Ger-Geschichte der Arabisch 6v A New Edition, with a Preface by Jan Just Witkam

' Ever since its first publication Brockelmann's Geschichte der arabischen Litteratur has been an essential and very helpful tool of research for serious scholars of Islamic and Arab affairs. '
W. Montgomery Watt, Emeritus Professor, University of Edinburgh.
' It is now nearly a century since the first edition of Brockelmann's GAL was published, and in the intervening period, it has established itself as the essential, premier biobibliographical reference work for Arabic literature ranging from pre-Islamic times to the early twentieth century. It represents a stupendous achievement for one man, and it seems improbable that any one scholar will be able to replace it with an updated survey of similar chronological and regional breadth and such detail. '
C. Edmund Bosworth, Emeritus Professor, University of Manchester.
' En 1968, Rudi Paret écravait à propos de cet opus magnum consacré à la production écrite en langue arabe: "it [...] constitutes a necessary part of the personal library of any Islamic student". Près de trente ans après, il demeure l'un des premiers ouvrages que l'on consulte lors dúne recherche sur les auteurs classiques et post-classiques. '
Claude Gilliot, Université de Provence
' Brockelmanns GAL ist zum unentbehrlichen Hilfsmittel zu allen Fragen der arabischen Literatur und ihrer Geschichte geworden.[...] Für jeden nämlich, der sich ernsthaft mit dieser umfassenden Wissenschaft beschäftigt, wird die GAL auch in Zukunft Ausgangspunkt sein und bleiben. '
Rudolf Sellheim, Emeritus Professor, University of Frankfurt.