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Cornelis van Waenen

كورنيليس فان وينن

Notable figure 1732–1806 · Source: Sententiae Ali ebn Abi Talebi, Qatar National Library; Dirasat Istishraqiyya, no. 16, Fayzi and Sadiq, p. 164 · Second source: Waenen, Cornelis van, Biographisch woordenboek der Nederlanden, DBNL

Field: Text editing

Affiliation

Edited the Sayings of ʿAli in Arabic and Latin (Oxford 1806)

Biography

A Dutch pastor at Noordeloos (1760) and then Maassluis (1764). He copied the Sayings of ʿAli ibn Abi Talib from the Leiden manuscript, translated them into Latin and annotated them. They appeared at Oxford (1806) with Arabic and Latin on facing pages, with selections from al-Amidi's Ghurar al-hikam and al-Maydani's Majmaʿ al-amthal.