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- [Leiden, The Netherlands] : Brill, 2022
- Description
- Book — 1 online resource (volumes) : illustrations (some color) Digital: text file.
- Database topics
- Islam and the Middle East; Religious Studies
- Summary
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"Brill's Middle East and Islamic Studies E-Books Online, Collection 2022 is the electronic version of the book publication program of Brill in the field of Middle East and Islamic Studies in 2022. Coverage: Islam, History, Culture, Language, Philosophy, Theology, Mysticism, Social and Political studies"
- The Digital Library of the Middle East = مكتبة الشرق الاوسط الرقمية
- [Washington, DC] : Council on Library and Information Resources, [2020]-
- Description
- 1 online resource : sound, color illustrations
- Database topics
- Islam and the Middle East; Religious Studies; Asian Studies (East, South & Southeast Asia; Middle East)
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The Digital Library of the Middle East (DLME) offers free and open access to the rich cultural legacy of the Middle East and North Africa. It brings together collections from a wide range of cultural heritage institutions. Developed by CLIR (Council on Library and Information Resources] and Stanford Libraries. The platform federates and makes accessible data about collections from around the world
- Gazetteer of the Persian Gulf, Oman and Central Arabia
- Lorimer, John Gordon, 1870-1914.
- Leiden, The Netherlands : Brill, [2020?]
- Description
- Book — 1 online resource Digital: text file.
- Database topics
- Islam and the Middle East; Religious Studies
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The Gazetteer of the Persian Gulf, Oman and Central Arabia is one of the most important European primary sources for the study of the modern Gulf region from the 17th to the early 20th century. The Gazetteer offers the fullest account of the state of knowledge of the region in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, and as such is both an unique and important tool for researchers. In addition to Lorimer's famous Gazetteer, this online reference work also contains official documents in Arabic and English and includes reports about the region published by various departments of the British Government
- Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2020
- Description
- Book — 1 online resource Digital: text file.
- Database topics
- Islam and the Middle East; Religious Studies
- Summary
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MEMO-4 offers 150 manuscripts that form the collection of Rafi' Shamghudi (1863-1932), a famous scholar and bibliophile from Shangoda, a town in central Dagestan. The collection, which consists of texts in Arabic and Persian, includes copies from the Timurid period. All metadata is LoC-compliant
5. Online companion to Mālik's Muwaṭṭaʼ [2019 -]
- Cambridge, Massachusetts : Program in Islamic Law, Harvard Law School, [2019?]-
- Description
- Journal/Periodical — 1 online resource : illustrations (some color)
- Database topics
- Islam and the Middle East; Religious Studies
- Summary
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"This Online Companion to the book, al-Muwaṭṭaʼ - Recension of Yaḥyā b. Yaḥyā (d. 234/848) by Mālik b. Anas (translated and edited by Mohammad Fadel and Connell Monette) (Program in Islamic Law/Harvard University Press, 2019), enables readers to explore the Muwaṭṭaʼ in greater detail, along with its place in Islamic legal history and the history of the medieval scholars who helped preserve it and transmit it to later generations. First and foremost, this Online Companion serves as a resource for introducing interested readers to the translation of this core work of Islamic law's founding period by including an online introduction to the print translation of the Royal Moroccan Edition of the Muwaṭṭaʼ, excerpts of the the English translation itself, and supplemental materials that will provide further biographical and historical background to the people, events, and ideas that inform the legal texts. In time, this Companion will also feature a searchable online version of the Arabic text of the Royal Moroccan Edition (drawn from multiple manuscripts and edited by a team of Moroccan scholars)."--Home page
6. Qurʼan tools [2019]
- [Purcellville, Virginia] : QGateway, Inc.
- Description
- 1 online resource
- Database topics
- Islam and the Middle East; Religious Studies
- Summary
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"Software for studying, searching, and exploring the Qur'an, its text, history, and formation"--Publisher's description
Includes text of 313 Qur'an manuscripts, several English translations, and a wide range of tools for analyzing and comparing texts and versions
7. History of the Arabic written tradition [2016 -]
- Geschichte der arabischen Litteratur. English
- Brockelmann, Carl, 1868-1956 author.
- Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2016-
- Description
- Book — volumes ; 25 cm.
- Database topics
- Islam and the Middle East; Religious Studies
- Summary
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- Introduction I. The task of literary history II. Sources and earlier accounts of the literary history of the Arabs III. Division of the history of Arabic literature First Book. The national literature of the Arabs First Section. From the beginnings until the appearance of Muhammad
- Chapter 1. The Arabic language
- Chapter 2. The beginnings of poetry
- Chapter 3. Forms of Arabic poetry
- Chapter 4. General characteristics of ancient Arabic poetry
- Chapter 5. The transmission of Arabic poetry
- Chapter 6. The sources for our knowledge of ancient Arabic poetry
- Chapter 7. The six poets
- Chapter 8. Other poets of pre-Islamic times
- Chapter 9. Jewish and Christian poets before Islam
- Chapter 10. The beginnings of Arabic prose Second Section. Muhammad and his time
- Chapter 1. Muhammad the Prophet
- Chapter 2. The Qur'an
- Chapter 3. Labid and al-A'sha
- Chapter 4. Hassan b. Thabit
- Chapter 5. Ka'b b. Zuhayr
- Chapter 6. Mutammin b. Nuwayra
- Chapter 7. Al-Khansa'
- Chapter 8. Abu Mihjan and al-Hutay'a
- Chapter 9. Minor poets
- Chapter 10. Two forgeries Third Section. The period of the Umayyads
- Chapter 1. General characteristics
- Chapter 2. 'Umar b. Abi Rabi'a
- Chapter 3. Other poets in Arabia
- Chapter 4. Al-Akhtal
- Chapter 5. Al-Farazdaq
- Chapter 6. Jarir
- Chapter 7. Dhu l-Rumma
- Chapter 8. The rajaz poets
- Chapter 9. Minor poets
- Chapter 10. Prose writing at the time of the Umayyads Second Book. Islamic literature in the Arabic language First section. The Classical period from ca. 750 until ca. 1000
- Chapter 1. Introduction
- Chapter 2. Poetry A. The poets of Baghdad B. Poets of Iraq and the Jazira C. Poets from Arabia and Syria D. The circle of Sayf al-Dawla E. Egyptian and North African poets
- Chapter 3. Rhymed prose
- Chapter 4. Philology I. The School of Basra II. The School of Kufa III. The School of Baghdad IV. Linguistics in Persia and the East V. Linguistics in Egypt and Spain
- Chapter 4. Historiography 1. The life of Muhammad 2. Urban history 3. The history of the pre-Islamic Arabs 4. Imperial and world history 5. Cultural and literary history 6. The history of Egypt and North Africa 7. The history of Spain
- Chapter 5. Belles lettres in prose
- Chapter 6. Hadith
- Chapter 7. Fiqh 1. The Hanafis 2. The Malikis 3. The Shafi'is 4. The lesser schools 5. The Shi'a 1. The Zaydis 2. The Imamis
- Chapter 8. Sciences of the Qur'an 1. The reading of the Qur'an 2. Qur'anic exegesis
- Chapter 9. Dogmatics
- Chapter 10. Mysticism
- Chapter 11. The translators
- Chapter 12. Philosophy
- Chapter 13. Mathematics
- Chapter 14. Astronomy and astrology
- Chapter 15. Geography
- Chapter 16. Medicine
- Chapter 17. Natural and occult sciences
- Chapter 18. Encyclopaedias Second Section. The post-Classical period of Islamic literature from ca. 400/1000 until ca. 656/1258
- Chapter 1. Poetry A. Poets of Baghdad, Iraq, and the Jazira B. Persian poets C. Syrian poets D. Arabian poets E. Egyptian poets F. North African and Sicilian poets G. Spanish poets
- Chapter 2. Rhymed prose and stylistics
- Chapter 3. Philology 1. Philology in Iraq 2. Philology in Persia and neighbouring countries 3. Philology in Syria 4. Philology in South Arabia 5. Philology in Egypt 6. Philology in North Africa and Sicily 7. Philology in Spain
- Chapter 4. Historiography 1. Individual biographies 2. Histories of dynasties 3. Histories of individuals and genealogies 4. Local history A. Baghdad B. Damascus C. Jerusalem D. Aleppo E. Dunaysir F. South Arabia G. Jurjan H. Egypt I. The Maghrib J. Spain 5. Histories of the caliphs and world history 6. Histories of prophets
- Chapter 5. Belles lettres in prose
- Chapter 6. Hadith 1. Iraq, the Jazira, Syria, and Arabia 2. Persia 3. Egypt and North Africa 4. Spain
- Chapter 7. Fiqh 1. The Hanafis 2. The Malikis 3. The Shafi'is 4. The Hanbalis 5. The Zahiris and Almohads 6. The Shi'a A. The Zaydis B. The Imamis
- Chapter 8. The sciences of the Qur'an 1. The art of reading the Qur'an 2. Qur'anic exegesis
- Chapter 9. Dogmatics
- Chapter 10. Mysticism
- Chapter 11. Philosophy and politics
- Chapter 12. Mathematics
- Chapter 13. Astronomy
- Chapter 14. Geography and travelogues
- Chapter 15. Medicine
- Chapter 16. A. Natural sciences and technology B. Games, sports, and war C. Music
- Chapter 17. Occult sciences
- Chapter 18. Encyclopaedias and polyhistors.
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- Preface Note to the Reader Transcription Third Book: The Decline of Islamic Literature First Section From Mongol Rule Until the Conquest of Egypt by Sultan Selim I in the Year 1517 Introduction
- Chapter 1. Egypt and Syria
- Chapter 2. Iraq and al-Jazira
- Chapter 3. North Arabia
- Chapter 4. South Arabia
- Chapter 5. Iran and Turan
- Chapter 6. India
- Chapter 7. The Turks of Rum and the Ottomans
- Chapter 8. North Africa
- Chapter 9. Spain Second Section From the Conquest of Egypt by Sultan Selim I in 1517 to the Napoleonic Expedition to Egypt in 1798
- Chapter 1. Egypt and Syria
- Chapter 2. Al-Jazira, Iraq, and Bahrain
- Chapter 3. North Arabia
- Chapter 4. South Arabia
- Chapter 5. Oman, East Africa, and Abyssinia
- Chapter 6. Iran and Turan
- Chapter 7. India
- Chapter 8. The Malay Archipelago
- Chapter 9. Rumelia and Anatolia
- Chapter 10. The Maghreb
- Chapter 11. The Sudan Third Section From the Napoleonic Expedition to Egypt Until the British Occupation
- Chapter 1. Egypt
- Chapter 2. Syria
- Chapter 3. Mesopotamia and Iraq
- Chapter 4. North Arabia
- Chapter 5. South Arabia
- Chapter 6. Oman
- Chapter 7. Persia
- Chapter 8. Afghanistan
- Chapter 9. India
- Chapter 10. Ceylon, Farther India, and the Malay Archipelago
- Chapter 11. Istanbul
- Chapter 12. Russia
- Chapter 13. The Maghreb
- Chapter 14. The Sudan Appendix. A Selective Listing of Authors of Unknown Place and Date, in Alphabetical Order 1 Poetry 2 Rhymed Prose and Popular Literature 3 Philology 4 Historiography 5 Hadith 6 Fiqh 7 Sciences of the Qur'an 8 Dogmatics and Polemics 9 Mysticism and Edifying Works 10 Philosophy and Politics 11 Mathematics and Astronomy 12 Geography and Cosmography 13 Medicine 14 Eroticism 15 Natural Sciences and Technology 16 Alchemy 17 Music 18 Sports 19 Occult Sciences 20 Encyclopaedias.
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- Preface Note to the Reader Transcription Introduction I The Task of Literary History II Sources and Earlier Accounts of the Literary History of the Arabs III Division of the History of Arabic Literature First Book: The National Literature of the Arabs First Section From the Beginnings until the Appearance of Muhammad
- Chapter 1. The Arabic Language
- Chapter 2. The Beginnings of Poetry
- Chapter 3. The Forms of Arabic Poetry
- Chapter 4. The Nature of Ancient Arabic Poetry
- Chapter 5. The Transmission of Arabic Poetry
- Chapter 6. Sources for our Knowledge of Ancient Arabic Poetry
- Chapter 7. The Six Poets
- Chapter 8. Other Poets of Pre-Islamic Times
- Chapter 9. Jewish and Christian Poets before Islam
- Chapter 10. The Beginnings of Arabic Prose Second Section Muhammad and His Time
- Chapter 1. Muhammad the Prophet
- Chapter 2. The Qur'an
- Chapter 3. Labid and al-A'sha
- Chapter 4. Hassan b. Thabit
- Chapter 5. Ka'b b. Zuhayr
- Chapter 6. Mutammim b. Nuwayra
- Chapter 7. Al-Khansa'
- Chapter 8. Abu Mihjan and al-Khutay'a
- Chapter 9. Minor Poets
- Chapter 10. Pseudo-'Alid Literature Third Section The Period of the Umayyads
- Chapter 2. 'Umar b. Abi Rabi'a
- Chapter 3. Other Poets in Arabia
- Chapter 4. Al-Akhtal
- Chapter 5. Al-Farazdaq
- Chapter 6. Jarir
- Chapter 7. Dhu l-Rumma
- Chapter 9. Minor Poets
- Chapter 10. Prose Writing at the Time of the Umayyads Second Book: Islamic Literature in the Arabic Language First Section The Classical Period from ca. 750 until ca. 1000
- Chapter 2. Poetry Chapter 2a. Rhymed Prose
- Chapter 3. Philology
- Chapter 4. Historiography
- Chapter 5. Popular Literature in Prose and Works for General Education
- Chapter 6. Hadith
- Chapter 7. Fiqh
- Chapter 8. Qur'anic Sciences
- Chapter 9. Dogmatics
- Chapter 10. Mysticism
- Chapter 12. Philosophy
- Chapter 13. Mathematics
- Chapter 14. Astronomy and Astrology
- Chapter 15. Geography
- Chapter 16. Medicine
- Chapter 17. Natural and Occult Sciences, Varia
- Chapter 18. Encyclopaedias Second Section The post-Classical Period of Islamic Literature, from ca. 400/1000 until ca. 656/1258 Introduction
- Chapter 1. Poetry
- Chapter 2. Rhymed Prose and Stylistics
- Chapter 3. Philology
- Chapter 4. Historiography
- Chapter 5. Belles lettres in Prose
- Chapter 6. Hadith
- Chapter 7. Fiqh
- Chapter 8. Qur'anic sciences
- Chapter 9. Dogmatics
- Chapter 10 Mysticism
- Chapter 11. Philosophy and Politics
- Chapter 12. Mathematics
- Chapter 13. Astronomy
- Chapter 14. Travelogues and Geographies
- Chapter 15. Medicine
- Chapter 16. Natural Sciences and Technology
- Chapter 16. Appendix
- Chapter 17. Occult Sciences
- Chapter 18. Encyclopedias and Polyhistors Addenda & Corrigenda.
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8. LexiQamus [2016 -]
- [Place of publication not identified] : [publisher not identified], [2016-]
- Description
- 1 online resource
- Database topics
- Language; Islam and the Middle East; Religious Studies
- Summary
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LexiQamus is a website that aims to help researchers in deciphering illegible words in Ottoman manuscripts. Based on the legible letters and the symbols for illegible letters entered into the boxes, LexiQamus's special algorithm provides a list of possible words matching the given restrictions
- Farmington Hills, Michigan : Gale Cengage Learning, [2015]-
- Description
- 1 online resource
- Database topics
- Islam and the Middle East; Religious Studies; History of Science and Technology
- Summary
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- Module 1: Religion and Law
- Module 2: Sciences, History, and Geography
- Module 3: Periodicals, Literature, Grammar, Language, Catalogues and General Works
- Leiden : Brill, 2015.
- Description
- Book — 1 online resource : color illustrations
- Database topics
- Islam and the Middle East; Religious Studies
- Summary
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"This collection consists of 200 manuscripts with just over 300 works. In addition to 5 autographs, the highlights of the collection include: the earliest dated manuscript in the collection (Arab O. 013) a dated copy of a unique arrangement of a rare treatise written by al-Ṣāḅib Tāḡ al-Dīn (d. 707/1307) produced in the year of the author's death; two rare Mamluk treatises on horsemanship (Arab F.2); and an anonymous compilation (Arab O. 027) about the lives of the outstanding men who lived in Medina in the 12th/18th century."--Home page.
- [Minneapolis, Minn.] : East View Information Services, 2015-
- Description
- 1 online resource
- Database topics
- News; Islam and the Middle East; Religious Studies; History; Slavic and Eastern European Studies
- Summary
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This database includes newspapers from the Latvia, Lithuania, Estonia, Ukraine, Moldova and Belarus and includes periodicals published in these newly independent states which used to be part of the Soviet Union. The sources are in mostly in Russian and cover various issues of domestic and international importance.
12. Universal databases. Central Asia and Caucasus [2015 -]
- [Minneapolis, Minn.] : East View Information Services, 2015-
- Description
- 1 online resource
- Database topics
- News; Islam and the Middle East; Religious Studies; History; Slavic and Eastern European Studies
- Summary
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This database includes a number of authoritative periodicals published in the Newly Independent States of the former Soviet Union. The sources are mostly in Russian and English and cover various issues of domestic and international importance.
- Arabic collections online = المجموعات العربية على الانترنت
- [New York, New York] : University Digital Library Technology Services, NYU Libraries, [2014]-
- Description
- Journal/Periodical
- Database topics
- Islam and the Middle East; Religious Studies
- Summary
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Arabic Collections Online (ACO) is a publicly available digital library of public domain Arabic language content. Funded by New York University Abu Dhabi, this mass digitization project aims to expose up to 15,000 volumes from NYU and partner institutions over a period of five years. NYU and the partner institutions are contributing all types of material--literature, business, science, and more--from their Arabic language collections. ACO will provide digital access to printed books drawn from rich Arabic collections of prominent libraries
- First edition. - Oxford, United Kingdom ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2014.
- Description
- Book — xxx, 1966 pages ; 27 cm
- Database topics
- Islam and the Middle East; Religious Studies
- Summary
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Endorsed by academics worldwide, the Oxford Arabic Dictionary is the most authoritative English-Arabic / Arabic-English dictionary ever published. Based on real modern evidence and computational analysis of hundreds of millions of words of both English and Modern Standard Arabic (the standardized variety of Arabic used in writing and in most formal speech), the dictionary boasts more than 130,000 words and phrases and 200,000 translations. This up-to-date resource has been designed for both Arabic and English native speakers and includes the latest vocabulary from computing, business, the media, and the arts, across both languages. The organization and layout have been designed for maximum clarity and ease of use. The most commonly used sense of each word is shown first, helping you to identify and understand the correct meaning, and more than 70,000 real-life example phrases help you interpret meaning and usage accurately. All Arabic text is shown with vowels to aid the learner of Arabic in pronunciation and comprehension and the Arabic-English section of the dictionary is usefully organised by root, which are listed alphabetically. The dictionary is also packed with extra features including tables of Arabic verbs, Arabic numbers, dates, and years, and irregular English verbs. Produced using the unique dictionary resources of Oxford University Press with an international team of expert advisors, the Oxford Arabic Dictionary is a ground-breaking work, essential for any serious student of Arabic and English, as well as academics, professionals, business people, teachers, and translators.
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- Leiden : Brill, 2012.
- Description
- Book — 1 online resource : color illustrations
- Database topics
- Islam and the Middle East; Religious Studies
- Summary
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Leiden University Library has a world famous collection of Middle Eastern Manuscripts. Its core collection is brought together by, among others, the Leiden Orientalists Joseph Justus Scaliger and Jacobus Golius. Included in the Scaliger collection are about a dozen manuscripts which belonged to Franciscus Raphelengius. These collections consist of extremely rare, sometimes unique, manuscripts.. The publication consists of 267 Arabic manuscripts in 303 volumes, amounting to 109.517 pages, in full-colour, images.
- Leiden : Brill, 2012.
- Description
- Book — 1 online resource : color illustrations
- Database topics
- Islam and the Middle East; Religious Studies
- Summary
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This online publication consists of 140 volumes from the Warner Collection, totaling 45,809 pages of Ottoman Turkish, Arabic, and Persian texts. All these manuscripts were acquired by the great scholar Levinus Warner during his stay in Istanbul from 1644 until his death in 1665. This selection from the famous Warner Legacy to the Leiden University Libraries includes one autograph (Codex Orientalis 432), 10 unique manuscripts (Cod. Or. 498; 517; 801; 870; 1088; 1090; 1096; 1110; 1143; 1155; and 1175), and 11 manuscripts with unique parts (Cod. Or. 309; 333; 662; 697; 730; 765; 835; 870; 898; 917; and 923). Several manuscripts once belonged to famous owners; for example, Cod. Or. 1122 originates from the private library of the Ottoman polymath and historian Kâtib Çelebi (d. 1657). The collection also includes several of Warner's diaries with research notes in various languages.
17. Ethnographic video online [electronic resource]. [2010 -]
- [Alexandria, Va.] : Alexander Street Press, c2010-
- Description
- Video
- Database topics
- African Studies; Anthropology and Archaeology; Asian Studies (East, South & Southeast Asia; Middle East); East Asia Studies; Film and Media Studies; French and Italian Studies; Geography; Islam and the Middle East; Religious Studies; Jewish Studies; Language; Music; Race and Ethnicity; Slavic and Eastern European Studies; Social Sciences (General); Spanish, Portuguese and Latin American Studies
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Intended to be a visual encyclopedia of human behavior and culture, online in streaming video. Contains classic and contemporary documentaries; previously unpublished footage from working anthropologists and ethnographers in the field; and select feature films. Includes footage from every continent and hundreds of unique cultures. Thematic areas include: language and culture, kinesthetics, body language, food and foraging, cooking, economic systems, social stratification and status, caste systems and slavery, male and female roles, kinship and families, political organization, conflict and conflict resolution, religion and magic, music and the arts, culture and personality, and sex, gender, and family roles.
- مكتبة المنهل الالكترونية : محتوى عربي وعلمي موثوق عالميا
- [Dubai] : Al Manhal, [2010]-
- Description
- 1 online resource : sound, color illustrations
- Database topics
- Islam and the Middle East; Religious Studies; Asian Studies (East, South & Southeast Asia; Middle East)
- Summary
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This ebook library has hundreds of thousands of full-text searchable publications (books, peer-reviewed journals, strategic studies, academic dissertations and educational videos) from the Arab world's leading publishers, across a diverse range of topics. An user manual and video tutorials are avaliable in the help menu
19. OpenEdition. Books [2010 -]
- Marseille, France : Cléo/OpenEdition
- Description
- 1 online resource.
- Database topics
- French and Italian Studies; African Studies; Islam and the Middle East; Religious Studies; History; Spanish, Portuguese and Latin American Studies; Social Sciences (General)
- Summary
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A bundle of humanities and social sciences books published on Revues.org from OpenEdition.
20. OpenEdition. Journals catalogue [2010 -]
- Marseille, France : Cléo/OpenEdition.
- Description
- 1 online resource.
- Database topics
- French and Italian Studies; Spanish, Portuguese and Latin American Studies; Islam and the Middle East; Religious Studies; African Studies
- Summary
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A bundle of humanities and social sciences journals published on Revues.org from OpenEdition.
- Online
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- www.openedition.org Full text search box at upper right of the screen.
- Google Books (Full view)