MIDDLE EAST & CENTRAL ASIA CLASSMARKS ISLAM AND MIDDLE EAST IN WESTERN CENTRAL ASIA IN WESTERN LANGUAGES LANGU AGES O -- Caucasia N -- Islam OA -- Ciscaucasia NB -- Middle East OAA -- Adyge NC -- Arabian Peninsula OAB -- Chechen-Ingushia NCA -- Sinai Peninsula OAC -- Daghestan NE -- Egypt OAD -- Kabardino-Balkaria NEA -- Suez Canal OAE -- Karachai-Cherkessia NG -- Yemen OAF -- North Ossetia NH -- Southern Yemen OB -- Transcaucasia NH -- Aden OC -- Armenia A OCA -- Abkhazia NJ -- United Arab Emirates OCB -- Adjaria NJA -- Oman OCC -- South Ossetia NJB -- Muscat OD -- Azerbaijan NK -- Arabian Gulf Region ODA -- Nakhichevan NKA -- Qatar OG -- Georgia NKB -- Bahrain OH -- Caucasian peoples NKC -- Kuwait OHA -- Armenians NL -- Saudi Arabia OJ -- Crimea NM -- Socotra OL -- Ancient Central Asia NM -- Red Sea OM -- Islamic Central Asia A OMA -- Golden Horde NN -- Jordan ON -- Afghanistan NO -- Lebanon OP -- Modern Central Asia NP -- Syria OQ -- Kyrghyzstan NQ -- Iraq OQA -- Kazakhstan NR -- Arabs OR -- Turkmenistan NS -- Turkey OS -- Tajikistan NSA -- Balkans OT -- Uzbekistan NSB -- Albania OTA -- Karakalpak Region NSC -- Yugoslavia OU -- Bashkiria NSD -- Bulgaria OUA -- Chuvashia NSE -- Hungary OUB -- Tatarstan NSF -- Rumania OW -- Tuvan Region NT -- Iran OWA -- Yakutia NTA -- Iranian Azerbaijan OX -- Turkic peoples NU -- Kurdistan NUA -- Iraqi Kurdistan QJ -- Israel/Palestine NUB -- Iranian Kurdistan QJA -- Palestine (Gaza and West Bank) NUC -- Turkish Kurdistan NV -- Iranian Peoples NX -- Spain (Andalus) NXA -- Gibraltar MIDDLE EAST & CENTRAL ASIA CLASSMARKS ARABIC LANGUAGE MATERIAL PLA -- Old Persian P -- Arabic PLB -- Avestan PA -- Arabic Dialects PLC -- Western Middle Iranian PAA -- Egyptian PLD -- Soghdian PAB -- Iraqi PLE -- Khawrezmian PAC -- Jordanian PLF -- Khotanese PAD -- Judæo-Arabic PLG -- Bactrian PAE -- Lebanese PM -- Modern Persian PAF -- North-African PMA -- Dari PAG -- Algerian PMB -- Tadjik PAH -- Libyan PMC -- Judaeo-Persian PAI -- Moroccan PMD -- Persian dialects of Iran PAJ -- Tunisian PN -- Other modern Iranian languages PAK -- Chadian PNA -- Balochi PAN -- Palestinian PNB -- Kurdish PAO -- Saudi Arabian PNC -- Ossetic PAP -- Sudanese PND -- Pashto PAQ -- Syrian PNE -- Yaghnobi PAR -- Gulf Arabic PNF -- Pamir languages PAS -- Yemeni PNG -- Ishkashmi PAT -- Spanish Arabic PNH -- Shughni PB -- Epigraphic Arabian PNI -- Yazghulami languages(Sabaean) PNJ -- Yighda PBA -- South Arabian languages PNK -- Wakhi INDO-EUROPEAN LANGUAGES TURKIC LANGUAGES PE -- Armenian PP -- Turkic languages PF -- Tocharian PPA -- Old Turkic PPB -- Old and Middle Uighur CAUCASIAN LANGUAGES PPC -- Orkhon & Yenesei inscriptions PQ -- Middle Turkic PG -- Caucasian languages PQA -- Koman PH -- North Caucasian languages PQB -- Kipchak PHA -- Abkhaz PQC -- Armeno-Kipchak PHB -- Agul PQD -- Mamluk-Kipchak PHC -- Andi PR -- Modern Turkic PHD -- Archi PRA -- Modern Turkish PHE -- Avar PRB -- Azerbaijani PHF -- Chechen P R C -- Karachai-Balkar PHG -- Circassian PRD -- Kumyk PHH -- Dargwa PRE -- Nogai PHI -- Dido PRF -- Karaim PHJ -- Ingush PRG -- Gagauz PHK -- Kabardian PU -- Turki PHL -- Kazi-Kumuk PUA -- Turkmen P H -- Khinalugh PUB -- Chagatai M PUC -- Uzbek PHN -- Lesgian PUD -- Uighur PHO -- Tabassaran PUE -- Kirghiz PHP -- Tsova-Tush PUF -- Kazakh PHQ -- Ubykh PUG -- Karakalpak PHR -- Udi PHS -- Akhvakh PV -- Altaic Languages PHT -- Chamalal PVA -- Altai/Oirot PHU -- Karata PVB -- Shor PHV -- Rutul PVC -- Khakas PJ -- South Caucasian languages PVD -- Tuvinian PJA -- Georgian PVE -- Yakut PJB -- Laz PW -- Volga River Region (Russia) PJC -- Mingrelian PWA -- Bashkir PJD -- Svanetian PWB -- Chuvash PWC -- Tatar IRANIAN LANGUAGES PWD -- Crimean Tatar PL -- Iranian languages THE MIDDLE EAST & CENTRAL ASIA COLLECTIONS MAIN HOLDINGS: Arabic language material (shelf mark P) and Islam & Middle East (shelf mark N to NXB) . Persian language material (shelf mark PM) and Iran (shelf mark NT) The Section also specialises in works in Persian from Iran and works on Iran in all languages. Books on Iran include Ancient Iran and a section on all aspects of Zoroastrianism and other Iranian religions. (For the Parsis in India see the South Asia Section.) Other important collections are the Ancient Iranian languages, like Avestan and Pahlavi, and the modern Iranian languages, like Kurdish, Pashto, and Balochi. Turkish language material (shelf mark PRA) and Turkey (shelf mark NS) The third largest part of the section is the Turkish language material, and the materials on modern Turkey and the Ottoman Empire in Western languages are also extensive. The section also contains significant collections of non-Islamic languages, literatures and cultures. Largest of these are the Armenian (shelf mark PE) and Georgian (shelf mark PJA) collections. For books on : PALESTINE AND PALESTINIANS see QJ and QJA BYZANTINE EMPIRE see QT CRETE see QUA Located in the ANCIENT CYPRUS see QUB NEAR EAST, SEMITICS AND MALTA see QUC JUDAICA Section RHODES see QUD CHIOS see QUE ISLAMIC LAW (SHARIAH) see A345.6 Located in the LAW Section POSITIVE LAWS OF THE REGION (QANUN) see A345.6... ISLAMIC ART AND ARCHAEOLOGY see the ART & ARCHITECTURE Section .