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Shelomo Dov Goitein

شلومو دوف غويتاين

Notable figure 1900–1985 · Source: Obituary: Shelomo Dov Goitein, MESA Bulletin 19 (1985), Cambridge University Press · Second source: Bibliothèque nationale de France, authority record: Goitein, Shelomoh Dov (1900-1985)

From Germany; worked in Palestine and the United States

Field: Text editing

Affiliation

Edited Baladhuri's Ansab V; Yemeni Arabic proverbs

Biography

Born in Bavaria, he taught at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, in Palestine (1928–57), then took the chair of Arabic Studies at Pennsylvania (1957). He edited the fifth volume of al-Baladhuri's Ansab al-ashraf (1936) from a unique manuscript, collected proverbs and sayings in Jemenica (1934), published Habshush's Ruʾyat al-Yaman in Sanʿani Arabic (1940), wrote on the dialect of Lower Yemen, and compiled a teaching anthology of modern Arabic literature.