Ferdinand Wüstenfeld

Heinrich Ferdinand Wüstenfeld (31 July 1808 – 8 February 1899) was a German orientalist, known as a literary historian of Arabic literature, born at Münden, Hanover.

Heinrich Ferdinand Wüstenfeld

He studied theology and oriental languages at Göttingen and Berlin. He taught at Göttingen, becoming a professor there (1842–90).[1] He published many important Arabic texts and valuable works on Arabic history.

Writings and translations
  • Navavi, Liber concinnitatis nominum (1832)
  • Dahabi, liber classium virorum qui karani et traditionum cognitione excellerunt (1833–34)
  • Abulfeda, Tabulse quoedam geographica? (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)
  • Makrizi, Geschichte der Kopten (1846)
  • Zakariya al-Qazwini, ‘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)
  • 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)
  • Qalqashandī, Aḥmad ibn ʻAlī (1879). Die Geographie und Verwaltung von Ägypten. Translated by Ferdinand Wüstenfeld.
  • 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)
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References
  1. "Bahrain and Jemama". World Digital Library. 2011-10-17. Retrieved 2014-06-22.
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