Adriaan Reland (also known as Adriaen Reeland/Reelant, Hadrianus Relandus) (17 July 1676 – 5 February 1718[1]) was a noted Dutch Orientalist scholar, cartographer and philologist.[2] Even though he never left the Netherlands,[3][4] he made significant contributions to Middle Eastern and Asian linguistics and cartography, including Persia, Japan and Palestine during the biblical ages ( the Holy Land ).[5]
- ^ John Gorton, A General Biographical Dictionary, 1838, Whittaker & Co.
- ^ Power And Religion in Baroque Rome: Barberini Cultural Policies, P. J. A. N. Rietbergen, p.321
- ^ The Orient in Utrecht: Adriaan Reland (1676-1718), Arabist, Cartographer, Antiquarian and Scholar of Comparative Religion, Brill, 2021-01-01, ISBN 978-90-04-46217-5, retrieved 2023-11-04
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"Obviously, knowledge of Biblical, Talmudic, and secular sources forms the basis of Palestinian topography, but it is not enough. However valuable the work of Reland may be, it is incomplete because it lacks a direct relationship with the soil which is essential to geography ."
— F. -M. Abel, Edward Robinson and the Identification of Biblical Sites, Journal of Biblical Literature, Vol. 58, No. 4 (Dec., 1939), pp. 365-372 - ^ Zur Shalev, University of Haifa Digital Gallery, introduction to Reland's book Palaestina ex monumentis veteribus illustrata