Thank you, Dr. Drechsler, for your helpful message, which I have forwarded
to the Italian student and her professor. The Abu Sulayman title
(Munazzamat Ilayja Muhammad al-Amrikiyah) is held by several US libraries,
which may be asked to supply the book on international ILL. In addition,
there seem to be good prospects of buying the book through Muhammad
Sulaiman, with whom the professor has already placed an order.
It is likewise gray here in putatively sunny California, grey (I'll use
both spellings), cold, and damp.
Ed Jajko
At 09:53 AM 12/7/00 +0000, you wrote:
>Hello Mr. Jajko (and everybody else on the list)
>
>I think a number of larger European libraries will have
>holdings on that particular subject. I just started a brief
>search on the German Union catalogue
>http://www.ubka.uni-karlsruhe.de/kvk.html
>with the keywords
>USA Islam (in the category "Schlagwort")
>and it turned up a considerable number of hits (14 hits
>for our OPAC). This was of course a very unspecified
>search, you could also look for just "Black muslims" in the
>category "Schlagwort" or "Titel" (less hits). I think this
>student has to get first a better knowledge of what she
>exactly wants (bibliographical work - still no way to avoid
>it!) and then check through the usual tools, the web-based
>catalogues. After that she would have to go for the
>international interlibrary loan. We get many requests of
>that kind from Italy (via fax and e-mail).
>
>Unfortunately I haven't found the title in question, but
>at least Tuebingen could have it in Germany. I think their
>older titles are worked into the catalogue after they have
>been requested by interlibrary loan, but I am not sure
>about that.
>
>Greetings from currently grey Bamberg
>Andreas Drechsler
>Librarian for Oriental Studies
>University Library of Bamberg
>Postfach 2705
>D-96018 Bamberg
>Germany
>Tel.: 0951/863-1530
>Fax: 0951/863-4530
>e-mail:
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Edward A. Jajko
Deputy Curator
Middle East Collection
Hoover Institution
Stanford, California
USA 94305-6010
tel.: 650-723-2050
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