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In spite of financial diffi• culties German research work on Islamic subjects quickly regained its former place in the realm of studies.
It will be interesting to review the studies and publications on Islamic subjects of the war years at some later date.
After more than ten years of isolation the main concern of German scholars of to-day must be, and certainly will be to resume their international relations and to regain their reputation as reliable workers "sine ira et studio " in the field of Islamic studies.
As the availability of literature is the necessary pre-requisite of all studies it seems only reason• able to commence with the present situation of German Oriental Libraries.
Of the world-famous stock of the Bibliothek der Deutschen Morgen• landischen Gesellschaft at Halle-on-Saale (Library of the German Oriental Society) about 50% of the books and MSS.
The fourth library of reputation in the field of Islamic studies in East Germany is the Leipzig University Library.
· The Relief Society for German Science (Notgemeinschaft der deut• schen Wissenschaft)has allotted the field of Islamic studies as ~· special sub• ject for future collections to the Tubingen University Library.
Other subjects treated at the meeting were: The Culture of Pre-Islamic South Arabia (Dr. Maria Hofcr-Tubingen), The Book of Drugs of the lbn Sumayun and the Beginnings of Arabic Medicine (Prof.
The number of students who take up Islamic studies as their subject is therefore extremely small at all German universities.