Hartwig Derenbourg was an Orientalist

Oriental studies

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He was born in Paris

Paris

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, son of scholar Joseph Derenbourg

Joseph Derenbourg

Joseph Derenbourg, or Joseph Naftali Derenburg was a Franco-German orientalist.He was born in Mainz , as a youngest son of the lawyer Jacob Derenburg....

. He was educated at Göttingen

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 and Leipzig

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. Subsequently he studied Arabic

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 at the Ecole des Langues Orientales

Institut national des langues et civilisations orientales

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. In 1879 he was appointed professor of Arabic, and in 1886 professor of Muslim Religion, at the École des Hautes Études in Paris. He collaborated with his father in the great edition of Saadia

Saadia

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 and the edition of Abu al-Walid

Averroes

' , better known just as Ibn Rushd , and in European literature as Averroes , was a Muslim polymath; a master of Aristotelian philosophy, Islamic philosophy, Islamic theology, Maliki law and jurisprudence, logic, psychology, politics, Arabic music theory, and the sciences of medicine, astronomy,...

, and also produced a number of important editions of other Arabic writers. Among these are:

• Le dîwân de Nâbiga Dhobyânî (Paris, 1869)
• Le Livre de Sibawaih (2 vols., Paris, 1881-1889)
• Chrestomathie élémentaire de l'Arabe littéral (in collaboration with Spiro, 1885; 2nd ed., 1892)
• Ousama ibn Mounkidh
  Usamah ibn Munqidh
  Majd ad-Dīn Usāma ibn Murshid ibn ʿAlī ibn Munqidh al-Kināni was a medieval Muslim poet, author, faris , and diplomat from the Banu Munqidh dynasty of Shaizar in northern Syria...
  
  , un émir syrien (1889)
• Ousama ibn Mounkidh, preface du livre du baton (with trans., 1887)
• Al-Fakhri (1895)
• Oumdra du Gimen (1897)
• Les manuscrits arabes de l’Escorial
  Escurial
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  (vol. 1, 1884; vols. 2 and 3, 1903).

External links

• Ousama ibn Mounkidh, un émir syrien (at Gallica