Ignaz Goldziher as a Jewish Orientalist: Traditional Learning, Critical Scholarship, and Personal Piety

Tamás Turán

Published by De Gruyter Oldenbourg 2023

Ignaz Goldziher as a Jewish Orientalist

Traditional Learning, Critical Scholarship, and Personal Piety

Tamás Turán

Volume 55 in the series Europäisch-jüdische Studien – Beiträge

https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110741285

Overview
Contents

About this book

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.

Author / Editor information

Tamás Turán, Eötvös Loránd University and Institute for Minority Studies at the Centre for Social Sciences, Budapest, Hungary.

Topics

Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	I
Preface Publicly Available Download PDF	V
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	VII
Abbreviations and Transcription Publicly Available Download PDF	IX
I Introduction Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
II Historical and Academic Milieu Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	36
III Problems of Biography and Self-perception Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	63
IV Between Education and Scholarship Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	100
V Between Islamic and Jewish Law Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	119
VI Between Historicist “Science of Religion” and Ethnography Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	138
VII Between Tradition and Reform Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	169
VIII Personal-professional Relationships: a Sample Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	202
IX Goldziher as a Jew Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	221
Conclusion Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	237
Appendices Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	243
Bibliography Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	255
Images Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	283
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	287

(Deutsch)

Language: English
Publisher: De Gruyter Oldenbourg
Audience: Scholars with a special interest in Oriental, Arabic, Islamic and Jewish Studies
Pages
- Front matter: 10
- Main content: 298
Illustrations
- Illustrations: 7
- Coloured Illustrations: 2
Keywords: Arabic and Islamic Scholarship; History of Oriental Studies; Hungarian Orientalism; Neolog Judaism; Hungarian Jewish History

eBook

Published: April 27, 2023
ISBN: 9783110741285

Hardcover

Published: April 27, 2023
ISBN: 9783110740103