Goldziher Ignác: Az arabok és az iszlám / The Arabs and Islam. 1. köt. Szerk. Ormos István. (Budapest Oriental Reprints, Ser. A 7.)

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translation of My Oriental Diary,

2 a thrilling and important document of the 1873 —1874 Near East study tour (to Istanbul, Beirut, Damascus, Jerusalem and Cairo) of the 23 year old Privatdozent of Pest University. Goldziher's vast correspondence

3 has begun to attract the attention of the scholarly world: P. Sj. van Koningsveld published Christiaan Snouck Hurgronje's (1857 — 1936) letters to Goldziher

4, only to be followed by a highly important selection of Goldziher's correspondence with Theodor Nöldeke (1836 — 1930) edited by Róbert Simon

5. We are indebted to Róbert Simon,

6 Raphael Patai

7 and Lawrence I. Conrad

8 for remarkable studies, which will no doubt stimulate further research. 2 Raphael Patai: Ignaz Goldziher and His Oriental Diary. A Translation and Psychological Portrait. Detroit, 1987; cf., Lawrence I. Conrad: The Near East Study Tour Diary of Ignaz Goldziher. In: Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society (JRAS) 1990, 105-126. 3 The c. 13,700 letters received by Goldziher („Goldziher's Correspondence") are kept in the Oriental Collection of the Library of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Budapest. 4 Scholarship and Friendship in Early Islamwissenschaft. The Letters of C. Snouck Hurgronje to I. Goldziher. From the Oriental Collection of the Library of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Budapest. Published by P. Sj. van Koningsveld. Leiden, 1985 (Abdoel-Ghaffar. Sources for the History of Islamic Studies in the Western World, Vol. 2). Soon after Goldziher's death the Hungarian Academy made efforts to acquire Goldziher's letters to Snouck Hurgronje but the request was politely turned down by the addressee. After Snouck Hurgronje's death, however, his widow sent the letters to Goldziher's son, Károly, no doubt with the intention that they should be kept together with the other letters in the Academy. We know that the letters in fact were received by Károly Goldziher but no further trace can be found of them. It may be assumed that they got lost or were destroyed during the siege of Budapest in World War II together with Goldziher's author's copies of his own works. See Scheiber's foreword to Goldziher: Napló..., 5. 5 Róbert Simon: Ignác Goldziher, His Life and Scholarship as Reflected in His Works and Correspondence. Budapest —Leiden, 1986, 157 — 447. 6 Simon Róbert: Goldziher Ignác. Adalékok a nemzeti és a polgári fejlődés antinómiáinak és egy tudomány születésének közép-kelet-európai összefüggéseihez [Ignaz Goldziher. Contributions to the Central-Eastern European Relationships of the Antinomies of National and Bourgeois Developments to the Birth of a Scholarly Discipline], In: Magyar Filozófiai Szemle [Hungarian Review of Philosophy] 1982, 336-379; [in English:] id.: Ignác Goldziher. His Life..., 11-76 (Chapter One: A Paradigmatic Life); id.: Goldziher Ignác — hetven év múltán. Régi-új problémák és tanulságok [Ignaz Goldziher—After Seventy Years. Old yet New Problems and Lessons], In: 2000, 1991 December, 46-57. 7 Patai: Ignaz Goldziher and His Oriental Diary..., 13—79 (Introduction: „The Great Goldziher, "A Psychological Portrait). 8 Lawrence I. Conrad: The Dervish's Disciple; On the Personality and Intellectual Milieu of the Young Ignaz Goldziher. In: JRAS 1990, 225 - 266; id.: The Pilgrim from Pest. Goldziher's XXIII