Skip to Main Content
It looks like you're using Internet Explorer 11 or older. This website works best with modern browsers such as the latest versions of Chrome, Firefox, Safari, and Edge. If you continue with this browser, you may see unexpected results.

A Research Guide to Middle Eastern Studies: Useful Links

An introduction to resources both at Penn Libraries and freely available elsewhere online.

From Other Mid/Near East Librarians

This guide would not have been possible without the work of others before me.
Near/Middle Eastern Studies librarians.
Digital Islamic Humanities Project at Brown University
Open Access Digital Resources by Dagmar Riedel (Columbia University)
Guide to Research in Islamic Art and Architecture by András Riedlmayer (Harvard University)
Access to Middle East and Islamic Resources (AMIR) by Peter Magierski (Columbia University)
Islamic Manuscripts Studies Guide by Evyn Kropf (University of Michigan-Ann Arbor)
More to come.

Other tools

Hadith Report/Transmitter
This site has a word search feature (viz. a word in either the text of the hadith or in the name of the transmitter) and gives further information regarding that particular transmitter from the biographical literature as well as the location of the hadith and information on known chains of transmission