In October 2014, the Oman Library at the Middle East Institute (MEI) received a grant from Saudi Aramco designated to initiate a digitization of the library’s rare collection. This is the first project of its kind for MEI and the Oman Library. The digitization project utilizes a high quality resolution scanner and aims to digitize and make hundreds of materials available for online use by scholars and researchers from around the globe.

The Oman Library’s online collection is a web-based digital collection of the library’s rare books and manuscripts, consisting entirely of subjects related to Middle Eastern Studies. The topics of the rare collection range from history and culture to works of fiction from the early twentieth century. The collection includes materials in seven different languages -- English, Arabic, French, Farsi, Urdu, Ottoman Turkish, and Turkish -- and publications spanning the period from 1700 to 1921. In addition to rare books, MEI has included a number of its own published works in the digital collection. These Middle East Institute publications span from the 1960s to 2004.

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al-Rihaniyyaat

Rihani, Ameen Fares
Arabic
1910

Law, personalities, and politics of the Middle East

Piscatori, James P, Harris, George S. (George Sellers), 1931-, Khadduri, Majid, 1908-
English
1987

Deniz altında 20000 fersah seyahat

Verne, Jules
Ottoman Turkish
1307 [1889]

Gece yolcuları

Ponson du Terrail
Ottoman Turkish

Arab Personalitites in Politics

Khadduri, Majid
1981

The Iranian Islamic clergy

English
[1984]

Esrar-i cinayat

Ahmet Mithat
Ottoman Turkish
1301 [1883]

riwāyah maknūnāt Bārīs

part 1- 5
Sue, Eugène
Arabic
[1908]

A history of the Sepoy war in India, 1857-1858

Vol. 2
Kaye, John William, Sir
English
MDCCCLXX [1870]

Fifty-three years in Syria

Jessup, Henry Harris
[1910]

Travels to the city of the caliphs, along the shores of the Persian Gulf and the Mediterranean

VOL I
Wellsted, J. R
English
1840

Hādhā kitāb Ḥusn al-muḥāḍarah fī akhbār Miṣr wa-al-Qāhira

Suyūṭī
Arabic
1299 [1882]

Rusça öğrenmek

Mehmet Mehmet Hüsnü
Ottoman Turkish
1903

Travels to the city of the caliphs, along the shores of the Persian Gulf and the Mediterranean

VOL II
Wellsted, J. R
English
1840

Jordanian arms and the Middle East balance

Cordesman, Anthony H
English
1985

The New Near East

1920

Muḥammad ʻAlī Bāshā al-Kabīr

Mühlbach, L
Arabic
1907

Israel and the Palestine Arabs

Peretz, Don, 1922-
English
1958 [c1956]

Al-Azhar, a millennium of Muslim learning

Dodge, Bayard
English
1974

A history of Greece

part 1
Abbott, Evelyn, 1843-1901
English
1900-11

al-sāʼilah al-ḥasnāʼ

Robier, M
Arabic
[1909]

riwāyah maknūnāt Bārīs

part 6-10
Sue, Eugène
Arabic
[1908]

The Middle East

Howard, Harry N. (Harry Nicholas), 1902-1987
English
1970

Middle East organizations in Washington, DC

c1989

Histoire de l'empire Ottoman jusqu'à la révolution de 1909

Collas, Louis Charles
French
[1909?]

North Africa in regional and international affairs

Anthony, John Duke
[1974]

Traités mystiques d'Abou Alî al-Hosain b. Abdallah b. Sênâ ou d'Avicenne

Avicenna
French
1891-1899

Institutions of higher learning in the Middle East

Boardman, Francis
English
1977

A friendship two centuries old

Eilts, Hermann F
English
1990

Mémoires du baron de Tott, sur les Turcs et les Tartares

Tott, François
French
1785

Mémoires du baron de Tott, sur les Turcs et les Tartares

Tott, François
French
1785

Majānī al-adab fī hadāʼiq al-ʻArab

Part 5,
Cheikho, Louis
Arabic
1899-

Majānī al-adab fī hadāʼiq al-ʻArab

Part 5,
Cheikho, Louis
Arabic
1899-

Majānī al-adab fī hadāʼiq al-ʻArab

Part 4,
Cheikho, Louis
Arabic
1899-

Kitāb-i Maẓhar al-ajāʼib

ʻAṭṭār, Farīd al-Dīn
Farsi
1316 [1937]

Kitāb al-bahjah al-ʻAbbāsīyah fī tārīkh Miṣr wa-al-Ummah al-ʻArabīyah

ʻAzmī, Sayyid
Arabic
1906

Mukhtaṣar kitāb al-farq bayna al-firaq

Ibn Ṭāhir al-Baghdādī, ʿAbd al-Qāhir
Ottoman Turkish
1924

Cours gradué de lettres arabes manuscrites

Belkassem ben Sedira
Arabic
1893

The New Near East

1921

Notes on the Divan-ı Ali Discussions That Took Place in July 1330 in Meclis-i Mebusan

Gazi, Ahmet Muhtar Paşa
Ottoman Turkish
1330 [1911]

Bildiklerim

Iṣlāḥeddīn, Meḥmed
Ottoman Turkish
1918

al-Ḥamlah al-Miṣrīyah, aw, min Bārīs ilá ṣaḥrāʼ al-Tīyah

Erden, Ali Fuad
Arabic
1922

Majānī al-adab fī hadāʼiq al-ʻArab

Part 3,
Cheikho, Louis
Arabic
1899-

Dīwān ʻAntar

ʻAntara ibn Shadda̲d
Arabic
[approximately 1893]

The United States and the Middle East

English
[1975?]

A guide to Middle East resources in the national capital

English
2004

Lone sentinels in the Near East

Hubbard, Ethel Daniels
English
1920

The United States and the Middle East

Anthony, John Duke, Stifani, Elda
English
[1975?]

The Middle East

Howard, Harry N. (Harry Nicholas), 1902-1987
English
[1970-1979

Institutions of higher learning in the Middle East

Boardman, Francis
English
1961

Description of Mesopotamia and Baghdad

Suhrab, 10th century, Le Strange, G. (Guy), 1854-1933, editor
English
1895

Tahqiq wa tadqiq fi bad akhbar al-Futuhat al-Misriyah bi Suriyah mundhu Tisa wa tisin sanah

Rustum, Asad, 1897-1965
Arabic
1930

King `Abd al-`Aziz' negotiations with concessionaire oil companies in Saudi Arabia

Bin Salman, `Abd al-`Aziz
English
c2002

Une Réforme praticable en Turquie

French
1853

Mission in Palestine, 1948-1952

Azcárate, Pablo de, 1890-1971
English
1966

Gulf-Asia energy security

Calabrese, John
English
c1998

Muslim education in medieval times

Dodge, Bayard, 1888-1972
English
1962

The states of the Arabian Peninsula and the Gulf littoral

Anthony, John Duke
English
[1973]

The evolution of public responsibility in the Middle East

Hall, Harvey Porter, ed
English
[c1955]

Arabian oil ventures

Philby, H. St. J. B. (Harry St. John Bridger), 1885-1960
English
1964

The United States, Japan, and the Middle East

Calabrese, John
English
c1997

Western interests and U.S. policy options in the Middle East

Battle, Lucius D, Seignious, George M., 1921-, Hunter, Robert Edwards, 1940-, Kemp, Geoffrey
English
[1988]

A journey in Palestine

Worcester, John, 1834-1900
English
1884

Report on the administration of civil justice for the year

English
[1919- ]

Hasib Sabbagh

Deeb, Mary Jane, King, Mary E
English
c1996

Iran's elections

Calabrese, John
English
[1997]

Egyptian irrigation

Willcocks, William, Sir, 1852-, Craig, James Ireland, 1868- joint author
English
1889

A history of the Sepoy war in India, 1857-1858

Vol. 1
Kaye, John William, Sir
English
1870

Persian Gulf

English
1920

The Persian crisis of December, 1911

Browne, Edward Granville, 1862-1926
English
[1912]

Nassr-Eddin Schah und das moderne Persien

Morgan, Camillo, 1860-
German
1889

The Persian constitutional movement

Browne, Edward Granville, 1862-1926
English
[1918]

Ancient history from the monuments

Vaux, W. S. W. (William Sandys Wright), 1818-1885
English
[1876?]

Children of Persia

Malcolm, U
English
[1911]

On the cross of Europe's imperialism, Armenia crucified

Apcar, Diana Agabeg
English
1918

A survey of the Holy Land

Bannister, J. T
English
[1843?]

Arab perceptions of American foreign policy during the October War

Rugh, William A
English
1976

Jerusalem, key to peace

Wilson, Evan M., 1910-
English
1970

The day of Maysalun

al-Husari, Abu Khaldun Sati
English
1966

Mesopotamia

Parfit, J. T. (Joseph Thomas), b. 1870
English
1917

Mémoire sur les migrations des Tsiganes à travers l'Asie

Goeje, M. J. de (Michael Jan de)
French
1903

Peace and security in the Middle East after Lebanon

English
1982?]

The Gulf and the peninsula

English
[1980?]

The Middle East after partial peace

English
[1979]

The Palestinians: their place in the Middle East

English
1977

The process of development in the Middle East

English
1976?]

After the settlement, new directions, new relationships

English
1974

The Arabian Peninsula, Iran and the Gulf States

English
[1973]

World energy demands and the Middle East

English
1972

People, power and political systems

English
1972]

Violence and dialogue in the Middle East

English
1970?]

The Soviet Union and the Middle East

English
1969

The United States and the Middle East

English
1968?]

Developmental revolution

Polk, William Roe, 1929- ed
English
1963

Middle East report, 1959

Sands, William, ed
English
[1959]

Conference on Middle East Affairs

Hoskins, Halford, Speiser, E. A. (Ephraim Avigdor), 1902-1965, MacMurray, John Van Antwerp
English
1947

Middle East resources

Hall, Harvey Porter, ed
English
[1954]

Evolution in the Middle East

Fisher, Sydney Nettleton
English
[1953]

Constantinople

Hutton, William Holden
English
1900 [ 1921 printing]

The women of Turkey and their folk-lore

Garnett, Lucy Mary Jane. d. 1934
English
1893

Mémoires du baron de Tott, sur les Turcs et les Tartares

Tott, François
French
1785

Ambassador Morgenthau's story

Morgenthau, Henry, 1856-1946
English
1918

Turkey and the Eastern question

Macdonald, John, M.A
English
[1913]

Mohammed and Mohammedanism

Smith, R. Bosworth (Reginald Bosworth), 1839-1908, Deutsch, Emanuel Oscar Menahem, 1829-1873. Islam
English
1875

The speeches and table-talk of the Prophet Mohammad

Lane-Poole, Stanley, 1854-1931
English
c1915

Mohammad in the Bible

Kaldani, David Benjamin, b. 1867
English
[19--?]

Kurdische Studien

Makas, Hugo
English
1900

Saladin and the fall of the Kingdom of Jerusalem

Lane-Poole, Stanley, 1854-1931
English
c1898

A short history of the question of Constantinople and the straits

Shotwell, James Thomson
English
[1922]

Women and the new East

Woodsmall, Ruth Frances
English
1960

Report on the Russian army and its campaigns in Turkey in 1877-1878

Greene, F. V. (Francis Vinton), 1850-1921
English
1908

The future of Iraq

Calabrese, John
English
c1997

Cairo, sketches of its history, monuments, and social life

Lane-Poole, Stanley
English
1892

England in Egypt

Milner, Alfred Milner, 1st viscount, 1954-1925, Dawkins, Clinton, Sir, Gorst, Eldon, Sir, 1861-1911
English
1907

Story of Turkey and Armenia

Pierce, James Wilson
English
1896

A Palestine entity?

Peretz, Don
English
[1970]

Where the Jordan flows

Sanger, Richard Harlakenden, 1905-
English
1963

Les Etats-Unis de Syrie!

Rabbat, Idmun
French
1925

Perspectives on the Middle East 1983

Miller, William G. (William Green), Stoddard, Philip
English
c1983

The Middle East remembered

Badeau, John Stothoff, 1903-
English
1983

Bulgarian horrors and the question of the East

Gladstone, W. E. (William Ewart), 1809-1898
English
1876

L'empire Ottoman

Hecquard, Charles
French
1901

Mandate for Palestine

English
c1931

My diaries

Part 1
Blunt, Wilfrid Scawen, 1840-1922
English
1921

The Tarikh-i-jadid, or, New history of Mirza 'Ali Muhammad the Bab

Husain, Hamadani, Mirza, d. 1881 or 2, Browne, Edward Granville, 1862-1926, ed. and tr
English
1893

The Iranian revolution

Esposito, John L, Piscatori, James
English
1989

US-Iran relations

Amirahmadi, Hooshang, 1947-
English
1994

The Persian Gulf

Doran, Charles F
English
c1991

Japan and the Middle East

Lincoln, Edward J
English
c1990

The future of Iraq

Mylroie, Laurie
English
1991

Sudan

Voll, John Obert, 1936-
English
c1991

Reaching for the olive branch

Viorst, Milton
English
c1989

Daniel Bliss and the founding of the American University of Beirut

Bliss, Daniel, 1823-1916
English
c1989

Report of the Commission appointed by the Government of Palestine to inquire into the affairs of the Orthodox Patriarchate of Jerusalem

Bertram, Anton, Sir, 1869-, Luke, Harry Charles Joseph, 1884-
English
1921

Histoire nestorienne inédite

Premiére Partie I
Scher, Addai, 1867-1916, ed. & tr
French
1909

Abdallah, or, The four-leaved shamrock

Laboulaye, Édouard
English
1900

A bibliography of Morocco, from the earliest times to the end of 1891

Playfair, R. Lambert (Robert Lambert), Sir
English
1892

The West Bank, a portrait

Richardson, John P
English
c1984

Crisis in Lebanon

Qubain, Fahim Issa
English
1961

La Phénicie avant les Phéniciens

Zumoffen, G
French
1900

The Persian Gulf States

Hay, Rupert, Sir, 1893-
English
1959

In the land of mosques & minarets

Mansfield, M. F. (Milburg Francisco), b. 1871
English
1908