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J. T. P. de Bruijn

دي بروين

Notable figure 1931–2023 · 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. 242 · Second source: Leiden University, In memoriam Prof. Dr. J.T.P. de Bruijn (1931-2023)

Field: Lexicography

Affiliation

An editor of the Concordance of Hadith vocabulary

Biography

He studied Semitic languages at Leiden, where he later held the chair of Modern Persian until 1995. As a young scholar he was one of the editors of the Concordance et indices de la tradition musulmane: he joined the work after de Haas and van Loon, and the fourth volume appeared in 1962 under the three of them, with the help of Muhammad Fuʾad ʿAbd al-Baqi.