Heinrich Ferdinand Wüstenfeld (31 July 1808 – 8 February 1899) was a German orientalist, known as a literary historian of

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, born at Münden,

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. He studied theology and oriental languages at

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and

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. He taught at Göttingen, becoming a professor there (1842–90). He published many important Arabic texts and valuable works on Arabic history.

Writings and translations

* Navavi, Liber concinnitatis nominum (1832) * (1833–34) * (1835) * Ibn Challikan, Vitae illustrium virorum (1835–50) *Geschichte der Arabischen Ärzte und Naturforscher (1840) *Navavi, ''Tahdhib al-Asma'', Biographical dictionary of illustrious men (4 bd, 1842–47)
The biographical dictionary of illustrious men, chiefly at the beginning of Islamism; now first ed. from the collation of two mss. at Göttingen and Leiden (1842)
* Makrizi, Geschichte der Kopten (1846) *

Zakariya al-Qazwini Zakariyya' al-Qazwini ( , ar, أبو يحيى زكرياء بن محمد بن محمود القزويني), also known as Qazvini ( fa, قزوینی), born in Qazvin (Iran) and died 1283, was a Persian cosmographer and geographer of Arab anc ...

, ‘Aja'ib al-makhluqat, Zakarija Ben Muhammed Ben Mahmud el-Cazwini's Kosmographie (2 vols, 1849)
Ibn Coteiba, Handbuch der Geschichte
(1850) *Genealogische Tabellen der arabischen Stämme und Familien (1852)
Register zu den genealogischen Tabellen der arabischen Stämme und Familien
(1853) * Ibn Dorejd, ''Kitab ul-Ishtiqaq'', Genealogisch-etymologisches Handbuch (2 bd, 1854) *Vergleichungstabellen der mohammedanischen und christlichen Zeitrechnung (1854) *Ibn Hischam, Das Leben Mohammeds (4 bd. 1857-60)
Das Leben Muhammed's nach Muhammed Ibn Ishâk
(1858), Volume: v.01 pt.01
Das Leben Muhammed's nach Muhammed Ibn Ishâk
(1859), Volume: v.01 pt.02
Das Leben Muhammed's nach Muhammed Ibn Ishâk
(1860), Volume: 02 *Geschichte der Stadt Medina (1860) *Chroniken der Stadt Mekka (4 bd, 1857–61) * Jakut, Geographisches Wörterbuch (6 bd, 1866–73)
Bahrein und Jemàma. Nach Arabischen Geographen beschrieben
(1874) *Die Statthalter von Agypten (1876) * *Das Heerwesen der Muhammedaner (1880)
Geschichte der Fatimiden-Chalifen. Nach arabischen Quellen
(1881) reprinted 1976
Die Geschichtschreiber der Araber und ihre Werke.
(1882)
Die Çufiten in Süd-Arabien im XI. (XVII.) Jahrhundert
(1882) (1883) *Der Imam el-Schäfii und seine Anhänger (1889–91)

References

* {{DEFAULTSORT:Wustenfeld, Ferdinand 1808 births 1899 deaths Writers from Hanover German orientalists University of Göttingen faculty German male non-fiction writers