Digital Archive of the Middle East

Items

• A German Arabic Dictionary is Translated into English (1961)
  Excerpt from the introduction to 'A Dictionary of Modern Written Arabic', by German Orientalist Hans Wehr (1909-81), annotated by Cyrus Schayegh.
• Conquering the Weather: Khamsin, Föhn and Zionist Nation-building (1938)
  Excerpt from Benno Rothenberg's book 'Meteorologiya' (1938) discussing the hot desert wind found in Palestine and known in Arabic as 'khamsin', and the use of Hebrew replacement words such as 'sharav' and 'kadim' by Zionist settlers. Translated and annotated by Tuvaal Klein.
• Kitab Mujarrabāt
  Kitab Mujarrabāt, aka Fath-al-malik al-majid, is a manuscript treatise of 36 chapters on healing magic, written by 18th century Egyptian legal scholar of the Shafi'i school, Al-Shaykh Aḥmad ibn ʻUmar Dayrabī (1651-1738), who taught at al-Alzhar. The manuscript is incomplete, and is lacking the final pages.
• Photograph with annotation: "the Security Headquarters prison in Sulemanyah, Iraqi Kurdistan, 1991".
  Photograph by Edith Maubec, annotated: "the Security Headquarters prison in Sulemanyah, Iraqi Kurdistan, 1991". A man points to inscriptions on the wall.
• Print showing field sketch by Lieutenant M. Houghton of coast from Ul Umrah from the anchorage, Circa 1825.
  Print showing field sketch by Lieutenant M. Houghton of coast from Ul Umrah [Jazirah al Hamra, UAE] from the anchorage, Circa 1825. Image from collection of 'Coast Views taken while employed on the Arabian Side of the Gulf of Persia'. By Lieutenant Michael Houghton, Draughtsman, H.C. Marine. A collection of 20 watercolour, pencil and ink sketches carried out by the Bombay Marine's officers between 1820 and 1829. Archive Editions, Printed 1990.
• The Papers of Adil Al-Azmah. Box 6 (iv)
  Index to Adil Al-Azmah papers, indicating numbers from 1-1054
• Voice of Faith
  Arabic Islamic magazine containing religious, literary, educational, and cultural articles. The issue includes essays on Islamic thought, ethics, society, literature, poetry, and contemporary issues, together with news, editorials, illustrations, and contributions from multiple writers. It reflects the themes and intellectual concerns of modern Arabic Islamic periodical literature.