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Adriaan Reland
Image: Pieter Schenk (I), 1703 (Rijksmuseum, RP-P-1905-255), CC0 · Wikimedia Commons

Adriaan Reland

أدريان ريلاند

Notable figure 1676–1718 · Source: Najib al-Aqiqi, al-Mustashriqun, 3rd ed. (Cairo: Dar al-Maʿarif, 1964), vol. 2, p. 655; Yahya Murad, Muʿjam asmaʾ al-mustashriqin, p. 639 · Second source: Bibliothèque nationale de France, authority record: Reeland, Adriaan (1676-1718)

Field: Text editing

Affiliation

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

Biography

He studied at Utrecht and became its professor of Arabic. He edited al-Zarnuji's Taʿlim al-mutaʿallim (Utrecht, 1709), prefacing it with a list of every Arabic text printed in Europe up to his time. He also wrote a book on Muslim belief (Utrecht, 1705) and another on the geography and antiquities of Palestine (Utrecht, 1714).