Middle East and North African Studies (MENA)

Cambridge University's full collection of early Qurʼānic manuscripts copied during the first four Centuries of Islam.

Works of history, literature, science, and religion.

Digital copies of over 280 manuscripts, 275 printed texts, and 50 maps dating from the 10th to the 20th centuries CE.

Digital manuscripts on a variety of topics, including theology, philosophy, literature, history, and science.

"The selection offers resources for exploring Western impressions of the Middle East in that era through the lens of practitioners of the new medium of photography, and in turn through the expectations, preferences, and assumptions of its consumers."

"A digital archive that focuses on Western interactions with the Middle East, particularly travels to Egypt during the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. TIMEA offers electronic texts such as travel guides, museum catalogs, and travel narratives, photographic and hand-drawn images of Egypt, and historical maps of Egypt and Cyprus."

Academic journals, dictionaries, manuscripts, and gazettes relating to the history of the middle east.

Government documents related to the middle east.

Historical maps of the middle east produced by the CIA.

Historical maps of Africa produced by the CIA.

In Arabic or English. Digitized books, articles about history and culture, images of UNESCO World Heritage sites, and audio and video.