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A paperback edition of a classic work which provides a key to the highly diverse and far from homogenous corpus that constitutes the canonic and most authoritative texts of Islamic tradition, and a source of information on the history of ideas in the formative period of Islam.
'...incomparable outil de travail, lequel, dans l'univers spécialisé de l'islamologie, trouve une place de choix…' Constant Hamès, Arch. Sci. Soc. des Rels., 1993. '...diese Taschenbuchausgabe [ist] sehr zweckmäßig und wird sicher zahlreiche Anhänger finden.' I.S., Zeitschrift der Deutschen Morgenländischen Gesellschaft, 1995. 'In jedem Falle ist das "marktgerechte" Angebot einer erschwinglichen Ausgabe der Concordance ein begrüßenswertes Unterfangen.' Stefan Leder, Zeitschrift für Geschichte der Arabisch-Islamischen Wissenschaften, 1994. Reviews of the first edition: 'Professor Wensinck has put the whole world of Arabian scholarship, both East and West, in his debt.' Alfred Guillaume, The Royal Asiatic Society. '...monumentale...mine précieuse…' G. Ryckmans, Le Muséon, 1934. '...unentbehrliches Hilfsmittel…' Johann Fück, Olz, 1934. '...unverzichtbaren Hilfsmittel und Nachschlagewerk der Islamwissenschaft…' I.S. Zeitschrift der Deutschen Morgenländischen Gesellschaft, 1995.
Arent Jan Wensinck (1882-1939) studied Semitic languages in Leiden and wrote a doctoral dissertation on ‘Muḥammad and the Jews in Medina’ with Christiaan Snouck Hurgronje. After having taught Hebrew at grammar schools and Classical Syriac and Aramaic at Utrecht University, Wensinck was appointed to the chair of Hebrew at Leiden University in 1912. Fifteen years later, he succeeded his former teacher Snouck Hurgronje as head of the Arabic department in Leiden, a position he held until his death in 1939. In addition to his work on the Concordance, his magnum opus, Wensinck was one of the editors-in-chief of the first edition of the Encyclopaedia of Islam. From 1932, Johan Peter Mari Mensing (1901-1951) assisted Wensinck with the publication of the Concordance and continued working on it after Wensinck’s death. After having finished his doctoral dissertation on aspects of Hanbali law in 1936, Mensing taught modern Arabic as a private tutor in Leiden. From 1948 until his death in 1951, Mensing was an endowed professor of Muslim institutions and Arabic at Utrecht University.