Reinhart Pieter Anne Dozy (February, 1820 - May, 1883), Dutch Arabic scholar of French (Huguenot) origin, was born at Leiden. February is the second month of the year in the Gregorian Calendar. ... 1820 was a leap year starting on Saturday (see link for calendar). ... This article is about the month of May. ... 1883 was a common year starting on Monday (see link for calendar). ... The term the Middle East sometimes applies to the peninsula alone, but usually refers to the Arabian Peninsula plus the Levant, Mesopotamia, and Iran. ... In the 16th and 17th centuries, the name of Huguenots came to apply to members of the Protestant Reformed Church of France. ... Leiden (in English also, but now rarely, Leyden) is a city and municipality in South Holland, The Netherlands. ...

The Dozys, like so many other contemporary French families, emigrated to the Low Countries after the revocation of the edict of Nantes, but some of the former appear to have settled in the Netherlands as early as 1647. Dozy studied at the university of Leiden, obtained the degree of doctor in 1844, was appointed an extraordinary professor of history in 1850, and professor in 1857. The Edict of Nantes was issued on April 13, 1598 by Henry IV of France to grant French Protestants (also known as Huguenots) substantial rights in a Catholic nation. ... Events March 14 - Thirty Years War: Bavaria, Cologne, France and Sweden sign the Truce of Ulm. ... Leiden University in the city of Leiden, is the oldest still existing and most famous university in the Netherlands. ... 1844 was a leap year starting on Monday (see link for calendar). ... 1850 was a common year starting on Tuesday (see link for calendar). ... 1857 was a common year starting on Thursday (see link for calendar). ...

The first results of his extensive studies in Oriental literature, Arabic language and history, manifested themselves in 1847, when he published Al-Marrakushi's History of the Almohades (Leiden, 2nd ed., 1881), which, together with his Scriptorum Arabum loci de Abbaditis (Leiden, 1846-1863, 3 vols.), his editions of Ibn-Adhari's History of Africa and Spain (Leiden, 1848-1852, 3 vols.), of Ibn-Badrun's Historical Commentary on the Poem of Ibn-Abdun (Leiden, 1848), and his Dictionnaire détaillé des noms des vétements chez les Arabes (Amsterdam, 1845)--a work crowned by the Dutch Institute--stamped Dozy as one of the most learned and critical Arabic scholars of his day. Arabic (العربية) is a Semitic language, closely related to Hebrew and Aramaic. ... The Almohad Dynasty (From Arabic الموحدون al-Muwahhidun, i. ... 1881 was a common year starting on Saturday (see link for calendar). ... 1846 was a common year starting on Thursday (see link for calendar). ... 1863 is a common year starting on Thursday. ...

But his real fame as a historian mainly rests on his great work, Histoire des Mussulmans d'Espagne, jusqu'à la conquéte de l'Andalousie par les Almoravides, 711-1110 (Leiden, 1861; 2nd ed., ibid., 1881); a graphically written account of Moorish dominion in Spain, which shed new light on many obscure points, and has remained the standard work on the subject. Dozy's Recherches sur l'histoire et la littérature de l'Espagne pendant le moyen âge (Leiden, 2 vols., 1849; 2nd and 3rd ed., completely recast, 1860 and 1881) form a needful and wonderfully trenchant supplement to his Histoire des Mussalmans, in which he mercilessly exposes the many tricks and falsehoods of the monks in their chronicles, and effectively demolishes a good part of the Cid legends. See also: phone number 711. ... Events December 4 - First Crusade: The Crusaders conquer Sidon. ... Moor may refer to: A high altitude form of heathland habitat widespread in northern Britain; see heath (habitat). ... CID can stand for more than one thing. ...

As an Arabic scholar Dozy stands well-nigh unsurpassed in his Supplement aux dictionnaires arabes (Leiden, 1877-1881, 2 vols.), a work full of research and learning, a storehouse of Arabic lore. To the same class belongs his Glossaire des mats espagnols et portugois, dérivés de l'Arabe, edited with Dr WH Engelmann of Leipzig (Leiden, 1866; 2nd ed., 1868), and a similar list of Dutch words derived from the Arabic.

Dozy also edited al-Maqqari's Analectes sur l'histoire et la littérature des Arabes d'Espagne (Leiden, 1855-1861, 2 vols.), and, in conjunction with his friend and worthy successor, Professor De Goeje, at Leiden, al-Idrisi's Description de l'Afrique et de l'Espagne (1866), also the Calendrier de Cordoue de l'année 961; texte arabe et ancienne traduction latine (Leiden, 1874). Het Islamisme (Islamism; Haarlem, 1863, 2nd ed., 1880; French translation) is a popular exposition of Mahommedanism, of a more controversial character; and De Israelieten de Mekka ("The Israelites at Mecca," Haarlem, 1864) became the subject of a rather heated discussion in Jewish circles. Abu l-Abbas Ahmad ibn Mahommed al-Maqqari (or Makkari) (c. ... Michael Jan de Goeje (1836 - May 17, 1909), Dutch orientalist, was born in Friesland. ... Al_Idrisis world map from 1154. ... Islam  listen (Arabic: al-islām) the submission to God is a monotheistic faith, one of the Abrahamic religions, and the worlds second largest religion. ... The word Jew (Hebrew: יהודי) is used in a wide number of ways, but generally refers to a follower of the Jewish faith, a child of a Jewish mother, or someone of Jewish descent with a connection to Jewish culture or ethnicity and often a combination of these attributes. ...

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• This entry incorporates public domain text originally from the 1911 Encyclopaedia Britannica.