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W. P. de Haas

و. ب. دي هاس

Notable figure · 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. 242, 246 · Second source: Bibliotheek.nl catalogue record: A. J. Wensinck et al., Concordance et indices de la tradition musulmane, vol. 4 (Leiden: Brill, 1962): «continués par W.P. de Haas … [et al.]»

Field: Lexicography

Affiliation

Co-editor of the Hadith Concordance, vols 3–4

Biography

A Dutchman who worked on the Concordance et indices de la tradition musulmane, the concordance of hadith begun by Wensinck in Leiden. With J. B. van Loon he carried the work from Mensing's departure for Libya until 1954, with Muhammad Fuʾad ʿAbd al-Baqi in Cairo reading the final proofs; volume 3 appeared in 1955 and volume 4 in 1962, whose title page names him among those who continued it, after which others took his place.