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Reinhart Pieter Anne Dozy
1820–1883
Best remembered for his vivid history of Muslim Spain, this Dutch Arabist brought fresh attention to Arabic sources at a time when many were still little used in European scholarship. His work ranged from medieval Iberia to Arabic lexicography, and it stayed influential long after his lifetime.
4 Audiobooks
Histoire des Musulmans d'Espagne, t. 1/4 jusqu'à la conquête de l'Andalouisie par les Almoravides (711-1100)
by Reinhart Pieter Anne Dozy
Histoire des Musulmans d'Espagne, t. 3/4 jusqu'à la conquête de l'Andalouisie par les Almoravides (711-1100)
by Reinhart Pieter Anne Dozy
Histoire des Musulmans d'Espagne, t. 4/4 jusqu'à la conquête de l'Andalouisie par les Almoravides (711-1100)
by Reinhart Pieter Anne Dozy
Histoire des Musulmans d'Espagne, t. 2/4 jusqu'a la conquête de l'Andalouisie par les Almoravides (711-110)
by Reinhart Pieter Anne Dozy
About the author
Born in Leiden in 1820, he became one of the Netherlands' best-known nineteenth-century scholars of Arabic language, history, and literature. Of French Huguenot family background, he studied at Leiden and built his career there, developing a reputation for deep work in Arabic philology and the history of al-Andalus.
He is especially associated with his major history of Muslim Spain, Histoire des musulmans d'Espagne, later known in English as Spanish Islam. He also worked on Arabic dictionaries and manuscripts, helping widen access to important source material for other scholars.
He spent much of his professional life at Leiden University as a professor, and he died in Leiden in 1883. Readers coming to his work today will find a scholar remembered above all for combining close language study with a strong sense of historical storytelling.