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Arabic Language, Linguistics & Literature

A guide to Arabic language and literature resources.

Article Databases

Linguistics and Language Behavior Abstracts (LLBA)
1973- .
Citations with non-evaluative abstracts to international scholarly journal articles, books, and dissertations on the nature, use, and teaching of language as well as linguistics, speech, and communication. Provides enhanced dissertation listings from Dissertation Abstracts International and bibliographic citations for book reviews. Particularly strong in applied and descriptive linguistics and in psycholinguistics.
MLA International Bibliography
Provides access to worldwide scholarly research in literature (including drama), language, linguistics, folklore, film, radio, television, and theater, representing all national literatures. Does not include book reviews.

Database of Arabic Literature in Western Research
The Database of Arabic Literature in Western Research (DAL) is an easy-to-use, searchable, internet-based bibliographic database of Arabic literature in western research....provides easy access to detailed, annotated and content-enriched bibliographic records of books, articles, chapters of books and reviews written in English since the movement of translation and commentary of Arabic literary texts first began in the West. Based at Oxford University, England.

Index Islamicus
International classified bibliography of publications in European languages on all aspects of Islam and the Muslim world. Provides the reader with an effective overview of what has been published on a given subject in the field of Islamic Studies in its broadest sense. From ProQuest.
Academic Search Premier
1965- (varies).

Provides full text for publications covering academic areas of study including social sciences, humanities, education, computer sciences, engineering, language and linguistics, arts & literature, medical sciences, and ethnic studies.
ProQuest Central
1980s- (varies). Provides indexing, abstracting, and many full-text entries for over 2,800 scholarly and general-interest periodicals. Covers a very broad range of topics and sources.
JSTOR
Full text (in PDF format) of selected, important scholarly journals in a number of fields. Note: journals in JSTOR usually do not include the most recent three to five years.

Important Journals

Jadaliyya
Jadaliyya is an independent ezine produced by the Arab Studies Institute (www.ArabStudiesInstitute.org)
Journal of Arabic Literature
The leading journal specializing in the study of Arabic literature, ranging from the pre-Islamic period to the present.
al-ʹArabiyya: Journal of the American Association of Teachers of Arabic = al-ʹArabīyah: majallat Rābiṭat Asātidhat al-Lughah al-ʹArabīyah
Includes scholarly articles and reviews that advance the study, research, and teaching of Arabic language, linguistics, literature, and pedagogy.
Zeitschrift für arabische Linguistik = Journal of Arabic linguistics = Journal de linguistique arabe
An international peer-reviewed scholarly journal, with a special focus on the field of Arabic linguistics.

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