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Martijn Theodoor Houtsma
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Martijn Theodoor Houtsma

مارتين تيودور هوتسما

Notable figure 1851–1943 · Source: Najib al-Aqiqi, al-Mustashriqun, 3rd ed. (Cairo: Dar al-Maʿarif, 1964), vol. 2, p. 669; Yahya Murad, Muʿjam asmaʾ al-mustashriqin, p. 1083 · Second source: Bibliothèque nationale de France, authority record: Houtsma, Martijn Theodoor (1851-1943)

Field: Text editing

Affiliation

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

Biography

He studied Arabic, Persian and Turkish and taught them at Utrecht, and was a member of the Arab Academy of Damascus. He edited al-Akhtal's ode in praise of the Umayyads with a Latin translation (Leiden 1878), Ibn al-Anbari's Kitab al-addad (1881) and al-Yaʿqubi's history in two volumes (1883), and was chief editor of the first edition of the Encyclopaedia of Islam.