Ignác Goldziher’s Reception in the Arab World

  • Yohanan Friedmann*
  • *Corresponding author for this work

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Abstract

The article discusses in detail the views of Arab thinkers on the scholarly oeuvre of Goldziher. It is based on an analysis of the Arab translations of Goldziher’s Vorlesungen über den Islam, Die Richtungen der islamischen Koranauslegung and of his Tagebuch. It describes the praise showered on Goldziher in some prefaces to the translations, as well as the criticism of his approach included in the footnotes appended to them. There is also an analysis of views which consider Goldziher’s work as part of the imperialist project to destroy Islam and do not find any redeeming feature in his work.

Original languageEnglish
JournalActa Orientalia
DOIs
StateAccepted/In press - 2026

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Keywords

  • Aḥmad Fuʾād Pasha
  • Muḥammad Yūsuf Mūsā
  • Muḥammad al-Ghazālī
  • Muḥammad ʿAwnī ʿAbd al-Raʾūf
  • Najīb al-ʿAqīqī
  • Orientalists
  • ʿAbd al-Raḥmān Badawī
  • ʿAbd Ḥalīm al-Najjār
  • ʿAlī Ḥasan ʿAbd al-Qādir
  • ʿAlī Ḥasan ʿAbd al-Qādir

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