International Friends of the Bibliotheca Alexandrina

Requested Books

On this page you can browse the BA wish list of titles. The BA Librarians are looking forward to add these titles to the Librarie's collections.

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Ancient Library of Alexandria Click Here

Select	Title	Author	Date
	Patrologiae Cursus Completus	J. Migne. Keip		more on this title
	Greek and Roman Historiography in Late Antiquity: Fourth to Sixth Century A.D	Gabriele Marasco	2003	more on this title
	A dictionary of Greek and Roman geography	Smith, William	2006	more on this title

Arab/Islamic Heritage Click Here

Select	Title	Author	Date
	The rise of the Fatimids: the world of the Mediterranean and the Middle East in the fourth century of the Hijra, tenth century CE	Michael Brett	2000	more on this title
	The Mamluks in Egyptian and Syrian politics and society	Michael Winter & Amalia Levanoni	2003	more on this title
	Christians at the Heart of Islamic Rule: Church Life and Scholarship in 'Abbasid Iraq	David Thomas	2003	more on this title
	The Historiography of Islamic Egypt (c. 950-1800)	Hugh Kennedy	2000	more on this title
	Encyclopedia of Women & Islamic Cultures		2003	more on this title
	Islamic Philosophy, Theology and Science. Texts and Studies [series title	Hans Daiber and David Pingree	1988-2005	more on this title

Classical Studies Click Here

Select	Title	Author	Date
	A dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology	Smith, William	2006	more on this title
	A dictionary of Greek and Roman culture	Smith, William	2006	more on this title
	Lexicographi Graeci: Suidae Lexicon	Ada Adler		more on this title
	The Prosopography of the Later Roman Empire	A. H. M. Jones	1992	more on this title

Geography Click Here

Select	Title	Author	Date
	TAVO – Tübinger Atlas des Vorderen Orients = Tuebingen Atlas of the Near & Middle East	Kai-Henning Gerlach		more on this title