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Arabic materials in AUS Library are cataloged using the Library of Congress Romanization System. Romanization / Transliteration of Arabic is writing Arabic script in Latin characters. Searching WorldCat Discovery using transliterated keywords is necessary in order to retrieve relevant results. Please check the Arabic Romanization Table
Use the following Keywords to help you find books and other related materials in WorldCat Discovery
"Islamic civilization" - "Arabic literature" - "Arabic poetry" - "pre-Islamic poetry" -"Islamic poetry" - "Arab Heritage"
"Arabic language" - "Andalus" - "Andalusia"
A subject search can also be performed by typing in the suggested subjects below in WorldCat Discovery
su:Islamic civilization
su:Islam and science History
su:Muslim scientists History
su:Muslim scholars
su:Abbasids
su:Islamic Empire History 750-1258
su:Muslims Spain History
su:Spain Civilization 711-1516
su:Arabs Spain History To 1500
su:Andalusia (Spain) Civilization
su:Islam History To 1500
Teaching Arabic As a Heritage Language by 
A concise history of the Arabs by 
A history of the Arab peoples by 
The Literary Heritage of the Arabs by 
1001 Inventions by 
The Arabs by 
The Great Caliphs by 
The Life of Muhammad by 
The Arabs and Arabia on the Eve of Islam by 
The Arabic Literary Heritage by In order to find books and articles that inlclude biographical information about Muslims who had a great impact on Islamic civilization, please follow steps below:
You need to have full name of the person or at least his/her last name and year of birth and/or death. Use this link http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names.html to find the name authority of the person (a unique heading under which catalogers collocate all different versions of personal name spellings in different languages). You can either enter the name in Arabic script or transliterated (writing Arabic names in Roman characters). After locating a name authority, copy it and paste it into WorldCat Discovery search box.
You can also do a subject search of the following:
| Muslim/Arab Scholars | su:Muslim scholars Islamic Empire. |
| Muslim/Arab Philosophers | su:Muslim philosophers Islamic Empire. |
| Muslim/Arab Scientists | su:Muslim scientists Islamic Empire. |
| su:Muslim scientists Biography. | |
| Muslim/Arab Astronomers | su:Astronomy Arab. |
| Muslim/Arab Historians | su:Historians Islamic Empire Biography. |
Islamic Civilization in Thirty Lives
The Oxford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, Science, and Technology in Islam
