Centre library
A categorized index of the centre's library. Please be patient while the index is loading.
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Library catalogue by author
Only books that have "personal" authors exist in this catalogue. Edited collections er only listed in the catalogues by author and category lists.
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Library catalogue by title
This lists consists of all books, sorted alphabetically after title. Words like the, a, an,al-, der, die, le, etc.) was ignored while sorting the catalogue. Only the main title is listed, noe subtitles, titles of series etc.
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Library catalogue by categories
This list indexes books after category (shelf placement), which basically means indexing after geography.
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Index of journals
Index of titles of the journals one can find in the Centre's library at the University of Bergen, Centre for Middle Eastern and Islamic studies. The catalogue is yet to be indegrated fully in the Bibsys-catalogue. Continous journals in bold.
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The Collins Collection
In 1998, Professor Robert O.Collins, the foremost specialist on the history of the Southern Sudan, donated a large part of his private library to the Centre for Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies at Bergen University. Here it forms the core of our Sudan and Africa holdings. The listing of the gift presented below is in recognition of the great and generous gift of Professor Collins, and can guide the visitor of the Centre library to the usage of these books.
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The Mahmoud Salih Collection
University of Bergen recently received a unique book collection on the Sudan. The book collection belongs to the Sudanese businessman Mahmoud Salih and UoB will keep the collection at The Centre for Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies for at least five years before it will be returned to the Sudan. The collection contains about 2000 volumes of literature on the Sudan written in European languages. Some of the books are from the 18th century.