Here is a link to my guide for Islamic Studies graduate students on how to utilize Fuat Sezgin's essential Geschichte des Arabischen Schrifttums to improve one's German reading comprehension while also finding relevant Arabic manuscripts for one's research. I hope it proves useful for fellow students you are trying to meet their department's language requirements without putting their research on hold.
Thank you to Nadirah Mansour and Heather Hughes at Hazine.info for publishing it on their wonderful site dedicated to doing research in the Middle East and beyond.
And here's the twitter thread that inspired the Hazine article:
Thread: Rather random advice for (grad) students in Near Eastern Studies, especially those focusing on early Islamic world, who need to gain reading competency in German 👇— Rich Heffron (أبو جُود) (@richheffron) October 17, 2018
