Middle Eastern Studies: History & Culture

Multidisciplinary section of the Web of Science covering scholarly literature in the arts and humanities.

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This database includes citations and selected full-text for key Humanities journals. Excellent for cross-discipline searching.

A collection of selected scholarly journals in humanities, social sciences, and sciences. Most titles do not include the most recent 3-5 years. For more current research, search one of our general or subject-specific databases.
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Full text of scholarly journals and books in the humanities and social sciences.

A source of bibliographic and publisher information on more than 300,000 periodicals of all types academic and scholarly journals, Open Access publications, peer-reviewed titles, popular magazines, newspapers, newsletters, and more from around the world.

Covering feminist research from journals, newspapers, newsletters, books, proceedings, theses, dissertations, and grey literature.

A comprehensive biographical resource with full-text articles in original typography. Information is grouped into different archives focused on a specific country or language/cultural area.

Indexes journal articles and scholarly essays on world religions and religious perspectives on social issues.

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Contains essays, biographies, and an extensive bibliography covering the history of relations between the faiths from 600 to 1500.

Presents the present state of our knowledge of the Islamic World.

An encyclopedic dictionary of quranic terms, concepts, personalities, place names, cultural history and exegesis extended with essays on the most important themes and subjects within quranic studies.

An international classified bibliography of publications in European languages on all aspects of Islam and the Muslim world. Click Sign out when finished.

Oxford Islamic Studies Online features reference content and commentary by renowned scholars in areas such as global Islamic history, concepts, people, practices, politics, and culture.

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"A wide range of written ethnographies, field notes, seminal texts, memoirs, and contemporary studies, covering human behavior the world over."

The comprehensive international resource for anthropology / archaeology.

Collection of full-text journals from the American Anthropological Association.

A full-text collection of archaeological materials, from the Human Relations Area Files.

Full-text collection of ethnographic documents.

This streaming video collection provides the largest, most comprehensive resource for the study of human culture and behavior. It covers every region of the world and features the work of many influential documentary filmmakers of the 20th century, including interviews, previously unreleased raw footage, field notes, study guides, and more. This collection is a channel on Alexander Street Video.

A complete archive from 1888 to the present that includes every page and every photograph. Click End Session when finished.

Indexes scholarly literature on world history, excluding the United States and Canada. Covers the time period from 1450 to the present. Limited to 6 simultaneous users.

Full-text of some of the most important works of European travel writing from the later medieval period. It features a number of medieval maps such as the famous Beatus and Psalter maps, individual manuscript illuminations, and some modern translations of key travel texts available as slideshow or individually.

Full-text of documents and published material of topics including history of flight, industrial development, and world's fairs. Includes Air & Space and Smithsonian magazine archives.

Full-text of hundreds of accounts by women of their travels across the globe from the early 19th century through to the 20th century. The documents include manuscripts, diaries, correspondence, and drawings. The topics covered range from race to local customs to war.