Netherlands

Arent Jan Wensinck Notable figure

1882–1939

Lexicography

Lexicographer; author of the Concordance of Hadith

Adriaan Reland Notable figure

1676–1718

Text editing

Professor of Arabic, Utrecht; edited al-Zarnuji (1709)

Albert Schultens Notable figure

1686–1750

Semitic philology

Leiden professor of Arabic; re-edited Erpenius's grammar

Everard Scheid Notable figure

1742–1794

Lexicography

Lexicographer; edited part of al-Jawhari's Sihah (1774)

Pieter Antonie van der Lith Notable figure

1844–1901

Text editing

Editor of Buzurg ibn Shahriyar's ʿAjaʾib al-Hind (1883–1886)

Pieter de Jong Notable figure

1832–1890

Text editing

Editor of al-Thaʿalibi's Lataʾif al-maʿarif (1867)

Pieter Johannes Veth Notable figure

1814–1895

Text editing

Editor of al-Suyuti's Lubb al-lubab (1840–1851)

Taco Roorda Notable figure

1801–1874

Grammar and morphology

Grammarian; Latin Arabic grammar with a glossary (1835)

Thomas Erpenius Notable figure

1584–1624

Grammar

Grammarian; author of the Grammatica Arabica (1613)

Theodoor Willem Jan Juynboll Notable figure

1802–1861

Text editing

Editor of al-Mutanabbi's poems on Sayf al-Dawla (1840)

J. P. M. Mensing Notable figure

1901–1951

Lexicography

Co-editor of the Concordance of the hadith

Gerardus Kuypers Notable figure

1722–1798

Text editing

Editor of the poems of ʿAli, with Latin version (1745)

Geert Jan van Gelder Notable figure

b. 1947

Literature and poetry

Classical criticism and poetry; Beyond the Line (1982)

Worked in the United Kingdom

Gerlof van Vloten Notable figure

1866–1903

Literature and text editing

Editor of al-Jahiz's al-Bukhalaʾ (Leiden 1900)

J. T. P. de Bruijn Notable figure

1931–2023

Lexicography

An editor of the Concordance of Hadith vocabulary

Rudolf E. de Jong Notable figure

1958–2024

Phonetics and dialects

Dialectologist; Bedouin dialects of Sinai (2000, 2011)

Worked in Egypt

Richard van Leeuwen Notable figure

b. 1955

Translation

Translator of the Thousand and One Nights into Dutch

Reinhart Dozy Notable figure

1820–1883

Lexicography

Lexicographer; author of the Supplément (1877–1881)

Seeger A. Bonebakker Notable figure

1923–2005

Rhetoric and poetics

Editor of Qudama ibn Jaʿfar's Naqd al-shiʿr (1956)

Worked in the United States

A. J. W. (Guus) Huisman Notable figure

1917–1983

Manuscript cataloguing

Author of Les manuscrits arabes dans le monde (1967)

Frederik (Fred) Leemhuis Notable figure

1942–2021

Grammar and morphology

Grammarian; The D and H Stems in Koranic Arabic (1977)

Worked in Egypt

Willem Herman Engelmann Notable figure

1836–1868

Lexicography

Lexicographer; glossary of Spanish words of Arabic origin

Christiaan Snouck Hurgronje Notable figure

1857–1936

Phonetics and dialects

Author of Mekkanische Sprichwörter (1886), Meccan proverbs

Worked in Indonesia

Cornelis van Arendonk Notable figure

1881–1946

Lexicography

Contributor to the Concordance of the Hadith

Cornelis van Waenen Notable figure

1732–1806

Text editing

Edited the Sayings of ʿAli in Arabic and Latin (Oxford 1806)

Pieter Sjoerd van Koningsveld Notable figure

1943–2021

Lexicography

Editor of the Latin-Arabic glossary of Leiden Library (1976)

Kees Versteegh Notable figure

b. 1947

Grammar and linguistics

Linguist; author of The Arabic Language (Edinburgh 1997)

Martijn Theodoor Houtsma Notable figure

1851–1943

Text editing

Editor of Ibn al-Anbari's Kitab al-addad (1881)

Mia Irene Gerhardt Notable figure

1918–1988

Literature

Author of The Art of Story-Telling, on the Nights (1963)

Michael Jan de Goeje Notable figure

1836–1909

Text editing and grammar

Editor of Ibn Qutayba's al-Shiʿr wa-l-shuʿaraʾ (1904)

Hendrik Arent Hamaker Notable figure

1789–1835

Text editing

Editor of the conquest of Egypt ascribed to al-Waqidi (1825)

Hendrik Albert Schultens Notable figure

1749–1793

Text editing

Editor of Arabic proverbs, from al-Maydani's collection

Hendrik Engelinus Weijers Notable figure

1805–1844

Text editing

Leiden professor; edited Ibn Khaqan on Ibn Zaydun

W. P. de Haas Notable figure

Lexicography

Co-editor of the Hadith Concordance, vols 3–4

Jan Brugman Notable figure

1923–2004

Literature

Leiden professor of Arabic; modern Egyptian literature

Worked in Egypt

Jan Theunisz (Johannes Antonides) Notable figure

1569–1637

Lexicography

Dutch printer who studied Arabic; left word lists in ms

Jan Hoogland Notable figure

b. 1957

Lexicography

Lexicographer; Arabic–Dutch dictionary (2003)

Jacobus Golius Notable figure

1596–1667

Lexicography

Lexicographer; author of the Lexicon Arabico-Latinum (1653)

Johannes Hendrik Kramers Notable figure

1891–1951

Teaching Arabic

Professor of Arabic at Leiden; editor of Ibn Hawqal