Ignaz Goldziher as a Jewish Orientalist
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- ISBN 9783110740103
- Weight: 569g
- Dimensions: 155 x 230mm
- Publication Date: 27 Apr 2023
- Publisher: De Gruyter
- Publication City/Country: DE
- Product Form: Hardback
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Ignaz Goldziher (1850-1921), one of the founders of modern Arabic and Islamic studies, was a Hungarian Jew and a Professor at the University of Budapest. A wunderkind who mastered Hebrew, Latin, Greek, Turkish, Persian, and Arabic as a teenager, his works reached international acclaim long before he was appointed professor in his native country. From his initial vision of Jewish religious modernization via the science of religion, his academic interests gradually shifted to Arabic-Islamic themes. Yet his early Jewish program remained encoded in his new scholarly pursuits. Islamic studies was a refuge for him from his grievances with the Jewish establishment; from local academic and social irritations he found comfort in his international network of colleagues. This intellectual and academic transformation is explored in the book in three dimensions – scholarship on religion, in religion (Judaism and Islam), and as religion – utilizing his diaries, correspondences and his little-known early Hungarian works.
Tamás Turán, Eötvös Loránd University and Institute for Minority Studies at the Centre for Social Sciences, Budapest, Hungary.
