Near East Collection

Oacis Project

OACIS for the Middle East (Online Access to Consolidated Information on Serials) is a union list of serials from or about the Middle East. The mission of OACIS is to improve access to Middle Eastern serials in libraries in the United States, Europe, and the Middle East. OACIS was hosted at Yale University until May 2014, when the American University of Beirut agreed to take over the responsibility of maintaining and overseeing OACIS. They are working on a new system to support this resource.

Anti-malaria campaign poster (Iraq)

"Mosquitoes carry malaria-- ask a health official about how to combat and protect against it!" From the Historical Medical Poster collection of the Cushing/Whitney Medical Library.

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Near East Collection

View of the Sphinx and Great Pyramid (1809-1828)

"Vue du Sphinx et de la grande pyramide, prise du sud-est." From: Description de l’Egypte, ou, Recueil de observations et des recherches qui ont ete faites en Egypte pendant l’expedition de l’armee francaise, publie par les ordres de Sa Majeste l’empereur Napoleon le Grand Description de l’Egypte (1809-1828)

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Near East Collection

Risalat al-tayr, 1282 AD

Ibn Sina's Risalat al-tayr, copied in Baghdad in 1282 (Landberg MSS 510). From the collections of the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library.

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Near East Collection

Dalail al-khayrat, 1793

Dalail al-khayrat wa-shawariq al-anwar fi dhikr al-salah ala al-Nabi al-Mukhtar (Guide to blessings and shining lights regarding prayers on the Chosen Prophet), Arabic MSS suppl. 616 (1793). From the collections of the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library.

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Near East Collection

Yale papyrus

Letter in Arabic to a sister, concerning business, including purchase or sale of papyrus (P.CtYBR inv. 2662). From the collections of the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library.

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Near East Collection

Bowl depicting episode from the Shahnameh

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Near East Collection

Safafid-era textile fragment

Textile fragment, 17th cent., signed by Khwajah Ghiyath al-Din Ali. From the collections of the Yale University Art Gallery.

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Near East Collection

Moving Memnon's head

"Mode in which the young Memnon's head (now in the British Museum) was removed," from Plates illustrative of the researches and operations of G. Belzoni in Egypt and Nubia, 1822. From the collections of the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library.

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Near East Collection

East part of Barbary, 1716

"The east part of Barbary containing Tunis, Tripoli, Barca, Egypt, Nubia, part of Biledulgerid and Zaara or desart," in Forty-two new maps of Asia, Africa, and America ... : all engrav’d, according to the latest observations by Herman Moll, 1716. From the collections of the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library.

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Near East Collection

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Anti-malaria campaign poster (Iraq)

View of the Sphinx and Great Pyramid (1809-1828)

Risalat al-tayr, 1282 AD

Dalail al-khayrat, 1793

Yale papyrus

Bowl depicting episode from the Shahnameh

Safafid-era textile fragment

Moving Memnon's head

East part of Barbary, 1716

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