What is it about?
When Ignaz Goldziher passed away on November 13, 1921, he left behind a corpus of scientific correspondence of over 13,000 letters from about 1,650 persons, in ten languages. His Nachlass, including the letters and his hand-written notes and works, was bequeathed to the Hungarian Academy of Sciences. The corpus, freely accessible in digital form, constitutes the most important source informing about the history of Arabic, Jewish, and Islamic studies and cognate fields during Goldziher's time. Selected portions of the Goldziher correspondence are available in critical editions. In contrast, other portions have been consulted for studies on the history of the field, but the bulk of the material has as yet remained untapped. This inventory aims to provide an overview of those parts of the correspondence that are available in publication, and studies based on the correspondence.
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Why is it important?
In addition to international congresses, correspondence was the primary form of scholarly communication in Ignaz Goldziher's time. He discussed numerous topics of interest through letters exchanged with the most prominent scholars of the period. Goldziher corresponded in eleven languages with over 1,600 individuals, making his correspondence a valuable resource for scholars of Islam and Judaism.
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Collecting items for a bibliography might seem tedious, but with a dedicated co-author and a worthy topic, it is well worth the effort. I hope this contributes to further research on Goldziher's correspondence.
Kinga Dévényi
Budapesti Corvinus Egyetem
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This page is a summary of: The Published Correspondence of Ignaz Goldziher: A Bibliographical Guide, February 2024, De Gruyter,
DOI: 10.1163/9789004690592_016.
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