About DAL

DAL (Database of Arabic Literature in English Studies), published by OxLit, is non-profit-making and open source, with no advertisements or subscriptions, for students and researchers who are bored of these intrusive tools of the internet. This database provides easy access to a content-rich bibliographical resource for searching books, articles, chapters of books and reviews about Arabic literature in English studies. It covers the period from the 18th Century, when the movement of translation and commentary of Arabic literary texts first began in English, until the present, and is particularly rich in material about poetry dating from the pre-Islamic period to the modern.

A unique feature of DAL is the detailed subject headings which contain information about translated poems, key terms and genres of Arabic literature and poetics, as well as biographical information of authors. As such, It provides an essential tool for graduates and undergraduates, as well as the general reader. Its specialised focus means that students and researchers seeking information on this subject have targeted results from their searches and avoid having to select amongst a vast number of records retrieved from standard catalogue searches.