Funding organisation: DFG Funding level: Personnel Running time:  2000 – 2002   Project description:   Prof. Ulrich Haarmann (1942-1999) was one of the most outstanding representatives of research on the history of medieval Egypt and Syria. His private library contained, among other things, approx. 1,000 publications, some of them very rare, mostly focused on the aforementioned research. The mostly completed transfer of the relevant holdings to the ULB Halle helped to preserve the literature apparatus of an important German Islam scholar as a whole and to make the literature more accessible for any future work in these fields. After the titles had been catalogued, permanent and free access to the literature was ensured via supraregional supply of literature after incorporating them in the holdings of the ULB Halle. The titles were indexed in the PICA database of the Common Library Network (GBV). Further parts of Prof. Haarmann’s estate library were indexed at the UB Erfurt and at the ThULB.   Supplementary information and publications:     List of the catalogued titles