Т. 1. «Азия и Африка: Наследие и современность»

Asia and Africa: their Heritage and Modernity. Vol. 1 29 Источниковедение и историография  Ближнего Востока is also part of the class. Emirates Studies students need to explore materials related to topics that have built the region and sustained the livelihood of the nation ranging from the records of ancient tribes to rise of the early trucial states to information about the falaj water channel systems, or economic information about pearl diving and fishing, to the contemporary topics of sustainable architecture and ecological tourism. The full spectrum of materials that are available in print and electronically are located in our special collections on each campus: Emirates Collection Dubai and Emirates CollectionAbu Dhabi. Depending on the material, the minimumwe would order of a monograph related to UAE interest (history, culture, etc) would be one circulating copy for each campus and one non-circulating copy for each campus, for a total of four copies. Depending on the price and availability of any UAE related material, we would try to buy more circulating copies. If a popular UAE material becomes out of print, or if all the circulating copies are not returned to us, then we find ourselves with a problem. Out of print monographs have been an on-going problem for us, therefore we need to explore digitization projects in the near future to sustain this much used and important collection. The library reference interviews with faculty, students, and visiting scholars, have been really interesting and challenging. My challenge as a non-Arabic speaker is to work with the Arabic portion of the collection. Our catalog is very sophisticated and most items are searchable in both Arabic and English, so I can easily direct patrons to the books on the shelf. Our Arabic language electronic resources are nearly impossible for me to assist, because the interface is also in Arabic, yet this is where many of the primary source documents are located. At this time, few Emiratis want to work in libraries and even fewer are qualified with a master’s degree in library and information science from an accredited library program; so there are very few Emirati librarians in university libraries. Yet our staff is lucky to be comprised of half Arabic speakers, so if possible I can refer a student who needs help with research to one of these staff members. Collection development and reference questions for Emirates History and UAE information is one of my favorites, because of the functional challenge of working with these materials and intellectual inquiry that goes with it. Often the topic is chosen because the patron is deeply interested in the topic, so this is something I hope to share with the participants at the Oriental Congress. Аверьянов Ю. А. (Институт востоковедения РАН, Москва) Еретические движения в Османской Турции XVI века на примере суфийского братства байрамийа (маламатийа) Суфийское братство байрамийа (восходящее к хорасанской традиции мала- матийа — «порицаемых») было основано Хаджи Байрамом Вели (ум. 1429)