Ignác Goldziher's report on the books brought from the orient for the Hungarian Academy of Sciences
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© The author. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the University of Manchester. All rights reserved.This paper contains the English translation of Ignác Goldziher's Hungarian essay Report on the Books Brought from the Orient for the Hungarian Academy of Sciences with Regard to the Conditions of the Printing Press in the Orient (1874). The introduction provides the historical and scholarly context of the article. The Arabic printed books Goldziher bought in Egypt reflect his understanding of a specialized Arabic Studies library in the 1870s. The general argument is that Goldziher connected the Arab nation and Arabic texts based on the Hungarian and German concepts of liberal nationalism. This connection instrumentalized religious texts for a non-religious goal.
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Mestyan, A (2015). Ignác Goldziher's report on the books brought from the orient for the Hungarian Academy of Sciences. Journal of Semitic Studies, 60(2). pp. 443–480. 10.1093/jss/fgv008 Retrieved from https://hdl.handle.net/10161/12571.
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Adam Mestyan
Adam Mestyan is a historian of the modern Arab world. He is Associate Professor of History and the Director of both the Middle East Studies Center and the Islamic Studies Center at Duke University. He is also the Director of Graduate Studies for the Graduate Certificate in Middle East Studies.
In matters of DUMESC/DISC and the Graduate Certificate in MES please contact Prof. Mestyan at: dumesc-director@duke.edu.
Prof. Mestyan has also been the recipient of many fellowships and awards including a junior fellowship in the Society of Fellows at Harvard University and a membership in the Institute for Advanced Study (Princeton).
His research focuses on modern Syria and Egypt. His monographs include Modern Arab Kingship – Remaking the Ottoman Political Order in the Interwar Middle East (Princeton University Press, 2023), Primordial History, Print Capitalism, and Egyptology in Nineteenth-Century Cairo (Ifao, 2021); and Arab Patriotism: The Ideology and Culture of Power in Late Ottoman Egypt (Princeton University Press, 2017). He is currently the PI of the collaborative Arabic digital humanities project, Digital Cairo – Studying Urban Transformation through a TEI XML Database, 1828-1914, supported by the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) and L’Institut français d’archéologie orientale du Caire (Ifao).
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