Origins of Key Geographical Terms
- "Anatolia"
- "Andalus"
- "al-Aqsa"
- "Baghdad"
- "Byzantium,"Constantinople," and "Istanbul"
- "Cairo"
- "Egypt" and"Misr"
- "Fertile Crescent"
- "Hijaz"
- "Iraq"
- "Israel"
- "Lebanon"
- "Maghrib" and "Morocco"
- "Medina"
- "Middle East"
- "Palestine"
- "Sharq"
- "Silk Road"
- "Sublime Porte"
- "Temple Mount" and "Dome of the Rock"
- "Zion"
History by Region or State
- Afghanistan
- Algeria
- Andalus (Spain)
- Egypt
- Europe
- Iran
- Iraq
- Israel
- Jordan
- Kashmir
- Lebanon
- Libya
- Ottoman Empire and Turkey
- Pakistan
- Palestinian Territories
- Saudi Arabia- (see alsoThe Wahhabi Movement)
- Sudan
- Syria
- The United States and the Middle East
History by Time Period
- Ancient Period, 3500 BCE to 587 BCE
- Persian, Greek, Roman, Byzantine Eras, 500 BCE - 520 CE
- Muhammad and Early Islamic Period, 570-632
- Early Islamic Conquests, 632-661
- Early Medieval Period, 661-1091
- High Middle Ages, 1095-1500
- Safavid and Ottoman Periods, 1500-1914
- World War I and the Early Mandate Period, 1914-1929
- Later Mandate Period Including World War II, 1930-1947
- The Arab-Israeli Wars, 1948-1973
- Civil War (Lebanon), Revolution (Iran), Uprising (Palestine), 1974-1989
- Gulf War II and the "New World Order," 1990-1992
- Oslo and Aftermath, 1993-1994
- Creating Facts on the Ground, 1995-1999
- Changing of the Guard, 2000-2001
- The Middle East After September 11, 2001
- The Middle East Under Pax Americana, 2003-2004
- The Middle East Under Pax Americana, 2005-2006
- Cracks in the Pax Americana, 2006-2008
- Cracks in the Pax Americana, 2009
Special Topics
- An Overview of Islam
- Benchmarks in Islamic History
- Contemporary Muslim Proof of God
- Islam and Women
- Models of Islamic Revivalism
Islamic Culture
History
- The Arab-Israeli Wars
- Roots
- 1948
- 1956
- 1967
- 1973
- Palestinian Intifadas: 1987, 2000
- War: Summer, 2006
- Peace Initiatives
- The Gulf Wars
- Iraq and Iran, 1980-88
- Iraq Occupies Kuwait, 1990
- Toppling Saddam, 2002-03
- Coalition Provisional Authority Rule, 2003-04
- "Sovereign" Iraq, 2004-05
- Civil War in Iraq, 2006-07
- The New Iraq, 2008-09
- Benchmarks in the History of Modern Iraq
- BBC Iraq pages
- Map of Iraq (Univ. Texas)
Other
Resources
- Islamic Middle East Blog
- Bibliography
- Search NMH Library
- Maps at Univ.Texas
- Qur'an Index (USC)
- Search Qur'an (USC)
- Search Hadith (USC)
- Websites
- INTUTE
- Al-Bab.com
- BBC's "Islam Around the World"
- U.N. Site Index
- United Nations Documents (Yale's AvalonProject)
- United Nations Documents on Palestine
- United Nations Arab Human Development Reports
- UNISPAL ( United Nations Information System on the Question of Palestine) Documents
- U.N. Human Rights
- U.N. Women Watch
- World Factbook (from the CIA: for country-by-country statistics)
- Library of Congress Country Studies
- BBC Middle East Countries Profiles
- Economist.com Country Briefings
- Pew Global Attitudes Project
- Earthtrends (world demographic data)
- EIA Petroleum Supply Monthly (Acrobat Reader required for some reports)
- Excerpts from the Arabic Press (in translation)
- News Resources
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