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Adam Mez

آدم متز

Notable figure 1869–1917 · Source: Johann Fück, Tarikh harakat al-istishraq (Die arabischen Studien in Europa), trans. ʿUmar Lutfi al-ʿAlim, 2nd ed., Dar al-Madar al-Islami, Beirut 2001, p. 300–301 · Second source: TDV İslâm Ansiklopedisi, s.v. «Mez, Adam»

From Germany; worked in Switzerland

Field: Text editing

Affiliation

Editor of Hikayat Abi l-Qasim, with a glossary (1902)

Biography

Born in Freiburg in Germany, he took his doctorate at Strasbourg (1892) and became professor of Semitic languages at Basel. He edited Abu l-Mutahhar al-Azdi's Hikayat Abi l-Qasim al-Baghdadi in Arabic, with a long German introduction and a glossary (Heidelberg 1902), and wrote on the Arabic proverb (1904) and on secondary verbs in Arabic (1906). He is best known for Die Renaissance des Islams, published after his death (1922).