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Fuat Sezgin

فؤاد سزكين

Notable figure 1924–2018 · Source: Turkish Academy of Sciences (TÜBA), «TÜBA honorary member Prof. Fuat Sezgin has passed away» (2018) · Second source: Bibliothèque nationale de France, authority record: Sezgin, Fuat (24 October 1924 – 30 June 2018), historian of Arabic-Islamic science

From Türkiye; worked in Germany

Field: Bibliography of Arabic texts

Affiliation

Author of GAS, with volumes on poetry, lexicon, grammar

Biography

A pupil of Hellmut Ritter in Istanbul, he edited Abu ʿUbayda's Majaz al-Qurʾan (Cairo, 1954), then taught at the University of Frankfurt, where he founded the Institute for the History of Arabic-Islamic Science. His Geschichte des arabischen Schrifttums lists the manuscripts of Arabic writings and where they are kept; its second volume covers poetry (1975), the eighth lexicography (1982) and the ninth grammar (1984), and editors rely on it to find copies.