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Through the MENAdoc portal, our specialist information service offers free worldwide access to a wide range of digital sources and publications relating to the MENA region and Islam. Here you will find classics from the field of Oriental studies as well as current research articles, which you can read in open access or save as PDF files. All titles are equipped with a permalink and can therefore be referenced permanently and are listed in supra-regional catalogues.

MENADoc

Co-operations

The FID cooperates with various publishers to digitize literature related to the MENA region and on Islam to make it available in open access.

Orient Institute Beirut (OIB)

Series of the OIB on MENAdoc:

Bibliotheca Islamica (without embargo)
Beirut texts and studies (one year embargo)

Orient Institute Istanbul (OII)

Series of the OII on MENAdoc:

Istanbul texts and studies (3 years embargo)
Memoria (without embargo)

German Oriental Society

Journals of the German Oriental Society (ZDMG) (3 years embargo)

Isis Press Istanbul

We started with the digitalisation of the Isis series such as Analecta Isisiana, VariaTurcica, Les cahiers du Bosphore and others from the years 1985-2005.

Merian Centre for Advanced Studies in the Maghreb

The MECAM Papers will be made available as digital open access first publications in three languages each (English, French & Arabic) in our thematic repository.

Discussion Papers - Economy, Society and Geography in the Middle East

The books published by Steffen Wippel Diskussionspapiere – Wirtschaft, Gesellschaft und Geographie im Vorderen Orient are made available as digital open access first publications in our thematic repository.

SYRASP - The Prison Narratives of Assad's Syria: Voices, Texts, Publics

SYRASP combines the disciplines of Literature Science and cultural anthropology and explores contemporary narratives, images, social media practices and cultural practices related to detention and enforced disappearance in Syria under the Assad regime (1970 to the present).

SYRASP is funded by the European Research Council (ERC) under the European Union's Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme (grant agreement no. 851393) and will be funded on Forum Transregional Studies (Forum) as part of the research programme EUROPE IN THE MIDDLE EAST - THE MIDDLE EAST IN EUROPE (EUME) was carried out.

Overview of our services

Interlibrary loan

We are a service of the University and State Library of Saxony-Anhalt (ULB) and offer specialised literature that many libraries do not have in their holdings.

Publishing on MENAdoc

We are a service of the University and State Library of Saxony-Anhalt (ULB) and offer specialised literature that many libraries do not have in their holdings.

Digitisation of out-of-print works

We digitise older German specialist literature and provide it on our thematic repository MENAdoc.

Research data

The Specialised Information Service for Middle East, North Africa and Islamic Studies regards supporting the academic community in managing research data as one of its main tasks.