Scholarly reference works, bibliographic works and research tools pertaining to the political, economic, and social history of the Near and Middle East and the Muslim World at large. The volumes in this series are encompassing works in the humanities as well as the social sciences, and may include studies of religions, law, the history of science and medicine, arts, archaeology, anthropology, literature and linguistics. Many of the published works draw extensively from primary sources in original languages, for which HdO has the capacity to reproduce texts in original languages (and scripts), in transliteration, and in translation.
This series has published an average of ten volumes per year over the last 5 years.