Religious Studies Web Guide

Portals:

• Al-Furqan Digital Library Portal - gateway to identifying books and manscripts and collections
• Manuscripts/Digital Resources and Projects in Islamic Studies
• Union Catalogue of Manuscripts from Islamicate World -  identifies which libraries  in the United Kingdom hold specific texts

Specific Libraries/Archives:

• Bodman Collection of Middle Eastern and Islamic World Films (University of North Carolina Chapel Hill) - list of over 500 films
• Center for Islamic Studies (Turkey) Library Catalogue
• Georgetown University Library's Documentary Films on the Middle East and the Islamic World - use the library catalogue to search for films - note limit "material type" to Film and video.
• Islamic Foundation Library
• McGill Islamic Studies Library - see also the Islamic manuscripts held at McGill
• Oman Library (Middle East Institute)
• Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies Library - can search their holdings via The University of Oxford Library- limit what you are searching to Oxford Center for Islamic Studies
• Pontificio Istituto di Studi Arabi e d'Islamistica : Catalogo della biblioteca  - lists books and journal articles
• Princeton Digital Library of Islamic Manuscripts
• Research Archives of the Oriental Institute, University of Chicago - includes references to journal articles.
• University of Chicago Library - see MEDOC Catalog of Microforms Projects in Ottoman, Persian and Arabic
• University of Chicago Library - Islamic Lithographs Collection  - "consists of approximately 330 nineteenth- to twentieth-century Arabic lithograph printed books, mostly published in Iran and India, through Egypt, Turkey, and the Levant are also represented. These lithographs are rarely available in research libraries in Europe and the United States"
• University of Edinburgh - over 23,000 monographs on Islam and Middle East and over 650 manuscripts in oriental languages