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REINHART PIETER ANNE DOZY (182o-1883)

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Originally appearing in Volume V08, Page 463 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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REINHART PIETER See also:ANNE See also:DOZY (182o-1883)  , Dutch Arabic See also:scholar of See also:French (Huguenot) origin, was See also:born at See also:Leiden in See also:February 1820 . The Dozys, like so many other contemporary See also:hero in The See also:Memoirs of See also:Sherlock See also:Holmes (1893), The See also:Hound of the Baskervilles (1902), and The Return of Sherlock Holmes (1905) . His later books include numerous novels; plays, The See also:Story of See also:Waterloo (1894), in which See also:Sir See also:Henry See also:Irving played the leading See also:part, The Fires of See also:Fate (1909), and The See also:House of Temperley (1909); and two books in See also:defence of the See also:British See also:army in See also:South See also:Africa—The See also:Great See also:Boer See also:War (1900) and The War in South Africa; its Causes and Conduct (1902) . Dr Conan See also:Doyle served as registrar of the Langman See also:Field See also:Hospital in South Africa, and was knighted French families, emigrated to the See also:Low Countries after the revocation of the See also:edict of See also:Nantes, but some of the former appear to have settled in See also:Holland as See also:early as 1647 . See also:Dozy studied at the university of Leiden, obtained the degree of See also:doctor in 1844, was appointed an extraordinary See also:professor of See also:history in r85o, and professor in 1857 . The first results of his extensive studies in See also:Oriental literature, Arabic See also:language and history, manifested themselves in 1847, when he published Al-Marrakushi's History of the See also:Almohades (Leiden, end ed., 1881), which, together with his Scriptorum Arabum loci de A bbaditis (Leiden, 1846–1863, 3 vols.), his See also:editions of See also:Ibn-Adhari's History of Africa and See also:Spain (Leiden, 1848–1852, 3 vols.), of Ibn-Badrun's See also:Historical Commentary on the Poem of Ibn-Abdun (Leiden, 1848), and his Dictionnaire detainee' See also:des noms des vetements chez See also:les Arabes (See also:Amsterdam, 1845)—a See also:work crowned by the Dutch See also:Institute—stamped Dozy as one of the most learned and See also:critical Arabic scholars of his See also:day . But his real fame as a historian mainly rests on his great work, Histoire des Mussulmans d'Espagne, jusqu'd la conquete de t' Andalousie See also:par les See also:Almoravides, 711–1110 (Leiden, 1861; end ed., ibid., 1881); a graphically written See also:account of Moorish dominion in Spain, which See also:shed new See also:light on many obscure points, and has remained the See also:standard work on the subject . Dozy's Recherches sur l' histoire et la litterature de l'Espagne See also:pendant le moyen dge (Leiden, 2 vols., 1849; 2nd and 3rd ed., completely recast, 186o and 1881) See also:form a needful and wonderfully trenchant supplement to his Histoire des Mussulmans, in which he mercilessly exposes the many tricks and falsehoods of the monks in their See also:chronicles, and effectively demolishes a See also:good part of the See also:Cid legends . As an Arabic scholar Dozy stands well-nigh unsurpassed in his Supplement aux dictionnaires arabes (Leiden, 1877-1881, 2 vols.), a work full of See also:research and learning, a storehouse of Arabic See also:lore . To the same class belongs his Glossaire des mots espagnols et portugais, derives de l'Arabe, edited with Dr W . H . Engelmann of See also:Leipzig (Leiden, 1866; 2nd ed., 1868), and a similar See also:list of Dutch words derived from the Arabic .

Dozy also edited Al Makkari's Analectes sur l'histoire et la litterature des Arabes d'Espagne (Leiden, 1855–1861, 2 vols.), and, in See also:

conjunction with his friend and worthy successor, Professor De See also:Goeje, at Leiden, See also:Idrisi's Description de l'Afrique et de l'Espagne (1866), also the Calendrier de Cordoue de l'annee 961; texte arabe et ancienne traduction latine (Leiden, 1874) . Het Islamisme (Islamism; See also:Haarlem, 1863, 2nd ed., 188o; French See also:translation) is a popular exposition of Mahommedanism, of a more controversial See also:character; and De Israelieten to Mekka (" The Israelites at See also:Mecca," Haarlem, 1864) became the subject of a rather heated discussion in Jewish circles . Dozy died at Leiden in May 1883 . (H .

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