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Sezgin Online

A bio-bibliography for the Arabic literary tradition

Sezgin Online consists of volumes 1-9 of Fuat Sezgin's renowned Geschichte des arabischen Schrifttums (GAS), the largest and most modern bio-bibliography for the Arabic literary tradition in general and the history of science and technology in the Islamic world in particular.

Sezgin Online offers bio-bibliographical information about renowned figures (writers, poets, philosophers, physicians, scientists, linguists etc.) from the Islamic world in the following subjects:
• Qur’anic studies, law, mysticism (vol. 1)
• poetry in Arabic until the eleventh century CE (vol. 2)
• the history of Islamic medicine (vol. 3)
• chemistry (vol. 4)
• mathematics (vol. 5)
• astronomy (vol. 6)
• astrology (vol. 7)
• lexicography (vol. 8)
• grammar (vol. 9)

Sezgin Online complements Brockelmann Online and Brockelmann in English and is an indispensable research tool for Middle Eastern and Islamic studies.

Features and Benefits:
• Standard reference in the field.
• Largest and most modern bio-bibliography for the Arabic literary tradition and the history of science and technology in the Islamic world.
• The first and only online version of this standard reference.
• Includes content from 9 of the original volumes (4,959 pages total in print).
• Full-text searchable.

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"One cannot but marvel at the audacity of this project...a manual such as this does not need reviews. It has become an authority already and as such it will be unique for many years to come." - Kees Versteegh, in: Historiographia Linguistica, 1985
"Les volumes déjà publiés forcent le respect et l'admiration au point qu'on ne peut se permettre de formuler des critiques." - M. Arkoun. in: Arabica, Tome XXVII, 3
" ...instrument indispensable..." - Claude Gilliot, in: Arabica, 1987