Michael Jan de Goeje

Michael Jan de Goeje (born August 13, 1836, Dronrijp, Netherlands—died May 17, 1909, Leiden) was a Dutch scholar who edited many Arabic works, most important of which was the medieval history Annals of Tabari, 13 vol. (1879–1901). Attracted to Oriental languages during childhood, Goeje became proficient in Arabic. During his postdoctoral studies at the University of Oxford, he collated the Bodleian Library manuscripts of the important medieval Arabic geographer Idrīsī and published a part of...