                                                              Information in historical perspective, focusing on the past two decades. A major resource.                                                       Ref. DS62.8.P64 1999

Abukhalil, As' ad. Historical Dictionary of Lebanon. 1998.                                                                                          Ref. DS80.9.A28 1998

Peck, Malcolm C. Historical Dictionary of the Gulf Arab States. 1997.                                                                              Ref. DS247.A15 P43 1997

Peterson, J.E. Historical Dictionary of Saudi Arabica. 1993.                                                                                         Ref. DS221.P48 1993

Eliade, Mircea, ed. The Encyclopedia of Religion. 16 vols. 1987.                                                                                  Extensive articles on various topics of Islam, Muhammad, the Qur'ãn, etc.

Glassé, Cyril. The Concise Encyclopedia of Islam. 1989.                                                                                  Up-to-date one volume reference work on Islam.                         Ref. BP40.G42 1989

Rahman, H.U. A Chronology of Islamic History, 5700-1000 CE. 1989.                                                                                  Ref. BP55.R331 1989

The Dictionary of Art. 34 vols. 1996                                  Extensive treatments on all aspects of Islamic art.                          Ref. N31.D5 1996

Encyclopedia of World Art. 17 vols. 1959-1987.                   Articles on Arabian art and architecture, extensive illustrations.

Women in the Third World: an Encyclopedia of Contemporary Issues. 1998.                                                                           General essays on the social, economic and legal conditions.                                                                                Ref. HQ1870.9.W6548 1998

Tachau, Frank, ed. Political Parties of the Middle East and North Africa. 1994.                                                         Coverage is by country comprehensive.                                                                            Ref. JQ1758.A979 P65 1994

Language Dictionaries

Lubbadeh, Hani. Al-Nibras English - Arabic Dictionary. 1993.                                                                                          Ref. PJ6640.L831 1993

Badger, George Percy. An English-Arabic Lixicon. 1980, reprint of 1881 ed.                                                                      "… English words and idiomatic sentences are rendered into literary and colloquial Arabic."                                                       Ref. PJ6640.B3 1967

Blachère, Regis, et. al. Dictionnaire arabe-fran¸ ais-anglais = Arabic/French/English Dictionary. 3 vols. 1967-76.                                                                                    Ref. PJ6635.B6221 1967

Ghattas, Nabih. A Dictionary of Economics, Business and Finance: English-Arabic, with an Arabic Glossary. 1980                                                                                         Ref. HF1002.G42

Doniáh, N.S. ed. The Oxford English-Arabic Dictionary of Current Usage. 1983.                                                                                          Ref. PJ6640.O93

Qafisheh, Hamdi A. NTC's Gulf Arabic-English Dictionary. 1997.                                                                                       Ref. PJ6856.Q24 1997

Lane, Edward William. An Arabic-English Lexicon. 8 vols. 1955-56.                                                                                Reprint of 1863-93 London ed.                                                  Ref. PJ6640.L4 (Oversized Collection)

Indexes, Abstracts, Annuals

The Middle East: Abstracts and Index. 1978 -.                                                                                           Annual publication divided in five volumes, one is devoted to Maghreb-Sahel-Horn. Covers a wide range of topics from newspapers, journals, documents, etc.                                                                                            Ref. DS41.M44

Middle East: Contemporary Survey. 1977-.                               Annual, "acknowledged as the standard reference work on events and trends in the region… examining in detail the rapidly changing Middle Eastern scene in all its complexity."                                 Ref. DS62.8.M53

Index Islamicus.                                                                    Begun in 1906, quarterly with annual cumulation. Books, articles and reviews on Islam and the Muslim world, all subjects.                                                                                 Ref. Z7835.M6 L612

MLA International Bibliography. 1921 -.                               Indexes all modern literatures and languages. Also available online through FirstSearch.                                                                   Ref. P1.A1 M62

Historical Abstracts. 1955 -.                                                Indexes and abstracts books and articles on history from 1450 to the present. Also available online through WebLuis.                     Ref. D299.H5

Linguistics and Language Behavior Abstracts: LLBA, 1985 -.                                                                                          Especially useful for Arabic applied linguistics. Also available online through WebLuis.                                                             Ref. P1.L2

Linguistic Bibliography for the year …, 1949 -.                 Comprehensive annual bibliography on Arabic language and linguistics. Appears 3-4 years after date of citations.                     Ref. P121.B582

Bibliographies

Mille et un livres sur le monde arabe: Catalogue d'ouvrages de recherche et de documentation édités en France. 2^nd ed. 1989.                                                                                        Wide bibliographical coverage of French publications grouped by subject, of a country which has played a prominent role in Arabic scholarship.                                                                                 Ref. DS36.7.M541 1989

Sanchez, James J. Women in the Middle East and North Africa: a Bibliography. 2 vols. 1997.                                        Over 3000 records in 22 geographical areas. Information gathered from many sources, from newspapers to government documents, providing abstracts and full text documents.

McClintock, Marsha H. The Middle East and North Africa on Films: an Annotated Bibliography. 1982.                    Documentaries made from 1903 to 1980.                                   Ref. DS44.M43 1982

The Middle East in Conflict: a Historical Bibliography. 1985.                                                                            Annotations, journal literature only, by various specialists. A major reference tool.

World Bibliographical Series.                                                  This series, designed to cover every country and comprising annotated entries, in English, on the history, geography, economy and politics, peoples, culture, customs, religion and social organizations, now includes the following Arab countries. An important bibliographic resource. Algeria (Ref. DT275.L391 1995); Egypt (Ref. DT46.M321 1988); Lebanon (Ref. Z3483.L4 K48); Kuwait (Ref. DS247.K82 Z992x 1996); Lybia (Ref. DT236.L381 1987); The Maghreb (Ref. DT185.P39 1998); Morocco (Ref. Z3836.F56 1995); Saudi Arabia (Ref. DS204.C531 1988); Tunisia (Ref. Z3685.2.F5621); United Arab Emirates (Ref. DS247.T8 C541 1998); Yemen (Ref. DS247.Y4 A93 1998) and others.

Kimball, Michelle R., ed. Muslim Women throughout the World: a Bibliography. 1997.                                           Annotated guide to general books and articles on topics and people. Excellent index.                                                                Ref. HQ1170.K561 1997

Bullwinkle, Davis A. Women of Northern, Western and Central Africa: a Bibliography, 1976-1985.                                          Not annotated, by country and then by topic.                                 Ref. Q1787.B843 1989

Shinar, Pessah. Essai de bibliographie sélective et annotée sur l'Islam maghrébin contemporain: Maroc, Algérie, Tunisie, Lybie (1830-1978). 1983                                                         Ref. Z7835.M6 S5 1983

Bakalla, M.H. Arabic Linguistics: an Introduction and Bibliography. 1983.                                                                   Ref. Z7052.B35 1983

Makar, Ragai N. Modern Arabic Literature: a bibliography. 1998.                                                                                       "This bibliography is organized into twenty-seven major subject categories. It consists of 2,548 numbered entries, mainly of books, chapters in books, periodical articles, and individual poems. The sources are mainly in English with a few in Arabic and French. The Arabic sources include works which are not well represented in English translation, such as Israeli Arabic literature and literary studies by prominent Arab literary figures. The French sources cover North African literature."                                                    Ref. Z3014.L56 M35 1998

Anderson, Margaret. Arabic materials in English translation: a bibliography of works from the pre-Islamic period to 1977. 1980.                                                                                       Over 1600 items in history, political science, religion, literature and law. The Qur'ãn and Arabian Nights are not listed since the quality of the various translations has been well documented.                    Ref. Z3014.L56 A52

Altoma, Salih J. Modern Arabic poetry in English translation: a bibliography. 1993.                                                                Books and poems published in journals, listing 2000 poems by 350 poets.                                                                                 Ref. Z3014.L56 A46 1993

Aman, Mohammed M. Arab periodicals and serials. 1979.                                                                                          All subjects, from agriculture to women, 2711 entries.                   Ref. Z3013.5.A42

Silverburg, Sanford R. Middle East Bibliography. 1992              Books only, by subject or generic topic, persons, events or movements, listed alphabetically.                                                 Ref. Z3013.S54 1992

Grimwood-Jones, Diana. Middle East and Islam: a bibliographical introduction. 1979. And Auchterlonie, Paul. Middle East and Islam: a bibliographical introduction, supplement 1977-1983. 1986.                                                   All subjects, annotated listings with introductory material to each section by specialists.                                                                 Ref. Z3013.M48 1979