duPont Library: Arabic Research Guide: Getting Started

This subject guide brings together some resources for the study of Arabic language and literature. If you don't see what you need, or would like something added, please let me know.

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Credo Reference Search Box

Credo Reference This link opens in a new window
A collection of over 3,000,000 reference entries on topics from all the major
academic subject areas serving as a great starting point for research. Full text articles plus images, audio files, and videos. Credo Reference also includes cross-references to other full text titles containing related information.
Includes more than 450 encyclopedias, dictionaries, handbooks, guides, and atlases in all fields. Sources are selected from 100 major publishers, such as ABC Clio, Bloomsbury, Cambridge University Press, Elsevier, Greenwood, Penguin, Routledge, Sage, Thames and Hudson, Wiley, and more.

Online Reference Collections

Oxford Reference Online This link opens in a new window
Contains 187 fully-indexed, cross-searchable reference works published by Oxford University Press. The collection includes subject encyclopedias, dictionaries, and reference works in more than 20 subject areas.
We have the Premium Collection and the Western Civilization Collection.
Gale eBooks This link opens in a new window
A collection of encyclopedias and specialized reference sources for multidisciplinary research.

Dictionaries in the duPont Library

Al-Mawrid Dictionary by Munir Baalbakki; Ramzi Munir Baalbaki
Call Number: Reserve PJ6640 .B35 2007
ISBN: 9789953631097
A Dictionary of Modern Written Arabic by Hans Wehr; J. Milton Cowan
Call Number: Reserve PJ6640 .W44 2011
ISBN: 9781607963875
Publication Date: 2011-11-01

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