OF INTEREST

Access to Mideast and Islamic Resources (AMIR)  A tool to assemble and distribute information on open access material relating to the Middle East.

Hazine:  A guide to researching the Middle East and Beyond [ stopped updating in 2021]

How to Write about Africa is an essay by  Binyavanga Wainaina.

Islamic Africa –  A peer-reviewed, multidisciplinary, academic journal published by Northwestern University Press in collaboration with the Institute for the Study of Islamic Thought in Africa (ISITA), based at Northwestern University, Evanston. The journal incorporates Sudanic Africa, retaining its focus on historical sources, bibliographies, and methodologies.

Islamic Heritage Project at Harvard University – Islamic Heritage Project (IHP), has has produced digital copies of over 280 manuscripts, 275 printed texts, and 50 maps, totaling over 156,000 pages.

Kitab-Project– A digital tool-box and a forum for discussions about Arabic texts.

OpenGulf – Set of interconnected digital projects focusing on historical documentation about the [Arabian/Persian] Gulf

The Islamic Manuscript Association –  An an international non-profit organization dedicated to protecting Islamic manuscript collections and supporting those who work with them.

The Rabat Genizah Project – A digital library of  documents of the  Jewish population of Rabat, Morocco. The collection includes community records, photographs, public notices, pedagogical materials, poetic manuscripts, canonical Jewish texts, rabbinical commentaries, liturgical supplements, and a wide range of other published and unpublished materials.

World Digital Library The WDL makes it possible to discover, study, and enjoy cultural treasures from around the world on one site, in a variety of ways. These cultural treasures include, but are not limited to, manuscripts, maps, rare books, musical scores, recordings, films, prints, photographs, and architectural drawings.