Access to Mideast and Islamic Resources (AMIR).This project began as a consequence of a series of conversations in 2010 between Charles Jones and Peter Magierski at NYU about the need for a tool to assemble and distribute information on open access material relating to the Middle East.

Arabic Collections Online (ACO). Arabic Collections Online (ACO) is a publicly available digital library of public domain Arabic language content.

Archive alsharekh. أرشيف الشارخ للمجلات الأدبية والثقافية العربية: يهدف الموقع لحفظ التراث المدون في المجلات الأدبية والثقافية العربية وتقديمه للباحثين.

Digital Library of the Middle East .The Digital Library of the Middle East (DLME) offers free and open access to the rich cultural legacy of the Middle East and North Africa by bringing together collections from a wide range of cultural heritage institutions.

Hazine's Guide to Online Archives & Digitized Resources . A blog maintained by scholars of the Middle East, North Africa, and Islamicate societies--this post comprises a crucial list of mostly-open access resources for the study of the Middle East.

Hazine's Guide to Online Visual Resources .A blog maintained by scholars of the Middle East, North Africa, and Islamicate societies--this post comprises a crucial list of mostly-open access visual resources from and about the Middle East.

Inscriptions of Israel/Palestine (Brown University) The Inscriptions of Israel/Palestine project seeks to collect and make accessible over the Web all of the previously published inscriptions (and their English translations) of Israel/Palestine from the Persian period through the Islamic conquest (ca. 500 BCE - 640 CE). (From Website)

Islamic Heritage Project . A digital collection of Islamic manuscripts, published texts, and maps from across Harvard's libraries and museums.. These rare materials are freely available to Internet users worldwide.

Menalib-Middle East Virtual Library . An information portal for Middle East, North African, and Islamic Studies. It offers worldwide free access to a large number of digital sources and publications relating to the MENA region and Islam via the MENAdoc portal.

Middle East and North Africa - World Digital Library. The World Digital Library provides free access to manuscripts, rare books, maps, photographs, and other important cultural documents

The Middle East Materials Project (MEMP). The Middle East Materials Project (MEMP) preserves collections in digital and microform format of unique, rare, hard to obtain, and often expensive research material for Middle East studies. It also preserves deteriorating printed and manuscript scholarly materials. The geographic scope of MEMP coverage includes Arab countries, Israel, Turkey, Iran, and related areas not covered by other cooperative materials projects.

Pars Times . The site aims at providing comprehensive information pertaining to Iran and the Middle East. Particularly rich is its Middle East media section. Also a strong section for governmental reports of interest to political scientists and others in the social sciences.

UPENN database of Middle East online book. The works on the region consisting of Asia west of Pakistan, northeastern Africa, and occasionally Greece and Pakistan. Works treating collectively the Arabic-speaking countries of Asia and Africa, or of Asia only, are entered under Arab countries.

Al-Maktabah al-Shamilah

Downloadable library, comprising thousands of Arabic texts.

Al-Mishkat

Searchable database of classical Arabic texts.

Al-Mostafa

Database of downloadable PDFs of Arabic texts, modern and classical.

Asnad.org

A database of Persian historical documents from Iran and Central Asia up to the 20th century.

Modern Egypt Library

Alexandria library database of searchable texts.

Access to Mideast and Islamic Resources. Open Access Manuscripts Collection: Manuscripts in St. Catherine's Monastery, Mount Sinai

Early Manuscript Collection. David M. Rubenstein Rare Book & Manuscript Library in Duke University

Islamic Manuscripts at Michigan. This site is part of an ongoing project to fully catalogue the Islamic Manuscripts Collection at the University Of Michigan, Ann Arbor.

Middle Eastern manuscripts online: Arabic Manuscripts from the Hungarian Academy. This collection consists of 200 manuscripts with just over 300 works. In addition to 5 autographs, the highlights of the collection include: the earliest dated manuscript in the collection (Arab O. 013) a dated copy of a unique arrangement of a rare treatise written by al-Ṣāḅib Tāḡ al-Dīn (d. 707/1307) produced in the year of the author's death; two rare Mamluk treatises on horsemanship (Arab F.2); and an anonymous compilation (Arab O. 027) about the lives of the outstanding men who lived in Medina in the 12th/18th century.

Middle Eastern manuscripts online: Pioneer orientalists. Leiden University Library has a world famous collection of Middle Eastern Manuscripts. Its core collection is brought together by, among others, the Leiden Orientalists Joseph Justus Scaliger and Jacobus Golius. Included in the Scaliger collection are about a dozen manuscripts which belonged to Franciscus Raphelengius. These collections consist of extremely rare, sometimes unique, manuscripts.. The publication consists of 267 Arabic manuscripts in 303 volumes, amounting to 109.517 pages, in full-colour, images.

Middle East Materials Project. The Middle East Materials Project (MEMP) preserves collections in digital and microform format of unique, rare, hard to obtain, and often expensive research material for Middle East studies. It also preserves deteriorating printed and manuscript scholarly materials. The geographic scope of MEMP coverage includes Arab countries, Israel, Turkey, Iran, and related areas not covered by other cooperative materials projects.

The Minassian Collection: Persian, Mughal, and Indian Miniature Paintings. This project features Miniature paintings from the estate of Mrs. Adrienne Minassian. The paintings often include text from Persian and Indian tales. Many of the illustrations within the Minassian Collection are depictions of stories from the classical Persian text, Shahnama of Ferdowsi.

The Minassian Collection of Qur’anic Manuscripts. This database catalogues the holdings of over 200 Qur’anic manuscript folios dating from the 9th to the 16th centuries housed within the special collections of the Brown University libraries.

Princeton Digital Library of Islamic Manuscripts.The Princeton University Library has some 9,500 Islamic manuscripts, chiefly bound paper codices, containing a total of more than 20,000 texts.

The Schoenberg Institute for Manuscripts Studies. With its emphasis on the history of science and the transmission of knowledge across time and geography, the Lawrence J. Schoenberg Collection brings together many of the great scientific and philosophical traditions of the ancient and medieval worlds. Documenting the extraordinary achievements of scholars, philosophers, and scientists active in pre-modern Europe, Africa, and Asia, the collection illuminates the foundations of our shared intellectual heritage.

Walters Collection Digitized. Complete sets of high-resolution archival images of entire manuscripts from the collection of the Walters Art Museum, along with detailed catalog descriptions.