Goldziher’s formulations remain the field’s basic underpinnings today

Evidence

Despite the relatively humble posts that Goldziher occupied for most of his career, he was perfectly well aware how clever and important he was. He was an arrogant and passionate scholar. According to Lawrence Conrad, a leading historian of early Islam and an expert on the life and works of Goldziher, ‘The formulations of Goldziher remain to this day the basic underpinnings of the field.’ According to Albert Hourani, the author of A History of the Arab Peoples, ‘Goldziher shaped our view of what Islam is more than anyone else.’ — Robert Irwin, For Lust of Knowing, 349

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