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Tilman Seidensticker

تيلمان زايدنشتيكر

Notable figure b. 1955 · Source: Index Theologicus / RelBib, authority record: Seidensticker, Tilman 1955- · Second source: Bibliothèque nationale de France, authority record: Seidensticker, Tilman (1955-....)

Field: Lexicography

Affiliation

Arabist; Altarabisch »Herz« und sein Wortfeld (1992)

Biography

He taught Arabic at Tübingen and Giessen and became professor at Jena and then at Hamburg. He edited, translated and annotated the poems of al-Shamardal ibn Sharik (Wiesbaden, 1983) and studied the words for 'heart' in early Arabic and their semantic field in a book published in Wiesbaden in 1992. He has led projects cataloguing Arabic manuscripts in German libraries.