Middle Eastern literature
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Broader term:Narrower terms:- Middle Eastern literature -- History and criticism
- Arabic literature
- Iranian literature
- Syriac literature
- Middle East -- Literatures
- Near Eastern literature
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Interpreting the Self: Autobiography in the Arabic Literary Tradition (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2001), ed. by Dwight Fletcher Reynolds (HTML at UC Press)
- The Oral Tradition of Classical Arabic Poetry: Its Character and Implications (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c1978), by Michael Zwettler (PDF at Ohio State)
- The Merchant of Art: An Egyptian Hilali Oral Epic Poet in Performance (Berkeley et al.: University of California Press, c1987), by Susan Slyomovics (multiple formats at ACLS Humanities E-Book)
- Heroic Poets, Poetic Heroes: The Ethnography of Performance in an Arabic Oral Epic Tradition (Ithaca, NY and London: Cornell University Press, c1995), by Dwight Fletcher Reynolds (multiple formats with commentary at Cornell Open)
- The Oral Tradition of Classical Arabic Poetry: Its Character and Implications (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c1978), by Michael Zwettler (PDF at Ohio State)
- Rhetorics of Belonging: Nation, Narration, and Israel/Palestine (Liverpool: Liverpool University Press, c2013), by Anna Bernard
- The Merchant of Art: An Egyptian Hilali Oral Epic Poet in Performance (Berkeley et al.: University of California Press, c1987), by Susan Slyomovics (multiple formats at ACLS Humanities E-Book)
- Discourses on Iranian Literature (Bombay: Parsi Pub. Co., 1909), by Dhanjishah Meherjibhai Madan (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
- The K. R. Cama Memorial Volume: Essays on Iranian Subjects Written by Various Scholars in Honour of Mr. Kharshedji Rustamji Cama, on the Occasion of His Seventieth Birthday (in English and various Iranian languages; Mumbai: Fort Printing Press, 1900), ed. by Jivanji Jamshedji Modi
- The Literature of Arabia, With Critical and Biographical Sketches, ed. by Epiphanius Wilson (Gutenberg text)
- The Gateway to Modern Arabic Poetry (English language version, 2007), ed. by Abdul-Settar Al-Assady, trans. by Munir Mezyed (multiple formats at archive.org)
- Arabic Astronomical and Astrological Sciences in Latin Translation: A Critical Bibliography (Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1956), by Francis J. Carmody (page images at HathiTrust)
- Apocrypha Arabica (Studia Sinaitica No. 8; London: C.J. Clay and Sons, 1901), ed. by Margaret Dunlop Gibson (multiple formats at archive.org)
- Shuwa Arabic Stories, With an Introduction and Vocabulary (Oxford: Printed at the University Press, 1921), by C. G. Howard (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
- Speak, Bird, Speak Again: Palestinian Arab Folktales (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1989), ed. by Ibrahim Muhawi and Sharif Kanaana (HTML at UC Press)
- Moorish Literature, Comprising Romantic Ballads, Tales of the Berbers, Stories of the Kabyles, Folk-Lore, and National Traditions (1901), trans. by René Basset, Epiphanius Wilson, J. G. Lockhart, Chauncey C. Starkweather, Gustave Mercier, Jacques Rivière, and Constantine Louis Sonneck (Gutenberg text)
- Moorish Literature, Comprising Romantic Ballads, Tales of the Berbers, Stories of the Kabyles, Folk-Lore, and National Traditions (revised edition; New York: The Colonial Press, c1901), trans. by René Basset, Epiphanius Wilson, J. G. Lockhart, Chauncey C. Starkweather, Gustave Mercier, Jacques Rivière, and Constantine Louis Sonneck
- Interpreting the Self: Autobiography in the Arabic Literary Tradition (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2001), ed. by Dwight Fletcher Reynolds (HTML at UC Press)
- Oriental Tales (spine title of set of 15 volumes, each with its own title page; London: Athenaeum, 18984-1897), ed. by John Payne, contrib. by Charles de Secondat Montesquieu, Thomas-Simon Gueullette, and Leonard C. Smithers (page images at HathiTrust)
- Arabian Poetry for English Readers (1881), ed. by W. A. Clouston (HTML with commentary at sacred-texts.com)
- The Luzumiyat of Abu'l-Ala: Selected From His Luzum ma la Yalzam and Suct uz-Zand, and First Rendered Into English (second edition; New York: J. T. White and Co., 1920), by Abū al-ʻAlāʼ al-Maʻarrī, ed. by Ameen Fares Rihani (Gutenberg text)
- Specimens of Arabian Poetry, From the Earliest Time to the Extinction of the Khaliphat, with Some Account of the Authors (in Arabic, with English translations and notes; Cambridge, UK: Printed by J. Burges, 1796), ed. by Joseph Dacre Carlyle (page images at HathiTrust)
- Specimens of Arabian Poetry, From the Earliest Time to the Extinction of the Khaliphat, with Some Account of the Authors (in Arabic, with English translations and notes; Cambridge, UK: Printed by J. Burges, 1796), ed. by Joseph Dacre Carlyle (page images at HathiTrust)
- The Gateway to Modern Arabic Poetry (English language version, 2007), ed. by Abdul-Settar Al-Assady, trans. by Munir Mezyed (multiple formats at archive.org)
- The Tarjumán Al-Ashwáq: A Collection of Mystical Odes (London: Royal Asiatic Society, 1911), by Ibn al-'Arabi, ed. by Reynold Alleyne Nicholson (multiple formats at archive.org)
- The Tarjumán Al-Ashwáq: A Collection of Mystical Odes (English portions only; c1911), by Ibn al-'Arabi, ed. by Reynold Alleyne Nicholson (HTML with commentary at sacred-texts.com)
- The First Book of the Hadiqatu' l-Haqiqat; or, The Enclosed Garden of the Truth, of the Hakim Abu' l-Majd Majdud Sana'i of Ghazna, by Abu al-Majd Majdud ibn Adam Sana'i al-Ghaznavi, trans. by John Stephenson (HTML at sacred-texts.com)
- Sadi's Scroll of Wisdom (from the Wisdom of the East series; New York: E. P. Dutton and Co., c1906), by Sa'di, contrib. by Arthur N. Wollaston (HTML at sacred-texts.com)
- The Secret Rose Garden of Sa'd Ud Din Mahmud Shabistari: Rendered From the Persian With an Introduction, by Mahmud Shabistari, ed. by Florence Lederer (HTML at sacred-texts.com)
- Studies in Islamic Mysticism (Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 1921), by Reynold Alleyne Nicholson (HTML with commentary at sacred-texts.com)
- Bird Parliament, by Farid al-Din Attar, trans. by Edward FitzGerald (HTML with commentary at sacred-texts.com)
- The Divan, Written in the Fourteenth Century (2 volumes; Kolkata: Government of India Printing Office, 1891), by Hafiz, ed. by H. Wilberforce Clarke
- The Mesnevi, and the Acts of the Adepts (1881 book of translated selections from these works), by Maulana Jalal al-Din Rumi and Shams al-Din Ahmad Aflaki, trans. by James W. Redhouse (HTML with commentary at sacred-texts.com)
- Poems from the Divan of Hafiz (London: Heinemann, 1897), by Hafiz, trans. by Gertrude Lowthian Bell (HTML at sacred-texts.com)
- Nomocanon Gregorii Barhebraei (in Syriac, with some Latin and French editorial matter; Paris and Leipzig: O. Harrassowitz, 1898), by Bar Hebraeus, ed. by Paul Bedjan
- Spicilegium Syriacum: Containing Remains of Bardesn, Meliton, Abrose and Mara Bar Serapion (non-English portions omitted), ed. by William Cureton (HTML with commentary at tertullian.org)
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Filed under: Middle East -- Antiquities- The Passion of Max von Oppenheim: Archaeology and Intrigue in the Middle East from Wilhelm II to Hitler (Cambridge, UK: Open Book Publishers, ca. 2013), by Lionel Gossman
- The Archaeology of Difference: Gender, Ethnicity, Class and the "Other" in Antiquity (published as v. 60/61 of Annual of the American Schools of Oriental Research; c2007), ed. by Douglas R. Edwards and C. Thomas McCollough (page images at HathiTrust)
- Giving Goliath His Due: New Archaeological Light on the Philistines (c1992), by Neal Bierling (HTML at Wayback Machine)
- Guide to the Collections: Ancient Near Eastern Art (New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, c1966), by Vaughn Emerson Crawford, Prudence Oliver Harper, Oscar White Muscarella, and Beatrice Elizabeth Bodenstein (page images and PDF with commentary at metmuseum.org and Google)
- The Near East in the Southwest: Essays in honor of William G. Dever (published as v. 58 of Annual of the American Schools of Oriental Research; 2003), ed. by Beth Alpert Nakhai (page images at HathiTrust)
- The Influence of the Rise of the Ottoman Turks Upon the Routes of Oriental Trade (reprinted from the Annual Report of the American Historical Association for 1916), by Albert Howe Lybyer (page images at HathiTrust)
- A Colored Man Round the World (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, c1999), by David F. Dorr, ed. by Malini Johar Schueller (page images at HathiTrust)
- Journal Up the Straits, October 11, 1856-May 5, 1857 (New York: The Colophon, 1935), by Herman Melville, ed. by Raymond M. Weaver (page images at HathiTrust)
- Mainly East (in Prose, Perhaps Prosey) (London: Hutchinson and Co., ca. 1922), by Mrs. Alec-Tweedie
- Amurath to Amurath (London: W. Heinemann, 1911), by Gertrude Lowthian Bell (multiple formats at archive.org)
- Another Budget: or, Things Which I Saw in the East (second edition; Boston: Ticknor and Fields, 1855), by Jane Anthony Eames (page images at Google)
- Boy Travelers in Arabia: or, From Boston to Bagdad (New York: Phillips and Hunt; Cincinnati: Cranston and Stowe, 1885), by Daniel Wise
- Buck Whaley's Memoirs, Including His Journey to Jerusalem, Written by Himself in 1797 and Now First Published From the Recently Discovered Manuscript (London: Alexander Moring Ltd., 1906), by Thomas Whaley, ed. by Edward Sullivan (multiple formats at archive.org)
- Dawnings of Light in the East: With Biblical, Historical, and Statistical Notices of Persons and Places Visited During a Mission to the Jews, in Persia, Coordistan, and Mesopotamia (London: C. H. Purday. 1854), by Henry Aaron Stern
- Days and Nights in the East: From the Original Notes of a Recent Traveler Through Egypt, Arabia-Petra, Syria, Turkey and Greece (London: T. C. Newby, 1845), ed. by Matilda Plumley (HTML with map at Celebration of Women Writers)
- Diary of A Tour in Greece, Turkey, Egypt, and The Holy Land (2 volumes; London: Henry Colburn, 1841), by Mary Georgiana Emma Seymour Dawson Damer
- Eastern Life, Present and Past (Philadelphia: Lea and Blanchard, 1848), by Harriet Martineau
- Eastern Pilgrims: The Travels of Three Ladies (London: Hurst and Blackett, 1870), by Agnes Smith Lewis
- Egyptian Sepulchres and Syrian Shrines, Including a Visit to Palmyra (new edition; London: Macmillan and co., 1874), by Emily Anne Beaufort Smythe Strangford
- Eine Moderne Kreuzfahrt (in German; Weinheim: Fr. Ackermann, ca. 1898), by Adam Karrillon (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
- Eothen, by Alexander William Kinglake (Gutenberg text)
- Flying Leaves From East and West (London: Field and Tuer; et al., 1885), by Emily Pfeiffer
- The Lands of the Saracen: or, Pictures of Palestine, Asia Minor, Sicily, and Spain (20th edition; New York: G. P. Putnam, 1863), by Bayard Taylor
- Letters from the East by Henry James Ross, 1837-1857 (London: J. M. Dent and Co., 1902), by Henry James Ross, ed. by Janet Ross (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
- Letters of a German Countess: Written During Her Travels in Turkey, Egypt, the Holy Land, Syria, Nubia, &c. in 1843-4 (3 volumes in 1; London: H. Colburn, 1845), by Ida Hahn-Hahn (page images at JISC)
- Notes From a Private Journal of a Visit to Egypt and Palestine, By Way of Italy and the Mediterranean (second edition; London: Printed by Wertheimer, Lea, and Co., 1885), by Judith Cohen Montefiore (multiple formats at archive.org)
- Notes of a Journey from Cornhill to Grand Cairo, by William Makepeace Thackeray (Gutenberg text)
- Oriental Harems and Scenery (New York: Carleton, 1862), by Cristina Belgioioso
- Orientalische Briefe (3 volumes in German; Berlin: A. Duncker, 1844), by Ida Hahn-Hahn (page images at HathiTrust)
- Sunshine and Storm in the East: or, Cruises to Cyprus and Constantinople (London: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1880), by Annie Brassey, illust. by A. Y. Bingham
- Tent and Harem: Notes of an Oriental Trip (New York: D. Appleton and Co., 1859), by Caroline Paine (page images at Google)
- Travels of Lady Hester Stanhope; Forming the Completion of Her Memoirs, Narrated by Her Physician (3 volumes; London: H. Colburn, 1846), by Hester Stanhope, ed. by Charles Lewis Meryon
- Visit to the Holy Land, Egypt, and Italy (second edition; London: Ingram Cooke and Co., 1853), by Ida Pfeiffer, trans. by H. W. Dulcken (multiple formats at archive.org)
- Voyage de Bagdad à Alep (1808) (in French; Paris: J. André, 1899), by Jean Baptiste Louis Jacques Rousseau, ed. by Louis Poinssot
- Yusef, or, The Journey of the Frangi: A Crusade in the East (New York: Harper and Bros., 1853), by J. Ross Browne
- When Turkey was Turkey: In and Around Constantinople (London, G. Routledge and Sons; New York: E. P. Dutton and co., 1921), by Mary A. Poynter, contrib. by Edwin Pears (page images at HathiTrust)
- Chow-Chow: Being Selections from a Journal Kept in India, Egypt, and Syria (second edition, 2 volumes; London: Hurst and Blackett, 1857), by Amelia Fitz Clarence Cary Falkland (page images at HathiTrust)
- A Colored Man Round the World: By a Quadroon (printed for the author, 1858), by David F. Dorr
- A Girl's Journey Through Europe, Egypt, and the Holy Land (Nashville: Printed for the author, 1889), by Lenamay Green (multiple formats at archive.org)
- Holiday Letters from Athens, Cairo, and Weimar (London: Strahan and Co., 1873), by Matilda Betham-Edwards
- The Innocents Abroad (Hartford: American Publishing Co., et al., 1869), by Mark Twain
- Journal of a Visit to Egypt, Constantinople, the Crimea, Greece, &c., in the Suite of the Prince and Princess of Wales (London: Smith, Elder and Co., 1869), by Catharina Therése Lovisa Fredrika Elisabeth von Stedingk Grey Fouché (multiple formats at Google)
- Lands of the Bible: A Geographical and Topographical Description of Palestine, with Letters of Travel in Egypt, Syria, Asia Minor, and Greece (Philadelpha: J. B. Lippincott Co., 1881), by J. W. McGarvey (illustrated HTML at biblestudyguide.org)
- Lands of the Bible: A Geographical and Topographical Description of Palestine, with Letters of Travel in Egypt, Syria, Asia Minor, and Greece (Cincinnati: The Standard Publishing Company, ca. 1895), by J. W. McGarvey (illustrated HTML at dabar.org)
- An Overland Trek From India, by Side-Saddle, Camel, and Rail: The Record of a Journey from Baluchistan to Europe (London et al.: Longmans, Green and Co., 1909), by Edith Fraser Benn (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
- A Pilgrimage to The Holy Land: Comprising Recollections, Sketches, and Reflections, Made During a Tour in the East (2 volumes; New York: D. Appleton and Co.; Philadelphia: G. S. Appleton, 1848), by Alphonse de Lamartine
- Relaciones de Pedro Teixeira d'el Origen, Descendencia, y Succession de los Reyes de Persia, y de Harmuz, y de un Viage Hecho por el Mismo Autor Dende la India Oriental Hasta Italia por Tierra (in Spanish; Antwerp: H. Verdussen, 1610), by Pedro Teixeira, contrib. by Muḥammad ibn Khāvandshāh Mīr Khvānd and Turan Shah ibn Qutb al-Din (page images at HathiTrust)
- Some Further Recollections of a Happy Life, Selected From the Journals of Marianne North, Chiefly Between the Years 1859 and 1869 (London and New York: Macmillan, 1893), by Marianne North, ed. by Janet Catherine North Symonds (multiple formats at archive.org)
- Then I Was Guided, by Muhammad Tijani Samawi (HTML at al-islam.org)
- The Travels of Pedro Teixeira; With His "Kings of Harmuz" and Extracts From His "Kings of Persia" (Hakluyt Society works, second series, #9; 1902), by Pedro Teixeira, ed. by William F. Sinclair and Donald Ferguson, contrib. by John Stevens
- Turquie d'Europe et d'Asie (de Salonique à Jérusalem) (in French; Paris: Laurens, ca. 1899), by Marius Bernard, illust. by Henri Avelot
- Narrative of a Journey Overland From England, by the Continent of Europe, Egypt, and the Red Sea, to India: Including a Residence There, and Voyage Home, in the Years 1825, 26, 27, and 28 (2 volumes; London: H. Colburn and R. Bentley, 1830), by Anne Elwood
- Memoirs of the Lady Hester Stanhope, As Related by Herself in Conversations With Her Physician (3 volumes; London: H. Colburn, 1845), by Hester Stanhope, ed. by Charles Lewis Meryon (page images at HathiTrust)
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