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Johann Jacob Reiske
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Johann Jacob Reiske

يوحان ياكوب رايسكه

Notable figure 1716–1774 · Source: ʿAbd al-ʿAziz al-Humaid, Aʿmal al-mustashriqin al-ʿarabiyya fi al-muʿjam al-ʿarabi: dirasa wa-taqwim (PhD thesis, Imam Muhammad ibn Saud Islamic University, 1433 AH), vol. 1, p. 29 · Second source: Deutsche Nationalbibliothek, authority record (GND 100317278): Reiske, Johann Jacob, born 25 Dec. 1716 in Zörbig, died 14 Aug. 1774

Field: Poetry and text editing

Affiliation

Editor of Tarafa's Muʿallaqa with al-Nahhas (1742)

Biography

Born in Zörbig in Saxony, he learned Arabic at Leipzig and then Leiden. He edited Tarafa's Muʿallaqa with the commentary of Abu Jaʿfar al-Nahhas and a Latin translation (Leiden 1742), one of the first European works on pre-Islamic poetry. He had earlier published the twenty-sixth maqama of al-Hariri (Leipzig 1737), and later Ibn Zaydun's epistle in Arabic and Latin (Leipzig 1755), a German version of al-Tughraʾi's Lamiyya (1756) and selections from al-Mutanabbi (Leipzig 1765).