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Joseph Schacht

يوسف شاخت

Notable figure 1902–1969 · 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), pp. 114, 470 · Second source: Deutsche Biographie (GND 117091340): Schacht, Joseph (1902–1969), with the NDB article by Rainer Brunner

From Germany; worked in Egypt, the United Kingdom, the Netherlands and the United States

Field: Text editing

Affiliation

Editor of al-Khassaf's Kitab al-hiyal (1923)

Biography

Born in Ratibor, he studied at Breslau and Leipzig and taught at Freiburg, Königsberg and the Egyptian University in Cairo, then at Oxford, Leiden and Columbia. He edited many Arabic texts, among them the Kitab al-hiyal wa-l-makharij (1923), which he published in both its recensions; Bergsträsser held up his way of dividing a text and signposting its topics as a model. A former student of August Fischer, he took on the reading of Sahih Muslim for Fischer's historical dictionary.