Manuscripts of the Islamic World at Princeton University Library

Below is a video describing how to search for material in our online library catalog when looking for Hebrew, Arabic, Persian, and Ottoman Turkish titles and authors. Time stamps for language groups are located below the video to help with navigation.

Click on the "hamburger button" on the upper left to jump to specific topics in the video. The table of contents for the topics is below the video.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

0:00-1:05  Introduction

Hebrew Language Searching

1:05-4:05 Hebrew Script vs. Transliteration

4:06-9:30  Which transliteration?

9:40-10:58  Hebrew author searches

10:58-11:50  Strategies to search successfully

11:50-12:42  Beyond keyword searching

12:42-17:14  Library of Congress (LC) Subject Headings

Arabic Searching (And Other Languages)

17:14-17:41  Introduction

17:42-19:52  Searching in Arabic, Persian, Ottoman Turkish, etc.

19:53-22:32  Transliteration

22:33-25:23  Browsing

25.23-27:11  LC Transliteration Interlude, with Browsing

27:12-34:06  Facets

34:07-35:13  Contact Us