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Enquiries relating materials in Arabic, Hebrew, Persian, Turkish and related languages should be directed to the Near and Middle Eastern Department either in person during our office opening hours, by telephone (66368) or e-mail at near_eastern@lib.cam.ac.uk
Readers are encouraged to forward recommendations for new titles directly to the Near and Middle Eastern Department or by submitting details via the Library's on-line recommendation form.
Recommendations are given special priority during the purchase and cataloguing process and will be made available as soon as possible.
Almost all printed publications in the Near and Middle Eastern languages can be searched through the Library’s on-line catalogue ‘NEWTON’, the exception being some publications in Ottoman Turkish, for which it is still necessary to consult the old manual catalogue
Searching ‘NEWTON’ for Near and Middle Eastern Language materials
In order to search ‘NEWTON’ effectively it is vital to be familiar with the standard for Arabic, Persian, Hebrew, Turkish or other languages, which are common to most English language based on-line catalogues. New acquisitions in these languages are now catalogued containing both transliterated and the original script data and may be searched in either format.
For searches in script it is necessary to use the appropriate language settings and keyboard mapping in your computer’s operating system. Please note that, as information in original script is not as yet present in all catalogue records, and publications retrieved when searching in Arabic or Hebrew script will only reflect publications received by the library in the last five years.
- Printed material in Arabic and Hebrew script (including Persian, Kurdish, Ottoman Turkish etc.) must be searched using the Library of Congress transliteration system, which is standard to all English-language based libraries.
Please note: when searching for a name or title
- omit the initial “al-“ in names and titles
- omit all diacritics
- keep the hyphen (-) in the middle of a word or sentence:
For example:
Author / al-Fārābī ----------- search for: Farabi
Author / Ibn `al-`Arabī ------------- search for: Ibn al-Arabi
Title / al-Makhṭūtāt al-`Arabīyah ----------search for: Makhtutat al-Arabiyah
Search Example:
Author: Ibn al-Arabi / Title : Makhtut nadir min
The resulting catalogue record looks like this:-
Makhṭūṭ nādir min Rasāil Ibn al-Arabī / taḥqīq...
Main Author: |
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Title: |
Makhṭūṭ nādir min Rasāil Ibn al-Arabī / taḥqīq wa-taqdīm Saīd Abd al-Fattāḥ. |
Other Entries: |
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Published: |
[Cairo] : al-Maktabah al-Azharīyah lil-Turāth, [2004]. |
Description: |
165 p.; 24 cm. |
ISBN: |
9772243067 |
Subject(s): |
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Format: |
Book |
Original Language: |
ابن العربى 1165-1240. |
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مخطوط نادر من رساءل ابن عربى / تحقيق وتقديم سعيد عبد عبد الفتاح. |
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[القاهرة] المكتبة الازهرية للتراث [2004]. |