The University Forum:
The Global Response to Terrorism

Some Origins of the Crisis 
THE MIDDLE EAST, POLITICS AND RELIGION

Searching SUMMIT (SU Library catalog) Middle East Islam Audiovisual Resources Indexes & Databases

Electronic Journals Print Journals Maps Centers for Middle Eastern Studies, Politics and Religion

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Searching SUMMIT (SU Library catalog)

Subject headings to search in order to locate pertinent books and other resources within the Syracuse University Library's circulating collection include:
 

Islam  Islam History  Islam 20th Century  Islam and Politics  Islam and State  Islamic Fundamentalism  Middle East  Middle East Economic Conditions

Middle East History  Middle East History 20th Century  Middle East Religion  Middle East Social Conditions  Middle East Social Life and Customs  Taliban  *also: search individual country names  (e.g., Afghanistan, Pakistan, etc.)

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Middle East (print resources)

Adams, Michael. The Middle East. REF DS44 .H35 1988 Bird Lib. Reference- 1st fl.

Anderson, Roy. Politics and Change in the Middle East. KV1 Bird Lib. Reserves- 2nd fl.

Amjad, Ali S. The Muslim World Today. REF DS 35.6 .A53 1985 Bird Lib. Reference- 1st fl.

Arendt, Hannah.  On Violence. HM291 .A693  Bird Lib. Reserves - 2nd  fl.

Bidwell, Robin Leonard. Dictionary of Modern Arab History. REF DS38.9.B53 1998 Bird Lib.- Reference 1st fl.

Cooley, John K.  Unholy Wars : Afghanistan, America and International Terrorism. JZ1480.A57 A3 2000  Bird Lib. Reserves - 2nd  fl.

Diller, Daniel C. The Middle East. REF DS63.1 .M484 1995 Bird Lib.- Reference 1st fl.

East, Roger. Political Parties of Africa and the Middle East: A Reference Guide. REF JQ39 .A45 .P65 1993 Bird Lib.- Reference 1st fl.

Europa World Year Book. (annual) REF JN1.E891 Bird Library - Reference Desk 1st fl.

Korbani, Agnes G.  The Political Dictionary of the Modern Middle East. REF DS43.K67 1995 Bird Lib. - Reference 1st fl.

Lewis, Bernard. (1997). The West and the Middle East. Foreign Affairs 76(1), 114-130 KV2 Bird Lib.- Reserves- 2nd fl.

Marsden, Peter. The Taliban: War, Religion and the New Order in Afghanistan. DS371.2 .M373 1998 Bird Lib.-2nd fl.

The Middle East in Conflict: A Historical Bibliography. REF DS119.7 .M4715 1985 Bird Lib.- Reference 1st fl.

Mostyn, Trevor. The Cambridge Encyclopedia of the Middle East and North Africa. REF DS44 .C37 1988 Bird Lib.- Reference 1st fl.

Rashid, Ahmed. Taliban: Militant Islam, oil, and fundamentalism in Central Asia. DS371.2 .R367 2000 Bird Lib.-2nd fl.

Reich, Bernard. Handbook of Political Science Research on the Middle East and North Africa. REF JQ1758 .A58 .H36 1998 Bird Lib.- Reference 1st fl.

Reich, Bernard. An Historical Encyclopedia of the Arab-Israeli Conflict. REF DS119.7 .H544 1996 Bird Lib.- Reference 1st fl.

Rosenberg, Jerry Martin. Encyclopedia of the Middle East Peace Process and the Middle East/North Africa Economic Community. REF DS119.76 .R67 1997 Bird Lib.- Reference 1st fl.

Sela, Avraham. Political Encyclopedia of the Middle East. REF DS62.8.P64 1999  Bird Lib. -   Reference 1st fl.

Shavit, David. The United States in the Middle East: A Historical Dictionary. REF DS63.2 .U5 .S384 1988 Bird Lib.- Reference 1st fl.

Shimoni, Yaacov. The Biographical Dictionary of the Middle East. REF DS62.4 .S53 1991 Bird Lib.- Reference 1st fl.

Silverburg, Sanford R. Middle East. REF DS44 .S54 1992 Bird Lib.- Reference 1st fl.

Tachau, Frank. Political Parties of the Middle East and North Africa. REF JQ1758 .A979 .P65 1994  Bird Lib. - Reference 1st fl.

Tessler, Mark. Area Studies and Social Science: Strategies for Understanding Middle East Politics. H62 .A6626 1999 Bird Lib.- 3rd fl.

Ziring, Lawrence. The Middle East: A Political Dictionary. REF DS61 .Z58 1992 Bird Lib.- Reference 1st fl.
 

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Islam (print & online resources)

Ali, Muhammad. The Holy Qur-an. REF BP100 1973B Bird Lib.- Reference 1st fl.

Amjad, Ali S. The Muslim World Today. REF DS 35.6 .A53 1985 Bird Lib.- Reference 1st fl.

Armstrong, Karen. Muhammad : a Biography of the Prophet. BP75 .A76 1992  Bird Lib. Reserves - 2nd fl.

Congressional Quarterly - Special Issue on Terrorism, Middle East, and Islamic Fundamentalism
http://www.cqpress.com/context/toc.html

Esposito, John L. The Oxford Encyclopedia of the Modern Islamic World. REF DS35.53 .O95 1995 Bird Lib.- Reference 1st fl.

Esposito, John L. The Oxford History of Islam.  REF BP50. O95 1999 Bird Lib. - Reference 1st fl.

Geddes, C.L. An Analytical Guide to the Bibliographies on Islam, Muhammad and the Qur an. REF Z7835 .M6 .A54 NO.3 Bird Lib.- Reference 1st fl.

Gibb, H.A.R. The Encyclopedia of Islam. REF DS37 .E523 Bird Lib.- Reference 1st fl.

Glasse, Cyril. The Concise Encyclopedia of Islam. REF BP40 .G42 1989 Bird Lib.- Reference 1st fl.

Guide to Islam. BP161.2 .G84 1983 (oversize) Bird Lib.- 2nd fl.

Juergensmeyer, Mark.  Terror in the Mind of God:  The Global Rise of Religious Violence. BL65.V55 J84 2000  Bird Lib. Reserves-2nd fl.

Kassis, Hanna E. A Concordance of the Qur'an. REF BP133 .K37 1983 Bird Lib.- Reference 1st fl.

Kelsay, John.  Islam and War:  A Study in Comparative Ethics. BP190.5.W35 K44 1993  Bird Lib. Reserves - 2nd fl.

Knappert, Jan. The Encyclopedia of Middle Eastern Mythology and Religion. REF BL1060 .K58 1993 Bird Lib.- Reference 1st fl.

Koran [online] - Electronic Text Center, University of Virginia http://religionanddemocracy.lib.virginia.edu/tocs/koran.html

Lawrence, Bruce B.  Shattering the Myth:  Islam Beyond Violence. BP163 .L34 1998  Bird Lib. Reserves - 2nd fl.

Mir, Mustansir. Dictionary of Qur' anic Terms and Concepts. REF BP133 .M57 1987 Bird Lib. -Reference 1st fl.

Netton, Ian Richard. A Popular Dictionary of Islam. REF BP40 .N48 1992 Bird Lib.- Reference 1st fl.

Ovendale, Ritchie. The Longman Companion to the Middle East Since 1914. REF DS62.4 .O94 1998 Bird Lib. -Reference 1st fl.

Partner, Peter.  God of Battles:   Holy Wars of Christianity and Islam.  Bird Lib. - BT736.2 .P37 1998 Bird Lib. Reserves - 2nd fl.

Renard, John.  Seven Doors to Islam:  Spirituality and the Religious Life of Muslims. BP161.2 .R47 1996  Bird Lib. Reserves - 2nd fl.

Robinson, Francis. The Cambridge Illustrated History of the Islamic World. REF DS35.63 .C35 1996 Bird Lib.- Reference 1st fl.

Ruthven, Malise.  Islam:  A Very Short Introduction. BP161.2 .R86 1997  Bird Lib. Reserves - 2nd fl.

Sharif, Mian Mohammad. A History of Muslim Philosophy: with Short Accounts of Other Disciplines and the Modern Renaissance in Muslim Lands. REF B741 .S46 Bird Lib.- Reference 1st fl.

Smith, Jane I. Islam in America. REF BP67 .U6 .S6 1999 Bird Lib.- Reference 1st fl.
 

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Audiovisual Resources
Examples of videotapes available at the University Library’s Media Services - Lower Level, Bird Library:

Edward Said on Orientalism.-- Videocassette 8109.

Fighting for Oil.-- Videocassette 7518.

Five Pillars of Islam.-- Videocassette.

The Holocaust and "Yad Vashem" ; Displaced Persons.--Videocassette 9608.

Holy Land: Judaism, Christianity and Islam in the Middle East.--Videocassette 6315.

Honorable murder.-- Videocassette 8350.

Islam, Empire of Faith - Videocassette 9646

Jihad.-- Videocassette 7241.

Quest for Change: Civil Society in the Middle East.-- Videocassette 6852.

Seyyed Hossein Nasr: The Islamic Mind. -- Videocassette 6853.

The Shadow of the West.-- Videocassette 6253.

Women and Islam.-- Videocassette 6761.
 

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Indexes & Databases
Database Menu available at http://library.syr.edu/research/database/index.html

Search the following for coverage of the Middle East or Islam within scholarly journals, magazines and newspapers
 

ATLA Religion CIAO:  Columbia International Affairs Online Global Newsbank Historical Abstracts  Index Islamicus International Political Science Abstracts LEXIS/NEXIS Academic Universe Middle East: Abstracts and Index  PAIS International

Online Database Online Database Online Database Online Database REF Z7835.M6.L62 Index area Bird 1st fl. Online Database Online Database REF DS41.M44  Index area Bird 1st fl. Online Database

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Electronic Journals
E - Journal collections are available at http://libsfx.syr.edu:9003/syracuse/az

See journal collections assembled by Project Muse, Kluwer Academic Publishers, Blackwell Publishers, Oxford University Press and JSTOR for full-text online journals such as:

Project Muse: Journal of World History, Modern Judaism, Israel Studies, World Politics
Kluwer:  Non-State Actors and International Law
Blackwell: Middle East Report, Journal of Religious History, Middle East Policy, OPEC Review
Oxford:  Journal of Islamic Studies
JSTOR: American Journal of International Law, International Organization
 

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Print Journals

Search SUMMIT online catalog for locations of the following journals:

-Middle East-
 

International Journal of Middle East Studies Journal of Near Eastern Studies Journal of South Asian and Middle Eastern Studies Middle East Middle East and South Asia

Middle East Journal Middle East Magazine Middle East Review Middle Eastern Studies Near East/South Asia Report

-Islam-
 

American Journal of Islamic Social Sciences Islam and the Modern Age Islamic Culture Islamic Horizons Islamic Studies

Journal of Islamic Studies Minaret Muslim World Review of Religions Voice of Islam

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Maps (print & online)

Afghanistan Maps & Data Products (Geocommunity Geographic Information Systems Website)
- http://spatialnews.geocomm.com/dailynews/2001/sep/11/datasources.html

Fargues, Philippe. The Atlas of the Arab World. G1785.F3  1991 Bird Library-Atlas Coll., 3rd fl.

Holy Land (National Geographic Society Cartographic Division). G7421 .S1 1989 .G4 Bird Library-Maps, 3rd fl.

Middle East Maps [online]- Perry-Castaneda Library (University of Texas at Austin) -http://www.lib.utexas.edu/maps/middle_east

The Middle East Crisis. G7420 1991 .H3 Bird Library-Maps, 3rd fl.
 

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Centers for Middle Eastern Studies, Politics and/or Religion

Africa & Middle Eastern Reading Room (The Library of Congress)
http://www.loc.gov/rr/amed/

Center for Afghanistan Studies (University of Nebraska at Omaha)
http://www.unomaha.edu/~world/cas/cas.html

Center for Contemporary Arab Studies (Georgetown University)
http://www.ccasonline.org

Center for Judaic Studies (University of Pennsylvania)
http://www.library.upenn.edu/cjs/

Center for Middle Eastern Studies (Harvard University)
http://www.fas.harvard.edu/~mideast/

Center for Middle Eastern Studies (University of California at Berkeley)
http://www.ias.berkeley.edu/cmes

Center for Middle Eastern Studies (University of Chicago)
http://www.cmes.uchicago.edu

Center for Middle Eastern Studies (University of Texas at Austin)
http://link.lanic.utexas.edu/menic/cmes/

Center for Policy Analysis on Palestine (Washington, DC)
http://www.palestinecenter.org/framecpap.html

Institute for Palestine Studies (Washington, DC)
http://www.ipsjps.org

Middle East Center (University of Utah)
http://www.hum.utah.edu/mec/

Middle East Institute (Washington, DC)
http://www.mideasti.org

Middle East Studies Association of North America (University of Arizona)
http://w3fp.arizona.edu/mesassoc/

Seminar on Multilateral Peacekeeping (Program on the Analysis and Resolution of Conflicts, Maxwell School of Public Affairs, Syracuse University)
http://www.maxwell.syr.edu/ir/unpeace.htm
 

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