Dozy

Dozy, REINHART, a learned Orientalist, was born 21st February 1820, at Leyden, and studied there. In 1844 he obtained a post in the library, and in 1850 he was appointed extraordinary, and in 1857 ordinary, professor of History at Leyden. He died 29th April 1883. His Histoire des Musulmans d'Espagne (4 vols. Leyden, 1861) is a model of what a history should be. His earlier Recherches on Spain in the middle ages (1849; 3d ed. 1881) exposed the wilful corruptions of the monkish chroniclers, and destroyed many popular illusions based upon the Poem and Chronicle of the Cid. Other publications are the Historia Abbadiarum (1852), and editions of Al-Marrakushi, Ibn-Badru, Ibn-Adhari, Al-Makkari, and with De Goeje, of Edrisi (q.v.); a supplement to Arab dictionaries (2 vols. 1877-81); Het Islamisme (1863; French trans. 1879); De Israëliten te Mekka (1864); and a work (1884) on the religion of the Harranians.