Antoine Galland

Antoine Galland

male, deceased (1715)
islam, The Arabian Nights, TheThousandandOneNights, islamic, colbert, fantasy writer…The Book of One Thousand and One Nights, Arabian Nights
Antoine Galland (April 4, 1646 - February 17, 1715) was a French orientalist and archaeologist, most famous as the first European translator of the...
Edward William Lane

Edward William Lane

male, deceased (1876)
cambridge university, TheThousandandOneNights, Manners and Customs of the Modern Egyptian, Qur'an, Consumption, From hereford
Edward William Lane (September 17, 1801, Hereford, England-August 10, 1876, Worthing, Sussex) was a noted scholar of the Arabic language and Arabic...
Heinrich Leberecht Fleischer

Heinrich Leberecht Fleischer

male, deceased (1888)
quran, Abulfeda, Orientalist, theology, University of Leipzig, German…TheThousandandOneNights
Heinrich Leberecht Fleischer, was a German Orientalist. He was born at Schandau, Saxony. From 1819 to 1824, he studied theology and Oriental...
Zubayda Bint Ja`far

Zubayda Bint Ja`far

female, deceased (832)
caliph, abbasid, baghdad, medina, The Book of One Thousand and One Nights, mecca…TheThousandandOneNights
Zubayda bint Ja`far ibn Mansur (Arabic: زبيدة بنت جعفر بن المنصور was daughter of the Abbasid caliph Al-Mansur, and cousin of Harun al-Rashid (r.76...
Joseph Freiherr von Hammer-Purgstall

Joseph Freiherr von Hammer-Purgstall

male, deceased (1856)
Purgstall, councillor, countess, expedition, From Graz, French…TheThousandandOneNights
Joseph Freiherr von Hammer-Purgstall (June 9, 1774-November 23, 1856) was an Austrian orientalist. Born Joseph von Hammer in Graz, Styria, he...