Building Bridges: Ignaz Goldziher and His Correspondents

Hans-Jürgen Becker, Dr. theol. (1989), Georg-August-Universität Göttingen, is Professor of New Testament and Jewish Studies at that university. He has published editions, translations and monographs on Rabbinic Judaism, including the Talmud Yerushalmi (7 vols., Mohr 1991-2001) and Avot de-Rabbi Natan (3 vols., Mohr 2004-2016). Kinga Dévényi, Ph.D. (1985), independent scholar. She has published extensively on topics ranging from the history of Arabic grammar to codicology, including a Catalogue of the Arabic Manuscripts in the Library of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences (Leiden: Brill; Budapest: MTAK, 2016). Sebastian Günther, Ph.D. (1989), Georg August University, Göttingen, is Professor and Chair of Arabic and Islamic at this university. He has published extensively on the intellectual history of Islam, including the edited volume Knowledge and Education in Classical Islam: Religious Learning between Continuity and Change (2 vols., Brill 2020). Sabine Schmidtke, Ph.D. (1990), Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton NJ, is Professor of Islamic Intellectual History at that institution. She has published on topics ranging from intellectual history, the history of Oriental studies, and the Arabic Bible, including Martin Schreiner between Islamic Studies and “Wissenschaft des Judentums”: A Study of His Life and Work (Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, 2024).

• List of FiguresNotes on Contributors1 Scholarly Correspondence: Mapping the DNA of Scholarship. An IntroductionHans-Jürgen Becker, Kinga Dévényi, Sebastian Günther, Sabine Schmidtke2 “In vollkommener Verehrung”: Israel Friedlaender’s Letters to GoldziherCamilla Adang3 “Your unconscious personal influence started me on my course”: On the Correspondence of Ignaz Goldziher and Duncan B. MacdonaldKinga Dévényi4 Ignaz Goldziher: The Founding Father of Gesture Studies in Arabic and Islamic StudiesLivnat Holtzman and Miriam Ovadia5 Rediscovering the Goldziher Legacy in Jerusalem: Religion, Language, and History in the Making of a Hebrew UniversityAmit Levy6 On The Kiss: An Early Piece of Correspondence between Ignaz Goldziher and Immanuel LöwDóra Pataricza and Máté Hidvégi7 A Complicated Relationship: Carlo Landberg’s Friendship with Ignaz Goldziher—Between Ambition and Anti-SemitismChristoph Rauch8 Arabicae investigationes in the Correspondence between Carlo Alfonso Nallino and Ignaz Goldziher, 1893 through 1920Valentina Sagaria Rossi9 Ignaz Goldziher, Walter Gottschalk, and the Kitāb al-Aymān by Ibrāhīm b. ʿAbd Allāh al-NajīramīSabine Schmidtke10 Publishing Ibn Tūmart’s “Book” in Colonial Algeria: The Correspondence of J.D. Luciani, E. Doutté and M. Gaudefroy-Demombynes with I. GoldziherJan Thiele11 The Goldziher Collection at the National Library of IsraelSamuel Thrope12 Goldziher and Jewish Scholarship in Light of His Correspondence with Immanuel Löw and Michael GuttmannTamás Turán13 Friend, Teacher, “Shaykh”: Goldziher and the Founders of Islamic Studies in St. PetersburgMaxim Yosefi14 Goldziher as a Master: The Correspondence of Ignaz Goldziher and Martin SchreinerDora Zsom15 The Published Correspondence of Ignaz Goldziher: A Bibliographical GuideKinga Dévényi and Sabine SchmidtkeIndex