Sociologie et Islamwissenschaft: Max Weber et Ignaz Goldziher ou la non rencontre

Abstract

Claiming different conceptions of the Kulturgeschichte, Max Weber and Ignaz Goldziher have deeply marked their respective disciplines and have even played a leading role against their contemporary cultural and scientific temptations. They had mostly had the merit of safeguarding the full autonomy of the religious reality, mostly against Marxism (Weber) and against the New School of Islamic studies (Goldziher). But these two scholars were also distinguished by their skepticism regarding the new science, that is sociology, that Weber wanted to strictly define among the Kulturwissenschaften and against which Goldziher wanted to protect the Islamwissenschaft. However, if Weber had sometimes lost in his approach to Islam, Goldziher, who stayed in a classic conception of categories as basic as those of asceticism, for example, or Beruf, had remained away from Weberian concerns of religious relationships with modernity. Obviously these two scholars would have won a lot about each other.