DOZY, REINHART PIETER ANNE ), Dutch Arabic scholar of French (Huguenot) origin, was born at Leyden. His monumental Histoire des Mussulmans d'Espagne, jusqu'a la conquete de l' Andalousie par les Almoravides, 7i1 (Leiden, 186i ; 2nd ed., ibid., 188i ; Eng. trans. 1913), a graphically written account of Moorish dominion in Spain, which shed new light on many obscure points, has remained the standard work on the subject. Dozy's Recherches sur l'histoire et la litterature de l'Espagne pendant le moyen age (Leiden, 2 vols., 1849; recast edns. in 186o and 1881) forms a trenchant addition to his Histoire. His Supplement aux dictionnaires arabes (Leiden, 18 7 7-1881, 2 vols.), a work full of research and learning, a store house of Arabic lore, followed, and to the same class belongs his Glossaire des mots espagnols et portugais, derives de l'Arabe, edited with Dr. W. H. Engelmann of Leipzig (Leiden, 1866; end ed., 1868). Dozy also edited many Arabic texts. Het Islamisme (Islamism; Haarlem, 1863, end ed., 1880; French translation) is a popular exposition of Mohammedanism, of a more controversial character; and De Israelieten to Mekka ("The Israelites at Mecca," Haarlem, 1864) became the subject of discussion in Jewish circles. Dozy died at Leiden, where he was a professor of history for thirty years, in May 1883.
See J. de Goeje, Biographie de Reinhart Dozy (1883) ; and bio graphical introduction to F. G. Stokes's English translation of Dozy's Histoire des Mussulmans d'Espagne, Islam 0913).