É. Apor , I. Ormos (ed.): Goldziher Memorial Conference, June 21–22, 2000, Budapest.

Preface

participants from Arab countries - particularly Egypt and Syria. The Goldziher Memorial Conference took place on 21 and 22 June 2000. The addresses and lectures were delivered on the first day while on the second day the participants accepted our invitation to an excursion to Székesfehérvár, where we visited the beautifully restored mediaeval house where Goldziher was bom and laid a wreath under the memorial plaque there. The present volume contains most of the papers read at the Conference. In the editing of the papers only minor changes have been made; no complete unification has been attempted. We decided to include a selection of personal photographs from the Goldziher family collection, which may lend a personal touch to our volume in bringing close to us the fragile personality of this great scholar. We are greatly indebted to Chief Archivist Zsuzsanna Toronyi and the Hungarian Jewish Museum and Archives in Budapest for the permission to publish these photographs. We hope that our volume will be a modest yet worthy token of homage to the memory of a great man whose scholarly oeuvre and personality never cease to command the admiration of later generations. Budapest, 15 December 2003 Éva Apor Head of the Oriental Collection István Ormos Keeper of Arabic Manuscripts 10