Islamic Civilization and Societies

Journal Articles

This guide focuses on the essential resources for research in Middle Eastern Studies and Islamic Civilization and Societies

Middle Eastern and Central Asian Studies This link opens in a new window
MECAS is a bibliographic index of research, policy and scholarly discourse on the countries and peoples of the Middle East, Central Asia and North Africa. Coverage from 1900 to present in: political affairs & law, international relations, economic affairs, business & industry, cultural heritage, arts & humanities, society & social welfare, ethnic diversity & anthropology, significant religious events & movements and archaeology.
Index Islamicus This link opens in a new window
Index Islamicus is a multidisciplinary index of the literature of Islam and the Muslim world. It includes records of journal articles, books, chapters of books, conference proceedings, monographs, multi-authored works and book reviews covering the accounting, archaeology, arts, bibliography & scholarship, economics, education, geography, history, law, literature, natural & applied sciences, philosophy, politics, religion, social sciences, theology, travel and zoology of the Islamic world and the Islamic diaspora in the West.

Middle East Research Journals Project (MERJ)
The MERJ project aimed to provide preservation microfilming, article-level indexing, and bibliographic access to over 2,000 selected Middle Eastern journal titles in various languages (including four non-Roman script languages: Arabic, Greek, Hebrew, and Ottoman Turkish)
The Middle East Materials Project (MEMP)
Historical newspaper in Arabic, Turkish, and English.

OECD iLibrary This link opens in a new window
Includes key OECD publications such as: Financial Market Trends, Higher Education Management and Policy, Nuclear Law Bulletin, OECD Economic Outlook, OECD Economic Studies, OECD Economic Surveys, OECD Journal of Competition Law & Policy, and OECD Papers. Also includes books by theme, containing monographs and annual reports, on 20 topics.
Policy File Index This link opens in a new window
Offering access to U.S. foreign and domestic policy papers and gray literature, PolicyFile is updated weekly with abstracts and links to the latest reports, papers, and documents from think tanks, research institutes, and agencies.
World Bank - Documents and Reports This link opens in a new window
Documents and Reports is a collection of more than 27,000 World Bank operational documents and working papers.