Author(s): Moshfegh, David | Advisor(s): Jay, Martin | Abstract: Ignaz Goldziher and the Rise of ... more Author(s): Moshfegh, David | Advisor(s): Jay, Martin | Abstract: Ignaz Goldziher and the Rise of Islamwissenschaft as a `Science of Religion'byDavid MoshfeghDoctor of Philosophy in HistoryProfessor Martin Jay, ChairThis study discusses the rise of Islamwissenschaft as a `science of religion' in the reformist scholarship of the Jewish Orientalist, Ignaz Goldziher. The `science of religion' tradition in nineteenth-century European scholarship was a historicist discourse that approached religious traditions critically and with the tools of critical scholarship. But, it did so not to debunk their sacred claims, but to argue that their religious meaning was present not in their traditionalist and transcendental demarcation of themselves but in their teleological development as they moved towards the definition and realization of `religion' itself. All religions had something of religion in them and there was religious progress in human history towards `religion' as su...
Author(s): Moshfegh, David | Advisor(s): Jay, Martin | Abstract: Ignaz Goldziher and the Rise of ... more Author(s): Moshfegh, David | Advisor(s): Jay, Martin | Abstract: Ignaz Goldziher and the Rise of Islamwissenschaft as a `Science of Religion'byDavid MoshfeghDoctor of Philosophy in HistoryProfessor Martin Jay, ChairThis study discusses the rise of Islamwissenschaft as a `science of religion' in the reformist scholarship of the Jewish Orientalist, Ignaz Goldziher. The `science of religion' tradition in nineteenth-century European scholarship was a historicist discourse that approached religious traditions critically and with the tools of critical scholarship. But, it did so not to debunk their sacred claims, but to argue that their religious meaning was present not in their traditionalist and transcendental demarcation of themselves but in their teleological development as they moved towards the definition and realization of `religion' itself. All religions had something of religion in them and there was religious progress in human history towards `religion' as su...
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