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Bernhard Moritz

برنهارد موريتز

Notable figure 1859–1939 · 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), p. 102 · Second source: Bibliothèque nationale de France, authority record: Moritz, Bernhard (1859-1939)

From Germany; worked in Egypt

Field: Arabic script

Affiliation

Author of Arabic Palaeography (Cairo)

Biography

As director of the Khedivial Library in Cairo he published a collection of photographic plates of Arabic book hands from the first Islamic century onward, and wrote the article on Arabic writing in the Encyclopaedia of Islam. The thesis discusses it under palaeography as an aid to correcting texts, reporting Bergsträsser's view that it was not yet sufficient.