Al-Makhtutat al-Arabiyya al-Mawjuda fi Maktabat al-Jami'a al-Amrikiyya fi Bayrut
[The Arabic Manuscripts in the American University of Beirut Library]

Yusuf Khoury

A catalogue of the 1,991 Arabic manuscripts in the AUB library. Of these, 1,301 are classified according to the Dewey Decimal Classification System. Others which are on microfilm have also been catalogued. A thorough description of each manuscript is provided, giving first and last lines, style of calligraphy, and so on. The author also shows how the university came to possess these manuscripts. The work is an invaluable guide to scholars and researchers.

Arabic, 1985, 739 pages, hardcover, $27.

American University of Beirut Research Report (1-21)

These volumes report on the scholarly activity of faculty members at AUB, listing research reports and publications by department. Masters and doctoral theses are also included. The series began in the academic year 1959-50 and continued annually to 1973-74. From volume 16 the reports cover more than one year. The latest, for 1993-95, is volume 21.

English, circa 200 pages, paper. Distributed free upon request. Back copies available from 1972. Latest volume also on the WWW.

Bibliography of AUB Faculty Publications, 1866-1966

Edited by Suha Tamin

This volume contains a listing of the publications of 571 individuals who served at one time or another and for various lengths of time as members of the faculty of the American University of Beirut during its first hundred years. In all, the publications number nearly six thousand, of which about a fifth are books, while the rest are articles published in over 500 different journals. The bibliography clearly shows the development of AUB as a center for research as well as a teaching institution.

English, 1967, 401 pages, soft cover, $7.

The Civil War in Lebanon, 1975-76: A Bibliographical Guide

Compiled by Linda Sadaka and Nawaf Salem

This bibilography lists 572 Arabic and 388 English, French, German, Italian, Russian and Japanese sources on the early civil war in Lebanon. It includes books and periodicals, theses, studies, poems, plays, drawings and documents on internal, regional and international aspects of the war. The listing excludes newspaper material and general works unrelated to the war, making it an invaluable guide to libraries and researchers. Subject as well as author indexes make for easy reference.

Arabic and English, 1982, 94 pages, indexes, soft cover, $3.

Fihris al-Muqtataf, 1876-1952
[The Index of al-Muqtataf, 1876-1952)]

Edited by Fuad Sarruf and Linda Sadaka

The “Muqtataf” was one of the leading Arabic scientific and cultural monthly journals of the latter part of the nineteenth and first half of the twentieth century. Published in Egypt and edited for many years by Ya'qub Sarruf and Faris Nimr, the editorship was later taken up by Fuad Sarruf, a well-known Arab literary figure and writer on science.

The index comes in three volumes. Entries are listed under the author's name, title and subject of the articles, each followed by volume number, year and page.

Arabic, 1967, 1968, Vol 1: 753 pages; Vol 2: 708 pages; Vol. 3: 698 pages, hardcover, $15 each.

A Selected and Annotated Bibliography of Economic Literature on the Arabic Speaking Countries of the Middle East

Economic Research Unit, AUB

The bibliographies in these two volumes, covering 1938-52 and 1953-65, give listings of publications, reports and monographs on the economies of the Arabic-speaking countries of the region, that is, the Arabian Peninsula, Egypt and Sudan, Iraq, Lebanon and Syria, Jordan and Palestine (pre-1948). The annotations that follow entries are descriptive of their content. Together the books form an important resource for the historian.

English with some Arabic and French, 1954 and 1967, Vol I: 1938-52, 210 pages, soft cover, $2; Vol II: 1953-65, 472 pages, soft cover, $2.