Beginnings of Shi’i Studies in Germany: Rudolf Strothmann and His Correspondence with Carl Heinrich Becker, Ignaz Goldziher, Eugeneo Griffini, and Conrelis van Arendonk, 1910 through 1926, Transaction

ISBN-13: 9781606181218 / Angielski / Miękka / 2023 / 432 str.

Sabine Schmidtke

Opis

Rudolf Strothmann (1877-1960) played a pioneering role in the scholarly exploration of Shi’i Islam in Western, especially German, scholarship. Between 1910 & 1923, he published many pathbreaking studies on the Zaydiyya, consulting primarily the recently purchased collections of Yemeni Zaydi manuscripts in Berlin. At the same time, he began to delve into Twelver Shi’i literature, culminating in his 1926 monograph on two prominent 7th- & 13th-cent. Imami scholars. This study examines the earlier decades of Strothmann’s life and his development as a theologian and a scholar of Semitic languages & Islamic culture. It also sheds light on his scholarly work through his correspondence with several scholars. Illus.