Research Guide for Iran--selected reference and web resources
Overview sources
Encyclopaedia Iranica / edited by Ehsan Yarshater.
London ; Boston : Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1985 [i.e. 1983]-<1990
CASE Ref. DS253 .E53 1983 vol. 1-10
Countries and their cultures / Melvin Ember and Carol R. Ember,
editors.
New York : Macmillan Reference USA, 2001.
CASE Ref. GN307 .C68 2001 vol. 1-4 (see vol. 2 for Iran) and Online
Encyclopedia of modern Asia Online. Colgate Network 2004 ed
Encyclopedia of the Modern Middle East and North Africa (online) 2004 ed
- revision of Encyclopedia of the modern Middle East / edited by Reeva S.
Simon, Philip Mattar, Richard W. Bulliet.
New York : Macmillan Reference USA, c1996.
CASE Ref. DS43 .E53 1996 vol. 1-4
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Iran, a country study / Federal Research
Division, Library of Congress
LASR Main DS254.5 .I742 1989
Also available online from the Library
of Congress
The
world factbook.
Washington, D.C. : Central Intelligence Agency
CASE Ref. G123 .W67
Also available online,
click
here.
Iran -
Europa World Online
[Colgate University Only]
The Middle East and North Africa. Europa Publications. Regional Surveys of
the World
LASR Main DS49 .M5 older vols. to 1990
Background Note: Iran (U.S. Department of State)
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World press encyclopedia : a survey of press systems
worldwide Gale Virtual Reference
Colgate Network PN4728 .Q53 2003
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Online News Databases and News Sources
World development indicators
Washington, D.C. : The World Bank,
CASE Ref. HC59.15 .W656 2005
older eds. in LASR Main
International historical statistics : Africa, Asia &
Oceania,
1750-2000 / B.R. Mitchell. 4th ed.
Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire ; New York : Palgrave
Macmillan, 2003.
CASE Ref. HA4675 .M552 2003
Iran statistical yearbook / Islamic Republic of
Iran,
Management & Planning Organizations, Statistical Centre of Iran.
CASE Ref. HA4570.2 .A253
Statistical yearbook for Asia and the Pacific / United Nations =
Annuaire statistique pour l'Asie et le Pacifique /
CASE Ref. HA1665 .S73 2000
Library has: 1968- (older volumes are at LASR Main HA 1667.S73)
United Nations Statistics Division
Iran.
[Washington, D.C.? : Central Intelligence Agency, 2001]
CASE Docs Pamphlet PREX 3.10/4:IR 1/29
Iran.
[Washington, D.C.? : Central Intelligence Agency, 2001]
CASE Docs Pamphlet PREX 3.10/4:IR 1/30
Map showing geology, oil and gas fields, and geologic provinces
of Iran [computer file] / U.S. Department of the Interior, U.S.
Geological Survey ; 1999.
COOLEY Circ Desk I 19.76:97-470-G/VER.1-0
Major Muslim ethnic groups in Armenia, Iran, and the Islamic
Commonwealth States.
[Washington, D.C.? : Central Intelligence Agency, 1992]
CASE Maps PrEx 3.10/4:M 97/5
Atlas of the Middle East / Central Intelligence Agency.
[Washington, D.C.?] : The Agency ; Springfield, VA : National Technical
Information Service ; Washington, DC : 1993.
CASE Atlases G2205 .A87 1993
Atlas of the Arab world and the Middle East.
New York, St. Martin's Press, 1960.
CASE Atlases G1785 .D5 1960a
Atlas of the Islamic World since 1500 / by Francis Robinson.
New York, N.Y. : Facts On File, [c1982]
CASE Ref. DS35.6 .R6 1982
Perry-Castaņeda Library Map Collection (Online
resource)
Iran
Iran / Reza Navabpour, compiler. ; Santa Barbara, Calif. : Clio, c1988.
CASE Ref. DS272 .N38 1988
Islamic movements in Egypt, Pakistan, and Iran : an annotated
bibliography / Asaf Hussain.
London : Mansell Pub. ; 1983.
CASE Ref. BP63.A4 N42 1983
A selective bibliography of Islam and Iran : 1950-1987 : over
five thousand books with bibliographical information / [ed. by
Rayzan Research Institute]
Tehran, Iran : Ministry of Guidance and Islamic Culture, 1989.
CASE Ref. BP161.2 .S45 1989
The Iraq-Iran war : a bibliography / J. Anthony Gardner.
Boston, Mass. : G.K. Hall, 1989, c1988.
CASE Ref. DS318.85 .G37 1989
Iran, politics and government under the Pahlavis : an annotated
bibliography / by Dariush Gitisetan.
Metuchen, N.J. : Scarecrow Press, 1985.
CASE Ref. DS316.3 .G58 1985
Iran and the United States, 1979-1981 : three years of
confrontation : a selected list of references / compiled by
Ibrahim V. Pourhadi.
CASE Ref. E183.8.I55 P87 1982
The indexes below are particularly focused on areas relating to Iran. Many other indexes available on this page also cover relevant material. Chose the focus of your research from the subject guide and explore the possibilities. Indexes in the Multidisciplinary/General category will work for many subject searches.
Articles on the Middle East,
1947-1971 : a cumulation of the bibliographies from the Middle East journal
Case Ref DS44.A77
Index Islamicus Online - 1906+
Index Islamicus (East Grinstead, England)
Index Islamicus.
LIB. HAS 1993-
IMPRINT East Grinstead, West Sussex, UK : Bowker-Saur, 1994-
Case Ref BP161.2 .I64 (2003 ed in Case Indexes)
Index Islamicus (London, England : 1983)
Index Islamicus.
London : Mansell, 1983-
Case Ref BP161.2 .L62 1981-85 vol. 1-2
Index Islamicus, 1665-1905 : a bibliography of articles on
Islamic subjects in periodicals and other collective
publications / compiled by W.H. Behn. Millersville, Pa. Adiyok,
c1989.
Case Ref BP161.2 .L62 1665- 1905
Index Islamicus, 1906-1955 : a catalogue of articles on Islamic
subjects in periodicals and other collective publications / compiled by
J.D. Pearson.
Cambridge, England : W. Heffer, 1958.
Case Ref BP161.2 .L62 1906-55
Index Islamicus. Supplement.
[London, etc.] : Mansell [etc.]
Index Islamicus (London, England : 1983)
Cumulation of an annual volume, 1971-
Case Ref BP161.2 L62 1971-75
Case Ref BP161.2 L62 1961-65
The dictionary of art Grove's Dictionaries, 1996-
Colgate Network N31.D5 online
Biographical Encyclopaedia of Sufis : Central Asia and Middle
East / N. Hanif.
New Delhi : Sarup & Sons, 2002.
CASE Ref. BP189.4 .B562 2002
Culture
Encyclopedia of food and culture Colgate Network GT2850 .E53 2003
World Bank Group. Iran, Islamic Republic
Education
World education encyclopedia : a survey of
educational systems worldwide Gale Group
Colgate Network LB15 .W87 2001
Ethnic Groups and Nationalities
See also Countries and their Cultures
Encyclopedia of Islam and the Muslim World 2004 ed
Ethnic groups worldwide : a ready reference handbook / by David
Levinson.
Phoenix, Ariz. : Oryx Press, 1998.
CASE Ref. GN325 .L46 1998
The cultural atlas of Islam / Ismail R. al Faruqi and Lois Lamya
al Faruqi.
New York : Macmillan, c1986.
CASE Ref. DS36.85 .A39 1986
Muslim peoples : a world ethnographic survey / edited by Richard
V. Weekes ;
Westport, Conn. : Greenwood Press, 1984.
CASE Ref. DS35.625.A1 M87 1984 vol. 1-2
Index to the Iran-Contra hearings summary report / James Joseph
Sanchez.
Jefferson, N.C. : McFarland, 1988.
CASE Ref. E876 .U54 1988 Suppl
The history of Iran / Elton L. Daniel.
Westport, Conn. : Greenwood Press, 2001.
CASE Main DS272 .D36 2001
Historical dictionary of Iran / by John H. Lorentz.
Lanham, Md. : Scarecrow Press, c1995.
CASE Main DS270 .L67 1995
Historical dictionary of Islamic Fundamentalist movements in the
Arab world, Iran and Turkey.
Lanham, Md. ; London : Scarecrow, 1999.
CASE Ref. BP60 .M36 1999
The secret CIA history of the Iran Coup, 1953 [computer file] /
edited by Malcolm Byrne.
[Washington, D.C. : National Security Archive, George Washington
University], 2000.
COLGATE Network DS318 .S38 2000
(Online)
20 years after the hostages [computer file] : declassified
documents on Iran and the United States / edited By Malcolm
Byrne.
[Washington, D.C. : National Security Archive, George Washington
University], 1999.
COLGATE Network DS274.2.U6 A12 1999
(Online)
Amnesty International Report 2005
Country Reports on Human Rights Practices -
2004
(U. S. State Department)
Iran
Legal systems of the world : a political,
social, and cultural
encyclopedia / edited by Herbert M. Kritzer.
Santa Barbara, Calif. : ABC-CLIO, c2002.
CASE Ref. K48 .L44 2002 vol. 2 E-L
Guide to Law Online (Law Library of Congress)
(Online)
Iran
Literature
Iranian short story authors : a bio-bibliographic survey
/ John Green.
Costa Mesa, Calif. : Mazda, 1989.
CASE Ref. PK6443 G74 1989
Persian literature : a bio-bibliographical survey / by C.A. Storey.
London : Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland, 1970-72.
CASE Ref. PK6406 .S76 1970
South Asian folklore : an encyclopedia : Afghanistan,
Bangladesh,
India, Nepal, Pakistan, Sri Lanka / Margaret A. Mills, Peter J. Claus and
Sarah Diamond, editors.
New York : Routledge, 2003.
CASE Ref. GR302 .S68 2003
Music
New Grove dictionary of music and musicians (Online)
The Garland encyclopedia of world music / advisory editors, Bruno
Nettl and Ruth M. Stone ; founding editors, James Porter and
Timothy Rice.
New York : Garland Pub., 1998-
LASR Main ML100 .G16 1998 vol. 6
LASR Music ML100 .G16 1998 vol. 6 Disc
Chiefs of State and Cabinet
Members of Foreign Governments (U.S. CIA)
Iran
Handbook of political science research on the Middle East and
North Africa / edited by Bernard Reich.
Westport, Conn. : Greenwood Press, 1998.
CASE Ref. JQ1758.A58 H36 1998
See section: Iran / Mohsen M. Milani
Elections in Asia and the Pacific : a data handbook / edited by
Dieter Nohlen, Florian Grotz and Christof Hartmann. New York : Oxford University Press, 2001.
CASE Ref. JQ38 .E44 2001 vol. 1
Profiles in Terror : the guide to Middle East terrorist organizations /
Aaron Mannes
CASE Ref. HV6433.M5 M35 2004
Religion
The Encyclopaedia of Islam.
New ed., prepared by a number of leading orientalists ; edited by .... A.R. Gibb
[et al.]
Leiden, Brill, 1960-[i.e. 1954]-<1997- >
CASE Ref. DS37 .E523 vol. 1-12
Religions of the world : a comprehensive
encyclopedia of beliefs
and practices / J. Gordon Melton, Martin Baumann, editors ;
Santa Barbara, Calif. : ABC-CLIO, c2002.
CASE Ref. BL80.3 .R45 2002 vol. 1-4
The Greenwood encyclopedia of women's issues
worldwide. The
Middle East and North Africa / editor-in-chief, Lynn Walter ; Westport, Conn. : Greenwood Press, 2003.
CASE Ref. HQ1726.5 .G74 2003
Women's rights : a global view / edited by Lynn Walter.
Westport, Conn. : Greenwood Press, 2001.
CASE Ref. HQ1236 .W6527 2001
The World's women, 2000 : trends and statistics.
New York : United Nations, 2000.
CASE Ref. HQ1154 .W675 2000
Middle Eastern and Jewish Studies (Columbia
University)
Iran
Selected Internet Resources. Iran. Portals to the World (Library of Congress)