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Beginnings of Shi'i Studies in Germany: Rudolf Strothmann and His Correspondence with Carl Heinrich Becker, Ignaz Goldziher, Eugeneo Griffini, and Cor

Beginnings of Shi'i Studies in Germany: Rudolf Strothmann and His Correspondence with Carl Heinrich Becker, Ignaz Goldziher, Eugeneo Griffini, and Cor

Schmidtke, Sabine

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Series: Transactions of the American Philosophical Society, Book 64

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ISBN10: 1606181211
ISBN13: 9781606181218
Publisher: American Philosophical Society Press
Published: Jan 1 2023
Pages: 480
Weight: 1.82
Height: 0.97 Width: 7.00 Depth: 10.00
Language: English

Rudolf Strothmann (1877-1960) played a pioneering role in the scholarly exploration of Shīʿī Islam in Western, especially German, scholarship. Between 1910 and 1923, he published many pathbreaking studies on the Zaydiyya, a sub-sect of Shia Islam that emerged in the eighth century, consulting primarily the recently purchased collections of Yemeni Zaydī manuscripts in Berlin. At the same time Strothmann delved into the literature of the most dominant form of Islam, known as Twelver Shī ʿī. This endeavor culminated in his 1926 monograph, Die Zwölfer-Schī ʿa: Zwei religionsgeschichtliche Charakterbilder aus der Mongolenzeit, a portrait of two prominent seventh- and thirteenth-century Imāmī scholars--Naṣīr al-Dīn al-Ṭūsī (d. 672/1274) and Raḍī al-Dīn ʿAlī b. Mūsā Ibn Ṭāwūs (d. 664/1266).

Strothmann's published work testifies to his erudition and versatility and continues to form an important point of departure for scholars working on different aspects of Shī ʿism in the early twenty-first century. In addition, his use of the manuscript treasures in the Berlin State Library between 1908 and 1926 reflects his evolution as a scholar over those years. Sabine Schmidtke examines these earlier decades of Strothmann's life and his development as a theologian and a scholar of Semitic languages and Islamic culture.

Schmidtke also explores Strothman's correspondence with Carl Heinrich Beker, Ignaz Godziher, Eugenio Griffini, and Cornelis van Arendonk to shed further light on this period of his thought. The book includes an annotated edition of this correspondence, making it a valuable resource for further research.

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