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- al-Andalus & Europe
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Summary
Ferdinand Wüstenfeld edited al-Bakri's Mu'jam ma sta'jam "from the manuscripts of Leiden, Cambridge, London and Milan"; the first volume of his edition appeared in Göttingen and Paris in 1876. 1
His work on the edition
In his German preface he says he gathered what the manuscripts contain about al-Bakri, whose life and works Dozy and then de Slane had already compiled from the Arabic biographers. 2 He tells how, staying for some weeks as Dozy's guest in Leiden, he was allowed to take the Leiden manuscript home to copy it for himself, finishing the first part at Christmas and the second "in the troubled days of the year 1848", and how he went on correcting the text until, at the start of 1865, he obtained the Cambridge manuscript through his pupil Sidgwick of Trinity College. 3 He notes that he based his study of the dwellings and migrations of the Arab tribes on al-Bakri's introduction, which he translated in full there. 3
Connections
- Lived in
- Paris
- Wrote about
- Mu'jam ma Ista'jam (al-Bakri's geographical dictionary)
People and things also explored
Abbas Kiarostami· Abdel Khalek Sarwat Pasha· eL Seed· Essad Toptani· Gilles Kepel· Henri Lavoix· Henry Corbin· Moktar Ould Daddah
Sources
- Mu'jam ma sta'jam (al-Bakri), ed. Wustenfeld 1876 , p.5
- Mu'jam ma sta'jam (al-Bakri), ed. Wustenfeld 1876 , p.7
- Mu'jam ma sta'jam (al-Bakri), ed. Wustenfeld 1876 , p.9
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islam.museum contributors. “Ferdinand Wüstenfeld”. islam.museum, https://islam.museum/en/person/ferdinand-wustenfeld/. CC BY-SA 4.0. Last updated 2026-11-09.
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