Dr. Wael Abu Hassan the Assistant Professor at the Allied Medical Sciences has published with Arndt Bussing, Peter F. Matthiessen, and Thomas Ostermann one of their original works on Spirituality, religiosity, and dealing with illness in the internationally reputed Saudi Medical Journal. The study was designed to investigate the impact of spirituality and religiosity (SpR) in Arabic patients with a Muslim background as compared to patients from Western Germany (Christians as well as non beleivers).