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Arent Jan Wensinck
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Arent Jan Wensinck

آرنت يان فنسنك

Notable figure 1882–1939 · Source: Najib al-Aqiqi, al-Mustashriqun, 3rd ed. (Cairo: Dar al-Maʿarif, 1964), vol. 2, p. 667; Yahya Murad, Muʿjam asmaʾ al-mustashriqin (Beirut: Dar al-Kutub al-ʿIlmiyya, 2004), p. 1115 · Second source: Deutsche Nationalbibliothek, GND authority record: Wensinck, A. J. (1882-1939)

Field: Lexicography

Affiliation

Lexicographer; author of the Concordance of Hadith

Biography

He studied Semitic languages at Leiden and taught Hebrew there, then succeeded Snouck Hurgronje in the chair of Arabic (1927–1939). He compiled the Handbook of Early Muhammadan Tradition (Leiden 1927) and launched the Concordance et indices de la tradition musulmane, which arranges the words of the six canonical collections, al-Darimi, the Muwattaʾ and Ahmad's Musnad by root; it appeared in seven volumes (Leiden 1936–1969), completed by his colleagues after his death.