Simpson Library: HIST 339: Modern Middle East History: Overviews

Overviews

Read overviews to quickly grasp the basics of your topic, and to find clues to follow up on (such as citations to other sources). Don't cite overviews.

In Simpson Library, find overviews in the Reference section on the first floor. I recommend these Reference books:

Encyclopaedia of Islam, Second Edition
Call Number: REFB DS37 .E523
Publication Date: 1954–2005
The second edition is a complete set, and the articles are longer than the articles in the third edition, but it's somewhat outdated.

Article titles are (mostly) in Arabic, Persian, or Turkish.

The Index volume contains:
- A list of entries with English titles
- An index of subjects other than individual people
- A glossary of Arabic, Persian, and Turkish words
- An index of individual people as subjects
Encyclopaedia of Islam, Third Edition
Call Number: REFB DS37 .E523
Publication Date: 2007-present (new volumes still being published)
The third edition is not yet complete, and has shorter articles, but the articles are up to date. Its coverage of 20th-century events is better than the second edition's coverage.

Article titles are (mostly) in English.

Use the index in the most recent volume.
Encyclopedia of Modern Asia
Call Number: REFB DS4 .E53 2002
Publication Date: 2002
Encyclopedia of the Modern Middle East and North Africa
Call Number: REFB DS43 .E53 2004
Publication Date: 2004