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Islam - Libraries and Archives
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Specific Libraries/Archives:
Arab American National Museum Library - "collects, documents and preserves art, three-dimensional artifacts, books, documents, personal papers and photographs that were created by, owned, primarily used by or that illustrate the Arab American experience"
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
Islamic Foundation Library
McGill Islamic Studies Library - see also the Islamic manuscripts held at McGill
Moshe Dayan Center for Middle Eastern and African Studies Library - index to over 250,000 books, essays and journal articles on the modern Middle East
Oman Library (Middle East Institute) - digital rare texts
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 Edinburgh - over 23,000 monographs on Islam and Middle East and over 650 manuscripts in oriental languages