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Show Introduetion p. 7 academie friends of the Center, we were able to round up a fair representation of the coantries concerned in spite of our dwindling fínancial resources. We were also able to avail ourselves of the offices of some agents from the forbidden hoiy clties of Islam whom we accidentally met in Cairo and Beirut. In this wise, we acquired a number of sets, Sunnite and Shi'ite alike, pufelished at Mekka, Medina, Nagev, Karbala, Kufa and Basra. Thus the only área of the Arab world which was not adequateiy representad in our stacks was North África. However, we were able last summer to make a modest beginning with Tunisian materials from two sources. First, we discovered that the tt i? Beirut New Publishing House had recently secured the right to represent Tunisian publishers in Lebanon, and we immediately ordered a complete series of the books available from that source. Secondly, one of our colleagues» Dr. Sami A. Hanna, who was in Tunisia to explore the possi-bility of an Arabic Language program je4 nf ly MI I injuí, fc.a 4>y this Univer-sity ai^the Unlversity of Tunis, voluntariiy purchased a set of oíd Tunisian publications and a few Maghribin manuscripts. The Center and |
