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WikiProject Israel Resource Centre
This is a project to organize resource material related to the geography and historical geography of the Land of Israel, aka Palestine (region), from a historical perspective, culled from a number of travelers, researchers, archaeologists, and historical geographers, and their works, with their names arranged here in alphabetical order


Books

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Citation tools

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  • Wikipedia tools with a website interface that provide a complete formatted reference based on a few initial details.

General book searches

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  • Major sources to find old books listed:
  1. Google-books: http://books.google.com
  2. Project Gutenberg: http://www.gutenberg.org
  3. University of Adelaide Library; Browse by subject:
    1. Travel and Exploration: The Eastern Mediterranean, Arabia and Egypt
  4. University of Michigan Library; Browse by subject:
    1. Bible lands
    2. Biblical researches in Palestine
    3. -- Description and travel
    4. -- Social life and customs
  5. University of Pennsylvania; Browse by subject:
    1. U. of Pennsylvania, The Holy Land
  6. Jerusalem Virtual Library; Browse by document type:
    1. Books
    2. Images
    3. Illustrations
    4. Maps
    5. Inscriptions

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Bibliographies
Sectio I. Scriptores de Palaestina
I. Scriptores universales
A. Itineraria et Topographiae a testibus oculatis conditae. 70
B. Geographi Palaestinae recentiores, qui non ipsi terram istam perlustrarunt, sed ex itinerariis modo recensitis aliisque fontibus sua depromserunt. 94
II. Scriptores de Palaestina Speciales
A. Scriptores de aere folo et fetilitate Palaestinae. 110
[...]
E. Scriptores de variis argumentis aliis hue pertinentibus. 117
  • 1824: Robert Watt, Bibliotheca Britannica; Or, A General Index to British and Foreign Literature:[2]

Old publications referring to the historical geography of the Land of Israel / Palestine (region), and which are (or should be) fully listed on the internet (not "privately" listed):

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D: Books referred to in: Beshara Doumani (1995): Rediscovering Palestine Merchants and Peasants in Jabal Nablus, 1700-1900,
K: Books referred to in: Walid Khalidi (1992): All that remains. Palestinian Villages Occupied and depopulated by Israel in 1948.
Pe: Books referred to in: Petersen, Andrew (2002): A Gazetteer of Buildings in Muslim Palestine: Volume I (British Academy Monographs in Archaeology)
P: Books referred to in: Thomas Philipp (2002) Acre: the rise and fall of a Palestinian city, 1730-1831 Columbia University Press,
R: Books referred to in: Rajab, Jehan S. (1989). Palestinian Costume, London: Kegan Paul International. ISBN 0-7103-0283-5.
S: Books referred to in: Alexander Schölch (1993): Palestine in Transformation, 1856-1882,
W: Books referred to in: Shelagh Weir (1989): Palestinian Costume,

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  • Barron, John Bernard (1922): Mohammedan Wakfs in Palestine Published by Ptd. at Greek Conv. Press, 73 pages

C

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  • Canaan, T (1927): Mohammedan Saints and Sanctuaries in Palestine. D K Pe S W
  • Croly, George. The Holy Land: Syria, Iduma, Arabia, Egypt & Nubia, From Drawings Made on the Spot by David Roberts. 2 vols. London, 1842, 1849. D

D, E,

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  • Delpuget, David (1866): Les Juifs d´Alexandrie, de Jaffa et de Jérusalem en 1865, S


F

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  • Farley, James Lewis (1858): Two years in Syria The full text, google-books, Can download PDF.
  • Finn, Elizabeth Anne, (1923): Palestine Peasantry: Notes on Their Clans, Warfare, Religion and Laws. London, D S
  • Fisher, Stanley, (1919): Ottoman Land Laws. London, D

G, H, I

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  • Inchbold, A C (1906): Under the Syrian sun: The Lebanon, Baalbek, Galilee, and Judaea. With 40 full-page coloured plates and 8 black-and-white drawings by Stanley Inchbold Published by Hutchinson, R

J, K

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  • Jaussen, J. A. (1927): Coutumes Palestiniennes. I. Naplouse et Son District, (Paris) D S W
  • Kelman, John, John Fulleylove (1912): The Holy Land Illustrated by John Fulleylove, Published by A. & C. Black, 301 pages --->Stillm.

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  • Lees; George Robinson (1905 [1897]): Village life in Palestine: A Description of the Religion, Home, Life, Manners, Customs and Characteristics and Superstitions of the Peasants of the Holy Land with Reference to the Bible. London: Longmans, Green and Co. K
  • Alexander Crawford Lindsay Crawford, Jonathan Farren (1838): Letters on Egypt, Edom and the Holy Land Edition: 2, Published by H. Colburn, Item notes: v. 2, 780 pages The full text, google-books, Can download PDF
  • Livingstone, William Pringle (1923): A Galilee Doctor: Being a Sketch of the Career of Dr. D.W. Torrance of Tiberias, Published by Hodder and Stoughton, 295 pages

M, N, O

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  • Merrill, Selah (1881): East of the Jordan: A Record of Travel and Observation in the Countries of Moab, Gilead, and Bashan, Published by Bentley, 549 pages S
  • Merril, S. (1908). Ancient Jerusalem. New York, Chicago [etc.]: Fleming H. Revell company.
    • (see especially "Rock and Quarries about Jerusalem", p. 367ff )
  • Mills, John, (1864): Three Months’ Residence at Nablus and an Account of the Modern Samaritans. London, D R
  • Mukaddasi (1994). The Best Divisions for Knowledge of the Regions. Translated by Basil Anthony Collins. Reading: Garnet Publishing. ISBN 1-873938-14-4.
    • alt.:Mukaddasi (1906). Kitāb Aḥsan at-taqāsīm fī maʻrifat al-aqālīm (The Best Divisions for Knowledge of the Regions) (in Arabic). Leiden: Brill Co. OCLC 313566614. (3rd edition printed by Brill in 1967)
  • Mülinen, Egbert Friedrich von 1908, Beiträge zur Kenntnis des Karmels "Separateabdruck aus der Zeitschrift des Deutschen Palëstina-Vereins Band XXX (1907) Seite 117-207 und Band XXXI (1908) Seite 1-258." Pe S
  • Musil, Alois (1907). Arabia Petraea (in German). Vol. 1–4. Vienna (Wien): Alfred Hölder, for the Kaiserliche Akademie der Wissenschaften. OCLC 465845427. (with excerpts on Jerusalem and other places in Palestine)
  • Neumann, Bernhard (1877): Die heilige Stadt und deren Bewohner in ihren naturhistorischen, culturgeschichtlichen, socialen und medicinischen Verhältnissen Published by Der Verfasser, 512 pages

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  • Personal Recollections of Turkish Misrule and Corruption in Syria: By a Syrian. With an Introduction by the Rev. Wm. Denton, Published by published for the Eastern Question Association, 28, Canada Building, Westminster; by Cassell Petter & Galpin, London, Paris & New York, 1877 15 pages
  • Ludwig Preiss, Paul Rohrbach (1926): Palestine and Transjordania Published by Macmillan, 230 pages R


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Appendix: List of works. Index for all 3 volumes: Arabic names: p. 199 ancient names: p. 237

Index for both volumes: p. 577

Index for both volumes: p. 577

Index for vol 1 & 2: p. 577

Index for vol 3: p. 643

Index p. 643

Index p. 643

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  • Spilsbury, Francis B., Edward Orme (1823): Picturesque Scenery in the Holy Land and Syria: Delineated During the Campaigns of 1799 and 1800, Published by Howlett & Brimmer for G.S. Tregear, 70 pages
  • Stebbing, Henry (1847): The Christian in Palestine: Or, Scenes of Sacred History, Historical and Descriptive Illustrated by William Henry Bartlett Published by G. Virtue, 1847, 234 pages



T, U

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  • Tristram, Henry Baker (1881): Pathways of Palestine: A Descriptive Tour Through the Holy Land. Published by Low & Co., R

V

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  • Laura Valentine (1893): Palestine past and present, pictorial and descriptive. K


W

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  • Walker, B. (1881): The future of Palestine as a problem of international policy S
  • Wallace, Alexander (1868): The Desert and the Holy Land Published by William Oliphant, 400 pages The full text, google-books, Can download PDF. S
  • Weakley, E. (1911): Report on the Conditions and prospects of British Trade in Syria, in Issawi (ed.), 1966 W
  • Wilson, William Rae (1823): Travels in Egypt and the Holy Land Edition: 2 Printed for Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, 544 pages The full text, google-books, Can download PDF.

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  • Zimpel, Charles Franz (1865): Strassen-verbindung des Mittelländischen mit dem Todten Meere und Damascus über Jerusalem mit Heranziehung von Bethelehem, Hebron, Tiberias, Nazareth etc.... Published by H.L. Brönner, 47 pages
  1. ^ Struve, Burkhard Gotthelf; Buder, Christian Gottlieb; Meusel, Johann Georg (1782). "CAPUT IV. Scriptores de rebus Hebraeorum et Iudaeorum". Bibliotheca historica. Vol. I Pars II. apud heredes Weidmanni et Reichium. p. 390. Image of Title page & p. 390 at Google Books {{cite book}}: External link in |quote= (help)
  2. ^ "Bibliotheca Britannica ; or, A general index to ... v.4. Watt, Robert, 1774-1819". HathiTrust’s digital library. HathiTrust. hdl:2027/mdp.39076005081505. Retrieved 26 April 2015.
  3. ^ Tobler, Titus (1867). Bibliographica Geographica Palaestinae. Leipzig: Verlag Von S. Hirzel. Retrieved 19 June 2015. Image of Title page at Archive.org {{cite book}}: External link in |quote= (help)
  4. ^ Röhricht, Reinhold (1890). Reinhold Röhricht, Bibliotheca Geographica Palestine, from the year A.D. 333 to A.D. 1878. H. Reuther. p. 1. ISBN 9780790528007. Image of Title page at Google Books {{cite book}}: External link in |quote= (help)