DOZY, REINHART, one of the most learned orientalists of the present day, was b. 21st Feb., 1820, at Leyden. He belongs to a family of French origin, which settled in Holland after the revocation of the edict of Nantes. He studied at the university of his native town, and devoted himself especially to oriental studies. In 1850, he was appointed extraordinary, and, in 1857, ordinary professor of history at Leyden. Besides his writings in the Journal Asiatigue and other periodicals, D. has published Dictionnaire detaille des Noms des Vetements chez les Arabes (Amst. 1845); Historia Abbadidarum (Ley den, 1846-52); and editions of Abdo'l W6hid al Marrekoshi's History of the Almohades (1847); of Ibn-Badrun's Historical Commentary an the Poem of Ibn-Abdun (1848), with introduction, notes, glossary, and index, and of Ibn-Adhari's History of Africa and Spain (1848-52). In 1849, appeared his masterly performance, Recherches sur l'Histoire politique
et litteraire de l'Espagne pendant is doyen Age. A second edition, enlarged and com pletely recast, was published in 1860. In this work, D. has exposed the gross and will ful corruptions of the monkish chroniclers, who persisted in falsifying history for the benefit of Christianity, and who could form no more rational idea of the Moors than that they were "devils," or abetted by the devil, and sent to torment the Spaniards because of their sins. Other valuable productions of D. are his Al-Makkari, Analectes stir l' His Mire et in litterature des Arabes d'Espagne (Leyd. 1855-61); Ilistoire des Musulmans d'Es pagne jusgu'd la Conguete de l' Andalousie par les Almoravides (Leyd. 1861); Het Islamisme (Hari. 1863); and Die Israeliten zu Mekka (1864).