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Lot #    16955
Auction End Date    1/23/2007 12:03:58 PM (mm/dd/yyyy)
          
Title Information
Title (English)    Koranische Untersuchungen
Author    [Only Ed.] Josef Horovitz
City    Berlin - Leipzig
Publisher    Walter de Gruyter & Co.
Publication Date    1926
          
Collection Information
Independent Item    This listing is an independent item not part of any collection
          
Description Information
Physical
Description		    Only edition. [6], 171 pp., 244:167 mm., wide margins, usual age staining. A very good copy bound in contemporary cloth boards, rubbed.
          
Detailed
Description		    Josef Horovitz (1874–1931), German orientalist. Horovitz, the son of Marcus Horovitz, was born in Lauenburg, Germany. He studied at the University of Berlin with Edward Sachau and taught there from 1902. He worked in India from 1907 to 1914, teaching Arabic at the Muhammedan Anglo-Oriental College of Aligarh and serving as the curator of Islamic inscriptions for the Indian government. In this capacity he edited the collection Epigraphia Indo-Moslemica (1909–12). Some years after he had left India, Horovitz published Indien unter britischer Herrschaft (1928). Returning to Germany, he taught Semitic languages at the University of Frankfort from 1914 to his death. As a member of the board of trustees of Hebrew University from its inception, Horovitz created the department of oriental studies, became its director, and initiated its collective project, the concordance of early Arabic poetry. At first Horovitz devoted himself to the study of Arabic historical literature and then to early Arabic poetry. His major work was a commentary on the Koran, which he did not complete. He translated the poetry miscellany Kumit El ha-Asimiat (1904). In his Koran Studien (1926) he applied his method of detailed analysis of the language used by Muhammad and his disciples and historical insights gained from the study of the early texts themselves. He examined relations between Islam and Judaism in his "Jewish Proper Names and Derivatives in the Koran" (in HUCA, 2 (1925), 145–227; repr. 1964) and his "Das koranische Paradies" (in Scripta Universitatis atque Bibliothecae Hierosolymitanarum, Orientalia et Judaica, 1 (1923); also in Ha-Tekufah, 23 (1925), 276ff.).
          
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Period
20th Century:    Checked
  
Location
Germany:    Checked
  
Subject
Other:    Koran
  
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First Editions:    Checked
Language:    German
  
Manuscript Type
  
Kind of Judaica