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 HERZ cooperate in the publication of the Encyclopaedia of Islam: "1 accept gladly your invitation to participate in the Encyclopaedia of Islam and thank you for having thought of me. So you can proceed in accordance with your intention and notify the congress of it officially. (Ihren Auftrag mich an der Real-Encyclopädie des Islam zu beteiligen nehme ich gerne an it. danke, daß Sie an mich gedacht haben. Sie können daher Ihrer Absicht gemäß handeln und hievon dem Congresse offiziell Kenntnis geben. )"

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7 Then in his letter of 24 November 1898 Herz informed Goldziher that the entry "Muhammadan Architectural Style (Mohammedanischer Baustil)" was ready but he wanted to clarify certain details, for instance, whether illustrations were to accompany the article or not. He said he wanted to write the entry "Stalactites (Stalaktiten)" also but in any case he wanted to send the text of the entries first to Goldziher for inspection and then to Prof. Houtsma. He was anxious: "I want only perfect things from me to be published. I would appreciate severe criticism in this case. (Ich möchte gerne, daß nur Perfektes von mir erscheint. Da würde mir strenge Kritik angenehm sein.)" However, no article by Herz seems to have appeared in the final printed version of the Encyclopaedia."

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8 Herz asked Goldziher about his opinion on some aspects of the religion of Islam in connection with various publications. In his letter dated Milan, 3 July 1902 he asked Goldziher to lend him a copy of his Hungarian book on Islam for the short period of a week promising to return it as soon as possible. He needed it for the historical introduction of his concise history of Islamic art in Hungarian. He returned it together with a post-card sent from Castiglione-Olona (Como, Italy) on 18 September 1902. From the letters it appears clearly that Goldziher played no role in Herz's having been commissioned to write this important work.'"' Nevertheless Goldziher seems to have taken an active interest in the publication of this work. It appears from the letters clearly that it was Goldziher who urged him to participate in the Eleventh International Congress of Orientalists in Paris in 1897 informing him of practical details at the same time, although the idea had come originally from Herz.

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0 Herz planned to submit a paper on the state of research done in the field of the history of Islamic art. The conclusion of the paper would consist of a proposal to 11

1 See Ignaz Goldziher, Rapport de M. Goldziher sur le projet d'une Encyclopédie musulmane présenté ä la Section lslamique le 7 septembre 1897. XP Congrés international des Orientalistes, Paris 1897, 11 pages. 10

8 Cf. Goldziher, 'Real-Encyklopädie des Islam', Österreichische Monatsschrift fir den Orient 23 (1897), 114-117 [=Id., Gesammelte Schriften..., vol. IV, 129-132]. Id., 'Rapport sur le projet d'une Encyclopédie musulmane', Actes du douziéme congrés international des orientalistes Rome 1899, Florence 1901-1902, vol. I, clxxviii-clxxxii. "" This was due to the literary historian and aesthete Zsolt Beöthy. 11

0 See for instance his letter dated Hotel Beau-Séjour, Stresa, Lago Maggiore, 1 August 1897. 193