Welcome to the Middle East Virtual Library
The Middle East Virtual Library (MENALIB) is an information portal for Middle East, North African, and Islamic Studies. It provides access to electronic fulltext materials or electronic bibliographical records of printed materials and manuscripts.
The technical basis for this Virtual Library is maintained by the State- and University Library Saxony-Anhalt in Halle (Germany). At the same time, MENALIB integrates the efforts of many institutions and individuals in order to provide information as comprehensive as possible.
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With deep sorrow we announce the sudden death of Dr. Lutz Wiederhold. He was the initiator and long standing director of the MENALIB. He passed away March 18, 2012.
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Events
Workshop Arabic Manuscript Studies: An Introduction 2012, 19-23 March, Berlin, Staatsbibliothek Preussischer Kulturbesitz
34th conference of MELCOM International, 2012, Paris, France
MESA Annual Meeting, 2012, November 17-20, Denver, CO, USA
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27.2.2012 Digitzation of Islamic manuscripts at Bošnjački institut, Sarajevo complete
23.02.2012 Journal MELA Notes published by the Middle East Librarians Association available in JSTOR
22.02.2012 Volume 156.2006 of the Zeitschrift der Deutschen Morgenlaendischen Gesellschaft online
20.02.2012 Workshop on Arabic, Persian and Turkish manuscripts and other written texts form the Muslim world, Leiden Institute for the Study of Islam and Society and Sclaliger Institute, 28 May-8 June 2012
16.02.2012 Leiden University Libraries and Brill digitize 110,000 Pages of Middle Eastern Manuscripts
25.01.2012 International summerschool "Islamic Manuscripts" at Universitätsbibliothek Leipzig 23 - 30 September 2012
21.12.2011: Cambridge Digital Library - Islamic Manuscripts online
30.10.2011: MENAdoc - the electronic fulltext repository of MENALIB provides open access to 4.000 books, articles, and reports in Middle East and Islamic studies
31.05.2011: Minassian Collection of Qur'anic Manuscripts now online at http://library.brown.edu/quran
28.03.2011: Bibliothèque universitaire des Langues et civilisations (BULAC), Paris to be opened in autumn 2011. [more]
25.01.2010: Arabic edition of Encylopedia of Women and Islamic Cultures first volume online for free download
21.12.2009: Harvard Islamic Heritage Project - online
28.08.2009: Online Journal al-Kalima with Arabic Journals Digital Archive (AJDA) provides acces to electronic copies of important Arabic literary journals
25.08.2009: Digital Library on Oriental Christianity - Bibliothek Goussen - online created by ULB Bonn
14.08.2009: African Studies Virtual Library ILISSAfrica coordinated by University Library Frankfurt (Main) online.
15.07.2009: Database of the Refaiya Manuscript Collection at Universität Leipzig online
14.07.2009: Oriental Manuscript Resource (OMAR) Database produced at the Universität Freiburg im Breisgau online