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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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