É. Apor , I. Ormos (ed.): Goldziher Memorial Conference, June 21–22, 2000, Budapest.
ORMOS, István: The Correspondence of Ignaz Goldziher and Max Herz
THE CORRESPONDENCE OF IGNAZ GOLDZIHER AND MAX H ERZ life of which he was unable to rid himself in any other way. This means that the text of the Tagebuch has to be "decoded" and it is in this way only that the true views will be revealed of a person who exercised complete control over himself throughout all his life. The letters contain the answers to numerous questions by Goldziher. In some cases the answers were given by Herz himself, in others he made enquiries for Goldziher. So, for instance, Goldziher enquired after the exact location and course of Hurunfus Street. Herz sent him a fine, detailed sketch of the area, together with explanatory notes, indicating the exact course of this winding street. Then Goldziher enquired after the mosque of Ibn al-Bannä, also known as the mosque of Säm ibn Null. 4 The data supplied by Herz were then used by Goldziher in his article ' Aus dem mohammedanischen Heiligenkultus in Ägypten '. 4 S Herz informed Goldziher of the exact location of the mosque in the vicinity of Bäb Zuwayla adding some remarks concerning MaqrTzi's description of it and gave some interesting details of its present shape and state. He informed Goldziher that he had been shown Sam's burial place next to the mihräb, yet nobody he had met had known anything about 4 7 On it see Taqiyy al-DIn Abü l-'Abbäs Ahmad ibn 'Ali al-MaqrizI, Kitäb al-mawä'iz wa-li'tibär bi-dikr al-hitat wa-1-ätär al-ma'rúf bi-l-hitat al-maqriziyya, Büläq 1270 [1853], vol. 1, p. 361, line (-4H-3), p. 363, line (-10H-9), p. 373, line (-8H-7), p. 380, line (-13)(-12), vol. 2, p. 92, line (-11), p. 100, line 16, especially p. 409, line (-16), p. 410, line 6 = Id., Al-Mawä'iz wa-Ti'tibär fi dikr al-hitat wa-l-ätär. Ed. Ayman Fu'äd Sayyid, London 1422/2002-1424/2003, vol. 2, p. 213, line 5, p. 220, line 9-10; p. 245, line 4; p. 267, line 16; vol. 3, p. 306, line 15; p. 332, line 5; especially vol. 4, part 2, p. 708, line 7-p. 709, line 21. Cf. also Mubarak, Al-Hitat al-tawfiqiyya al-gadida li-Misr al-Qähira. 2nd ed., Cairo 1969-, vol. 6, 84 [Zäwiyat Säm ibn Nüh, Targamat Ibn al-Bannä], 129 [Masgid Ibn al-Bannä]. The mosque is not a listed monument. On June 9, 1999, a large section of the roof collapsed. The authorities decided that the mosque was unsafe and should be closed down. The community did not accept this decision and appealed to Agnieszka Dobrowolska, who was restoring the adjacent sabil of Muhammad 'All. Funding was found and she rebuilt the mosque. This case is often cited nowadays as an excellent example of the active participation of a given community in a restoration project. Agnieszka Dobrowolska, Sam Ibn Nuh Mosque. Community Support Project, Cairo, September 2000 - November 2001. Cairo 2002; Caroline Williams, 'Transforming the Old: Cairo's New Medieval City', Middle East Journal 56 (2002), 470-471. On the sabil see Agnieszka Dobrowolska, Khaled Fahmy, Muhammad 'Ali Pasha and His Sabil. Cairo 2004. 4 8 Ignaz Goldziher, 'Aus dem mohammedanischen Heiligenkultus in Ägypten', Globus 71 (1897), 235b-236a [= Goldziher, Gesummelte Schriften .... vol. IV, 113b-! 14a]. 171
