German scholars were very interested in the Middle East in part because of ridiculous theories about their own racial origins in the 19th Century. The standard Arabic-English dictionary is actually a translation of the Hans Wehr Arabic-German dictionary.
German scholars were very interested in the Middle East in part because of ridiculous theories about their own racial origins in the 19th Century. The standard Arabic-English dictionary is actually a translation of the Hans Wehr Arabic-German dictionary.