Research Guides: Middle Eastern Studies: Arabic Dictionaries & Encyclopedias

Al-Mawdrid : A Modern Arabic-English Dictionary
Call Number: Baker-Berry Ref. PJ6640 .B35 2007

Bayrūt : Dār al-ʻIlm lil-Malāyīn, 2007.
A Dictionary of Modern Written Arabic : (Arabic-English) by Hans Wehr, ed.
Call Number: Baker-Berry Ref. PJ6640 .W43 1979

An enlarged and improved version of Arabisches Worterbuch fur die Schriftsprache der Gegenwart.
Wiesbaden : Harrassowitz, c1979
Arabic-English Lexicon by E.W. Lane
Call Number: Baker-Berry Ref. PJ6640 .L26 1984 v.1-2

Cambridge, England : Islamic Texts Society, 1984.
Arabic-English Thematic Lexicon
Call Number: Baker-Berry PJ6640 .N46 2007

London ; New York : Routledge, 2007
English-Arabic and Arabic-English dictionary by John Wortabet and Harvey Porter. With a supplement of modern words and new meanings by John L. Mish
Call Number: Baker-Berry Ref. PJ6640 .W57 1954

New York, F. Ungar Pub. Co. [1954]
Wörterbuch der klassischen arabischen Sprache
Call Number: Baker-Berry PJ6645.G5 W6 1970

Wiesbaden : Otto Harrassowitz, 1970-

Encyclopedias

Arabic Literature (by Pierre Cachia, Encyc. Islam, 3rd ed.)
An overview article from the 3rd ed. of the Encyclopedia of Islam.
Encyclopedia of Islam Online [1st-3rd eds.]
Encyclopedia of Arabic Language and Linguistics
Also: Baker-Berry Ref. PJ6031 .E53 2006 v. 1-3
Encyclopedia of Arabic Literature
New York : Routledge, 1998.
Baker-Berry Ref. PJ7510 .E53 1998 v.1-2
Undergraduate's Companion to Arab Writers and their Web Sites
Westport, Conn. : Libraries Unlimited, 2004.
Baker-Berry Ref. Z3014.L56 S77 2004
Alam al-adab al-Arabi al-muasir : siyar wa-siyar dhatiyah
Bayrūt : Yuṭlabu min Dār al-Nashr Frānts Shatāynir, 1996.
Baker-Berry Ref. PJ7521 .A43 1996 v.1-2
Muʻjam al-muʼallifīn : tarājim muṣannifī al-kutub al-ʻArabīyah
Bayrūt : Muʼassasat al-Risālah, 1993.
Baker-Berry Ref. PJ7517 .K34 1993 v.1-4
Biography & bibliography for writers & scholars.
Dictionnaire de litteratures de langue arabe et maghribine francophone
Paris : Presses universitaires de France, c2000.
Baker-Berry PJ7510 .B46 2000
Brill's Encyclopaedia of the Qur'an
Baker-Berry Ref. BP133 .E53 2001 v.1-5, Index vol.
al-Mawsūʻah al-ʻArabīyah al-ʻālamīyah
Baker-Berry AE10.55 .M356 1999 v.1-30.
Based on the World Book Encyclopedia.
Mujam al-mustalahat al-Arabiyah fi al-lughah wa-al-adab
Baker-Berry PJ6680 .W34 1984
A dictionary of Arabic literary & linguistic terms.