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Download Free Maps Documents, Manuscripts, & Newspapers. Palestine, Egypt, Lebanon, Turkey & the Ottoman Empire

51 Maps of Syria and Palestine

Maps of Palestine and Syria

21 Maps of Egypt & Sinai

Maps of Egypt

8 Maps of Lebanon & Jordan

Maps of Lebanon

Maps of Europe

Ottoman Maps of the Ottoman Empire

Maps of the Ottoman Empire

Maps of Asia

Maps of the Middle East

Maps of Turkey

3 Arabic Maps of the World, 1835

Maps of the world

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The Palestine Education Collection consists of dozens of documents from the 1920s-1950 relating to education in Palestine during the British Mandate period and beyond.

Download the Gaza Collection, consisting of 600+ documents related to history of Gaza and Palestine from the 1910s-1970s. Most of the material dates to 1920s-1950s. Palestine Nexus acquired this collection from Saleem Elrayes, Gaza-based antique dealer.

Download The Palestinian Arab Index, 1946. Al-Lajna al-Thaqafa al-‘Arabiyya, al-Kitab al-‘Arabi al-Filastini (n.p.: Matba‘at al-Liwa al-Tijariyya, 1946). An index of books published either in Palestine in the first half of the 20th century.

Yusuf Jahshan (c. 1760s), a Diary from Ramla, Palestine

Yusuf Jahshan (c. 1760s), Book of Daniel, Ramla, Palestine

Download Yusuf Jahshan’s 18th-century copy of the Book of Daniel. You can read more about Yusuf Jahshan here.

Filastin (1911-1912), a bi-weekly Arabic periodical published in Jaffa

Filastin (1911-1912), a bi-weekly Arabic periodical published in Jaffa

Download 1911-1912 copies of Filastin, an Arabic periodical published twice a week in Jaffa and distributed widely across Palestine. beginning in 1911.

Ottoman Archival Records, depicting disease rates in Mount Lebanon, (1915-1916)

Ottoman Archival Records, disease rates in Mount Lebanon, (1915-1916)

Download charts & bar graphs painted by Ottoman Bureaucrats during World War I in Mount Lebanon. For more, see here. Source: Başbakanlık Osmanlı Arşivi (BOA), DH.İ.UM.EK 84/9.

Muhibb al-Din al-Hamawi (d. 1608), al-Durra al-Mudi’a fi al-Rihla al-Misriyya

Muhibb al-Din al-Hamawi (d. 1608), al-Durra al-Mudi’a fi al-Rihla al-Misriyya

This manuscript (Landberg 437) is an account of al-Hamawi’s voyage to Egypt in 1590 .

Murtada ibn Mustafa al-Kurdi (d.1734), Tadhhib al-Atwar fi ‘Aja’ib al-Amsar

Murtada ibn Mustafa al-Kurdi (d.1734), Tadhhib al-Atwar fi ‘Aja’ib al-Amsar

This manuscript (Berlin: Sprenger 23a, film: 1369) is an account of the little known Damascene traveller, Murtada al-Kurdi.

‘Abd al-Qadir Abi al-Sa‘ud (c. 1840-1), Min Misr ila Islambul (Dar al-Kutub Manuscripts, Bab al-Khalq #755, Cairo, Egypt)

‘Abd al-Qadir Abi al-Sa‘ud (c. 1840-1), Min Misr ila Islambul (Dar al-Kutub, Bab al-Khalq #755, Cairo, Egypt)

This manuscript is an account of the Jerusalemite’s al-Sa‘ud travels from Jerusalem to Istanbul. For more, see here.

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The Geography of Palestine, 1904 (Jurji al- Khuri Sbiridun Sarruf (trans.), Jughrafiyat Filastin: Li-Isti‘mal Madaris al-Qabr al-Muqaddas al-‘Amma (Jerusalem: Matba‘at al-Qabr al-Muqqadas, al-Mutakhassa bi-dayr al-Run al-‘Amir, 1904)

Download the Geography of Palestine, 1904 (Jurji al- Khuri Sbiridun Sarruf (trans.), Jughrafiyat Filastin: Li-Isti‘mal Madaris al-Qabr al-Muqaddas al-‘Amma (Jerusalem: Matba‘at al-Qabr al-Muqqadas, al-Mutakhassa bi-dayr al-Run al-‘Amir, 1904)

The History of Jerusalem, 1920. Khalil Totah and Bulus Shihadah, Tarikh al-Quds wa-Daliluha (Jerusalem: Matba‘at Mir’at al- Sharq, 1920)

Download the History of Jerusalem, 1920, published by Khalil Totah and Bulus Shihadah, Tarikh al-Quds wa-Daliluha (Jerusalem: Matba‘at Mir’at al- Sharq, 1920)

Download hundreds of Turkish and Ottoman documents, letters and private papers from Haldun Gürmen and other prominent Turkish scholars (1920s-1970s).

A History of Gaza (1943) 'Arif al-'Arif, Tarikh Gazza (Jerusalem: Matba‘at Dar al-Aytam al-Islamiyya, 1943)

Download selections from 'Arif al-'Arif, Tarikh Gazza (Jerusalem: Matba‘at Dar al-Aytam al-Islamiyya, 1943).

Greater Lebanon (1924). Yusuf Sufayr, Jughrafiyat Lubnan al-Kabir wa-Hukumat Suriya wa-Filastin (Beirut: Matabi‘ Kuzma, 1924)

Download Greater Lebanon (1924). Yusuf Sufayr, Jughrafiyat Lubnan al-Kabir wa-Hukumat Suriya wa-Filastin (Beirut: Matabi‘ Kuzma, 1924)

Download this Ottoman geography book published in 1875 in Istanbul by Ahmet Hamdi, Usûl-i Coğrafya-yı Kebîr, Yahya Efendi Matbaası.

Download the Harissa Monastery Diaries from Lebanon (1914-1918).

Download 30,000 British archival documents related to Egypt, ~1900-1925

Download hundreds of unique Ottoman Documents from the 19th & 20th centuries.

Download French documents related to Alexandretta, or Hatay, before & after its handover from French controlled Syria to Turkey.

Download ʻUmar al-Ṣāliḥ al-Barghūthī & Khalīl Ṭūṭaḥ, A History of Palestine (Tārīkh Filasṭīn) (1923)

Download Jamil al-Bahri, A History of Haifa (Tārīkh Ḥaifā), (1922).

Download Khalil Totah and Habib Khuri, Jughrafiyat Filastin (Jerusalem: Matba‘at Bayt al-Maqdis, 1923)

Download Ṣabrī Sharīf ʻAbd al-Hādī, Jughrāfīyat Sūriyā wa-Filasṭīn al-ṭabīʻīyah (al-Matbaʻah al-Rahmānīyah, al-Qāhirah, 1923)

Download Maktabat Bayt al-Maqdis, al-Mukhtasar al-Jughrafi Li-Ahdath Filastin (Geographical summary of Palestine), 1945