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

HOPKINS, Simon: The Language Studies of Ignaz Goldziher

THE LANGUAGE STUDIES OF IGNAZ GOLDZIHER Hungary and his German Wanderjahre, his first ventures into Arabic literary history, his oriental tour of 1873-4 to the Levant and Egypt, his aforementioned German book on Hebrew mythology (1876) and culminated in his Hungarian History of Grammar among the Arabs (1878), to which we shall return below §7. The oriental tour played a crucial role in familiarizing Goldziher at first hand with the spoken Arabic of the Middle East, the life of its inhabitants and the contents of its libraries (see below §6 end). His acquisitions in the bookshops of Damascus and Cairo"

9 also put him in very good stead. He ever after cherished the memory of his visit to the Levant and Egypt, which he regarded as the happiest time of his life,

1"' rivalled only by his participation in the Eighth International Congress of Orientalists in Stockholm in 1889.

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4 Goldziher's general philological activity during this period has been sketched above §2; his specifically Arabic studies will be mentioned in §6. In the second period, from 1876/8-1910,Goldziher turned more and more to the study of Islam, the field in which his name will always be remembered and revered. Towards the beginning of this second period there appeared in French Le culte des saints chez les musulmans, RHR 2 (1880), 257-351 (and separately Paris 1880) = GS VI 62 and a large Hungarian work entitled Az iszlám (Budapest 1881), which is in some ways a forerunner

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K' of his celebrated Muhammedanische Studien, 2 vols. (Halle 1889-1890). In the interim he published Die Zdhiriten (Leipzig 1884). The Muhammedanische Studien were followed by further landmarks: his edition of Der Diwan des Garwal b. Aus al-Hutej'a (Leipzig 1893)

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s a Hungarian treatise on Arabic historiography, A történetírás az arab irodalomban [Historiography in Arabic Literature] (Budapest 1895 [in fact 1896]),'"'' the two parts completion of Die Zdhiriten (93) and participation in the Sixth International Congress of Orientalists in Leiden (95-96); the death of Fleischer in 1888 was another landmark for him (116). 10

2 Oriental Diary 120, 125, 147, 151, 152; Tagebuch 58, 60, 66, 72-73 and cf. Heller no. 40 = Az arabok I 65, no. 40a, no. 43 = GS I 347, no. 45, no. 51 = GS I 351, no. 52. The acquisition of Arabic books for the Library of the Hungarian Academy was among the official purposes of Goldziher's trip. 10

3 Tagebuch 55, 58, 64, 73. 10

4 Tagebuch 117ff., 120, 177, 189 and cf. ibid. 258 on the death of King Oscar II. 1 Called by Németh, Acta Orientalia Hung. 1 (1950), 15-16 the "Fleischer-Periode". 10

6 A detailed synopsis of the six chapters of the work is given by Heller no. 85, pp. 30-35. 1

0 Reprinted from the ZDMG. The details in Heller no. 157 are incomplete; add ZDMG 47 (1893), 43-85, 163-201. 111

8 The reprint in GS has been made from the instalments published in ZDMG and thus omits the dedication to Landberg and the addenda of the separate edition. 10

9 Synopsis in Heller no. 179. Of this Hungarian work Goldziher did not subsequently publish a revised version in German; the Hungarian text has been reprinted in Ormos's Az arabok II 635-681 and an English translation provided by DeSomogyi, GS III 359-394. 105