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Middle East Maps - Perry-Castañeda Library Map Collection

The Perry-Castañeda Library Map Collection offers a wide range of maps of the Middle East. An image viewer that can decode JPEG and GIF images is needed to display these maps. Most of the images are JPEG images within the 200K to 300K range; however, some of the images are quite large. For large JPEG and GIF map images, the map must be resized to print the entire image (see below). Even after resizing, the quality and legibility of the printed map is dependent upon the quality of your printer.

For quickly printing the less detailed maps, you can save the map image file to your hard drive, and then open Microsoft Word. Select Insert from the menu bar, then Picture/File. This will print an entire map image but place names on detailed maps will not be large enough to be legible using this method. Also try reducing the scale at which a page is printed.

Finding Maps and Atlases

Maps and atlases are cataloged in Duke's online catalog. Atlases are housed in the Reference area and the Library stacks. Maps are located in map cases in the Public Documents & Maps Department. To find maps or atlases of a particular country, city, or other locality, perform a 'Subject begins...' search in the online catalog, typing: '[country/city] maps'. Click on one of the selected links below to see a list of cartographic holdings for this geographic entity:

Afghanistan - maps	Kurds - maps
Algeria - maps	Kuwait - maps
Baghdad - maps	Lebanon - maps
Bahrain - maps	Libya - maps
Beirut - maps	Morocco - maps
Cairo - maps	Nile Valley - maps
Egypt - maps	North Africa - maps
Emirates - maps	Palestine - maps
Ethnic Groups - ME	Saudia Arabia - maps
Gaza - maps	Sinai - maps
Iran - maps	Syria - maps
Iraq - maps	Tel Aviv - maps
Israel - maps	Tunisia - maps
Istanbul - maps	Turkey - maps
Jerusalem - maps	West Bank - maps
Jordan - maps	Yemen - maps

About Islamic Cartography

King, David A.: World-maps for finding the direction and distance to Mecca : innovation and tradition in Islamic science.
Leiden, The Netherlands ; Boston : Brill, 1999.
Library Service Center GA1263.6 .K56 1999 Check availability @ Duke

Sezgin, Fuat.: Mathematical geography and cartography in Islam and their continuation in the Occident.
Frankfurt am Main : Institute for the History of Arabic-Islamic Science, 2000-2007.
Perkins/Bostock Library GA3 .S4913 2000 v.1-3 Check availability @ Duke

Atlases

Blake, Gerald et al.: The Cambridge atlas of the Middle East & North Africa.
Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1987.
Lilly Library Reference 912.56 C178, 1987
Perkins/Bostock Library Reference Atlas Cases Oversize DS44 .C36 1988 Check availability @ Duke

Brice, William Charles.: An historical atlas of Islam.
Leiden : Brill, 1981
Perkins/Bostock Library International & Area Studies Reading Room G1786.S1 H6 1981
Lilly Library Atlas Case 2 912.1297 H673, 1981
Divinity School Library Stacks Folio 912.1297 H673, 1981 Check availability @ Duke

Freeman-Grenville, G. S. P.: Historical atlas of Islam.
New York : Continuum, 2002.
Lilly Reference G1786.S1 F7 2002
Perkins/Bostock Reference G1786.S1 F7 2002 Check availability @ Duke

Freeman-Grenville, G. S. P.: Islam : an illustrated history.
New York : Continuum, 2006.
Perkins/Bostock International & Area Studies Reading Room DS35.63 .F74 2006 Check availability @ Duke

Gilbert, Martin.: The Routledge atlas of the Arab-Israeli conflict.
London ; New York : Routledge, 2008.
Perkins/Bostock Reference G2236.S1 G52 2008
Check availability @ Duke

Gilbert, Martin.: The Routledge historical atlas of Jerusalem.
London ; New York : Routledge, 2008.
Perkins/Bostock Reference G2239.J4 G54 2008
Check availability @ Duke

Hammond Incorporated.: Atlas of the Middle East.
Revised 2000 edition.
Union, NJ : Hammond, 2000.
Perkins/Bostock Library Reference G2205 .H3 2000 Check availability @ Duke

Karta (Firm): Atlas of the Middle East.
New York : Macmillan Publishing Co. ; London : Collier Macmillan, c1988.
Lilly Library Reference 912.56 K18, A881, 1988
Perkins/Bostock Library Stacks G2205 .K33 1988 Check availability @ Duke

National Geographic Society.: Atlas of the Middle East.
Washington, D.C. : National Geographic Society, 2003.
Lilly Library Reference 912.56 N277, A881, 2003
Perkins/Bostock Library Reference G2205 .A853 2003 Check availability @ Duke

Nebenzahl, Kenneth.: Maps of the Holy Lands : images of Terra Sancta through two millenia.
New York : Abbeville Press, 1986.
Library Service Center 912.122 N361, M297, 1986 LSC Check availability @ Duke

Roolvink, R. (Roelof): Historical atlas of the Muslim peoples.
Cambridge, Harvard University Press, 1957.
Library Service Center 911.2 R777H LSC Check availability @ Duke

Ruthven, Malise.: Historical atlas of Islam.
Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 2004.
Perkins/Bostock Reference G1786.S1 R9 2004 Check availability @ Duke

Smith, Dan.: The state of the middle east : an atlas of conflict and resolution.
Berkeley : University of California Press, c2006.
Lilly Library Reference G2205 .S653 2006
Perkins/Bostock Library Reference G2205 .S653 2006 Check availability @ Duke

Sonderforschungsbereich 19 "Tübinger Atlas des Vorderen Orients".: Tübinger Atlas des Vorderen Orients (TAVO).
Wiesbaden : Reichert, 1977-
Perkins Public Documents/Maps Maps Reference G2205 .T8 1977
Perkins Public Documents/Maps Maps Reference Oversize G2205 .T8 1977 Check availability @ Duke

General Maps

United States. Central Intelligence Agency.: Middle East.
Washington, D.C. : Central Intelligence Agency, 2003
Perkins Public Documents/Maps Maps PREX 3.10/4:M 58/38 Check availability @ Duke

United States. Central Intelligence Agency.: Middle East.
Washington, D.C. : Central Intelligence Agency, 2003
Perkins Public Documents/Maps Maps PREX 3.10/4:M 58/37
Perkins Public Documents/Maps Maps Vertical File G7420 2003 .U5 Check availability @ Duke

United States. Central Intelligence Agency.: Middle East.
Washington, D.C. : Central Intelligence Agency, 1998]
Perkins Public Documents/Maps Maps G7420 1998 .U5 Vertical file
Perkins Public Documents/Maps Maps PREX 3.10/4:M 58/29 Map shelf Check availability @ Duke

United States. Central Intelligence Agency.: Europe, North Africa, and the Middle East.
Washington, D.C. : Central Intelligence Agency, 1998
Perkins Public Documents/Maps Maps G5670 1998 .U5 Vertical file
Perkins Public Documents/Maps Maps PREX 3.10/4:EU 7/18 Map shelf Check availability @ Duke

United States. Central Intelligence Agency.: Northern Africa and the Middle East.
Washington, D.C. : Central Intelligence Agency, 1995
Perkins Public Documents/Maps US Documents PREX 3.10/4:N 81 A/19 Check availability @ Duke

United States. Central Intelligence Agency.: Middle East [jp2 format].
Washington, D.C. : Central Intelligence Agency, 1991
Electronic Resource http://purl.access.gpo.gov/GPO/LPS45347
Perkins Public Documents/Maps Maps PREX 3.10/4:M 58/24/991 Check availability @ Duke

John Bartholomew and Son.: Jordan, Syria, Lebanon, Iraq.
Edinburgh : Bartholomew, c1977.
Perkins Public Documents/Maps Maps G7420 1977 .J6 Check availability @ Duke

John Bartholomew and Son.: The Middle East.
Edinburgh, 1973.
Perkins Public Documents/Maps Maps G7420 1973 .J6 Check availability @ Duke

Hammond Incorporated.: The crisis area.
Maplewood, N.J. [1969]
Perkins Public Documents/Maps Maps G7420 1969 .H3 Check availability @ Duke

United States. Armed Forces Information and Education Division.: Middle East countries : Syria, Iran, Iraq, Afghanistan, Jordan, Saudi-Arbia.
Washington, D.C. : Aeronautical Chart Service, U.S. Air Force, 1953.
Perkins Public Documents/Maps Maps G7420 1953 .U5 Check availability @ Duke

Great Britain. War Office. General Staff. Geographical Section.: Méditerranée orientale.
Washington : Army Map Service, 1943.
Perkins Public Documents/Maps Maps G5672 .M4 1942 .G7 Check availability @ Duke

John Bartholomew and Son.: Bartholomew's map of the Middle East : coloured to show height of land.
Edinburgh : Published at the Edinburgh Geographical Institute by John Bartholomew & Son, 193?
Rubenstein Library E Pam 12mo #1509 Check availability @ Duke

Thematic Maps

Raswan, Carl Reinhard.: Northern Arabia : Bedouin tribal areas and related landmarks.
New York : American Geographical Society of New York, c1930.
Perkins Public Documents/Maps Maps G7521 .E1 1930 .R3 Check availability @ Duke

Shirkat-i Gita Shinasi.: General map of railways Islamic Republic of Iran & its transit corridors = Naqshah-i jumah shábákáh-i rah-i ahan-i Jumhuri-i Islami-i Iran va muhavvaraha-yi transiti.
Tihran : Gita Shinasi, 1997
Perkins Public Documents/Maps Maps G7421.P3 1997 .S5 Check availability @ Duke

United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East.: Map of UNRWA's area of operations = Kharitat mintaqat amaliyat al-unarwa.
Gaza : Public Information Office, UNRWA H.Q., 1999.
Perkins Public Documents/Maps Maps G7421 .E625 1999 .U5 Check availability @ Duke

United States. Central Intelligence Agency.: Major ethnic groups in Central Asia.
Washington, D.C.: Central Intelligence Agency, 1993
Perkins Public Documents/Maps US Documents PREX 3.10/4:C 33 AS 1/993 Check availability @ Duke

United States. Central Intelligence Agency.: Major ethnic groups in predominantly Muslim areas.
Washington, D.C. : Central Intelligence Agency, 1989
Perkins Public Documents/Maps Maps PrEx 3.10/4:M 97/4 Check availability @ Duke

United States. Central Intelligence Agency.: Peoples of Iran : ethnolinguistic groups.
Washington, D.C. : Central Intelligence Agency, 1982
Perkins Public Documents/Maps Maps PrEx 3.10/4:Ir 1/3 Check availability @ Duke