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

Tamás Turán

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Ignaz Goldziher as a Jewish Orientalist

Traditional Learning, Critical Scholarship, and Personal Piety

Tamás Turán

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Published/Copyright: 2023

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Volume 55 | Europäisch-jüdische Studien – Beiträge

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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.

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

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I Introduction
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II Historical and Academic Milieu
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III Problems of Biography and Self-perception
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IV Between Education and Scholarship
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V Between Islamic and Jewish Law
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VI Between Historicist “Science of Religion” and Ethnography
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VII Between Tradition and Reform
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VIII Personal-professional Relationships: a Sample
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IX Goldziher as a Jew
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Conclusion
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Appendices
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Bibliography
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Images
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Index
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April 27, 2023

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eBook ISBN: 9783110741285

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Arabic and Islamic Scholarship; History of Oriental Studies; Hungarian Orientalism; Neolog Judaism; Hungarian Jewish History

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Scholars with a special interest in Oriental, Arabic, Islamic and Jewish Studies

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Ignaz Goldziher as a Jewish Orientalist

Overview

About this book

Author / Editor information

Topics

Table of contents

Frontmatter

Preface

Contents

Abbreviations and Transcription

I Introduction

II Historical and Academic Milieu

III Problems of Biography and Self-perception

IV Between Education and Scholarship

V Between Islamic and Jewish Law

VI Between Historicist “Science of Religion” and Ethnography

VII Between Tradition and Reform

VIII Personal-professional Relationships: a Sample

IX Goldziher as a Jew

Conclusion

Appendices

Bibliography

Images

Index

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