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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 taught at Göttingen from 1842 until 1890. Die Wohnsitze und Wanderungen der arabischen Stämme (The residences and migrations of the Arab tribes) is a German translation by Wüstenfeld of the preamble to Muʻjam mā istaʻjama min asmā’ al-bilād wa-al-mawāḍiʻ (The dictionary of corrupted names of regions and places), a geographical dictionary by Andalusian Muslim geographer, historian, and botanist Abu ʻUbayd al-Bakri ...