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Middle East
Images from the collection
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Grand Vezir. Dagdeviren Collection
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Kapoudan Pacha (grand admiral). Dagdeviren Collection
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Eyewitness sketch of naval shipping off Mudros Island, Gallipoli campaign, 1915, by M.J.W. Pike. M.J.W. Pike Collection
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Egyptian poster. Artist: Jamal Kamil. Hoover Institution Archives Poster Collection
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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
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Carrying soup to the guard corps. From a series of postcards illustrating Ottoman costume, 1908. Dagdeviren Collection
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The Mehter, or Ottoman military band. From a series of postcards illustrating Ottoman costume, 1908. Dagdeviren Collection
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"There is no God but Allah." Poster of the Islamic Republican Party, Iran, 1979-1988? Hoover Institution Archives Poster Collection
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Allied encampments at Salonika. Gallipoli campaign, October 1915. Sketch by M.J.W. Pike. M.J.W. Pike Collection
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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
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The Middle East Collection has extensive holdings of books, serials, newspapers, pamphlets, government documents, society publications, and archival collections from and about the Middle East. It collects materials from and about all the Arab countries of Western Asia and North Africa, Turkey, Israel, Iran, and Afghanistan. These materials concentrate 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.
The Middle East 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.
In approximate terms, the four collections—Arabic, Turkish, Persian, and Western Language—consist of the following: 24,000 Arabic monographs and 11,000 Arabic serials and newspapers; 6,000 Turkish monographs and 22,000 Turkish serials and newspapers; 1,500 Persian monographs and 500 Persian serials and newspapers; and 20,000 Western-language monographs and 30,000 Western-language serials and newspapers. For additional information see article of December 12, 2001, in the Stanford Report.
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