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The Goldziher Correspondence

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he correspondence of the most outstanding personage of Islam research, Ignác Goldziher (18501921) has extraordinary value in the Oriental Collection. The stock of over 13,000 letters written to the scholar was donated to the Academy in the arrangement of his son Károly Goldziher. Correspondence was the major form of scientific communication apart from international congresses in Goldziher's days, so he disIgnac GOLDZIHER (1850-1921) RÓBERT SIMON IGNÁC GOLDZIHER His Life and Scholarship as Reflected in his Works and Correspondence M 1986 Library of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences Budapest E 1 Brill Leiden veld and others), his studies are published again and again all over the world. The latest publication of the Oriental Collection is a rich selection of Ignác Goldziher's studies published in Hungarian, A? arabok és az iszlám - The Arabs and Islam, with an introductory study by István Ormos (1995). cussed many questions of scientific interest in his letters exchanged with the most prominent scholars of his time, such as Th. Nöldeke. The life-work of the dean of the Faculty of Arts at the Budapest University, the president of the Academy's Department of Linguistic and Literary Sciences for fourteen years, is still in the focus of scientific interest and research. His correspondence is being analyzed by Hungarian and foreign scholars (Róbert Simon, R Sj. van KoningsGOLDZIHER IGNÁC AZ ARABOK ÉS AZ ISZLÁM Válogatott tanulmányok THE ARABS AND ISLAM Selected Studies BUDAPEST 1996