Middle East

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Grand Vezir. Dagdeviren Collection

Kapoudan Pacha (grand admiral). Dagdeviren Collection

Eyewitness sketch of naval shipping off Mudros Island, Gallipoli campaign, 1915, by M.J.W. Pike. M.J.W. Pike Collection

Egyptian poster. Artist: Jamal Kamil. Hoover Institution Archives Poster Collection

Drawing of great mosque of Mecca with Kaaba in center. Intended as certificate of completion of a Muslim pilgrimage; text in Arabic includes blank spaces for name of pilgrim, date of pilgrimage, and names of four witnesses. Hoover Institution Archives Poster Collection

Carrying soup to the guard corps. From a series of postcards illustrating Ottoman costume, 1908. Dagdeviren Collection

The Mehter, or Ottoman military band. From a series of postcards illustrating Ottoman costume, 1908. Dagdeviren Collection

"There is no God but Allah." Poster of the Islamic Republican Party, Iran, 1979-1988? Hoover Institution Archives Poster Collection

Allied encampments at Salonika. Gallipoli campaign, October 1915. Sketch by M.J.W. Pike. M.J.W. Pike Collection

Drawing of tomb mosque of Prophet Muhammad in Medina, Saudi Arabia. Text in Arabic. Serves as souvenir of pilgrimage to mosque of Muhammad in Medina, includes spaces for names of witnesses attesting to completion of pilgrimage. Hoover Institution Archives Poster Collection

The Middle East Collection currently concentrates on twentieth-century history, politics, economics, military affairs, political and social movements, communism and socialism, education as a factor in political and social change, and U.S. national security affairs. Materials from and about all the Arab countries of Western Asia and North Africa, Turkey, Israel, Iran, and Afghanistan are included.

The collection also has strong holdings, primarily in Arabic, of classical Islamic texts and of works on the history, literature, philosophy, and religion of classical or medieval Islam and of twentieth-century Arabic and Turkish literature. These portions of the collections, however, are no longer actively developed.