8vo. xiv, 600 pp., German text, Preface in English, publisher’s original wrappers, index, few pencil markings in margins, otherwise copy in very good condition, Sources for the History of Islamic Studies in the Western World Series, Volume 2, Documentatiebureau Islam-Christendom, Faculteit der Godgeleerdheid, Rijksuniversiteit, P. Sj. van Koningsveld, Leiden, 1985.

Synopsis

An important work which contains 488 letters between Christian Snouck Hurgronje (1857-1936) to his Hungarian colleague and friend, Ignaz Goldziher (1850-1921), followed by a few letters of other members of the Snouck Hurgronje family to Goldzihers.
The contact between Snouck Hurgronje and Goldziher from a significant aspect of the formative period of European Islamwissenschaft. In his personal diary, one of the most precious documents of the western study of Islam, Ignaz Goldziher bears witness to the importance of his correspondence with Hurgronje, for his scholarly and literary development.