Remke Kruk

Remke Kruk (* 1942 in Apeldoorn ) is a Dutch Arabist .

Life

From 1960 to 1966, Kruk studied Arabic and New Persian language and literature at the University of Leiden . After graduating, she spent the academic year 1966–1967 at Cairo University . After that she was a research assistant until 1969, then a lecturer at the University of Leiden, from 1969 a lecturer, then an associate professor at the University of Utrecht . In 1978 she was awarded her doctorate at the University of Amsterdam with a critical edition of the Arabic version of the Aristotelian text On the Parts of Animals in Books XI-XIV of Kitâb al-Hayawân , which was created by HJ Drossaart Lulofs . In 1990 she was appointed full professor of Arabic studies at the University of Leiden. In 2007 she retired. Since then she has been an affiliate member of the Leiden Institute for Area Studies . She has held visiting professorships at Harvard University and New York University . In 2000 she was accepted into the Koninklijke Nederlandse Akademie van Wetenschappen .

Together with Hans Daiber, Kruk is the editor of Aristoteles Semitico-Latinus and is a member of the editorial or advisory bodies of the Encyclopaedia of Islam and the journals Oriens and Studia graeco-arabica .

Research focuses on the Greco-Arabic tradition of natural philosophy and -wissenschaft and the popular Arab narrative tradition, especially the folk epic. Kruk has also made a name for herself as a translator of classic Arabic literature into Dutch .

Arnoud Vrolijk, Jan P. Hogendijk (Eds.): O ye Gentlemen. Arabic Studies on Science and Literary Culture. In Honor of Remke Kruk. Brill, Leiden / Boston 2007, ISBN 978-90-04-15794-1 .