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Heinrich Ferdinand Wüstenfeld (1808–99) was a German Orientalist who specialized in Arab history and literature. He studied at the universities of Göttingen and Berlin, and he taught at Göttingen from 1842 until 1890. Genealogische Tabellen der arabischen Stämme und Familien (Genealogical tables of Arab tribes and families) consists of genealogical tables showing the two divisions of the Arabs, namely the Yemeni tribes (Tables 1‒22), known in traditional Arabic sources as the Qahtanites or the “Pure Arabs,” and the Ismaili tribes (Tables A‒Z), known as the Adnanites or ...