Martin Hartmann (9 December 1851, Breslau – 5 December 1918, Berlin) was a German orientalist, who specialized in Islamic studies.
In 1875, he received his doctorate at the University of Leipzig as a student of Heinrich Leberecht Fleischer. From 1876 to 1887 he served as a dragoman at the German General Consulate in Beirut. From 1887 until his death in 1918 he taught classes at the Department of Oriental Languages in Berlin.[1]
As a professor in Berlin he strove hard for the recognition of Islamic studies as an independent discipline. His numerous contributions to the field of Islamic studies were based on a sociological standpoint. Many of these works were published in the journal "Die Welt des Islams" (The World of Islam), a publication of the "Deutsche Gesellschaft für Islamkunde", an organization that Hartmann was a co-founder of in 1912.[2][1]
The Arab author Shakib Arslan strongly criticized and pushed back against Hartmann for his views on Islam and his writings on the Muslims of China.[3]
Selected works
edit- Hartmann, M. (1883). "Die Ortschaftenliste des Liwa Jerusalem in dem türkischen Staatskalender für Syrien auf das Jahr 1288 der Flucht (1871)". Zeitschrift des Deutschen Palästina-Vereins. 6: 102–149.
- Metrum und Rhythmus: Die Entstehung der arabischen Vermasse, 1896.
- Lieder der libyschen Wüste, 1899.
- "The Arabic press of Egypt", published in English in 1899.
- Der islamische Orient; Berichte und Forschungen (3 volumes, 1905–10).
- Chinesisch-Turkestan: Geschichte, Verwaltung, Geistesleben, und Wirtschaft, 1907.
- Der Islam: Geschichte -- Glaube -- Recht. Ein Handbuch, 1909.
- Islam, Mission, Politik, 1911.
- Zur Geschichte des Islam in China, 1921.[4]
References
edit- ^ a b Hartmann, Martin in: Neue Deutsche Biographie 7 (1966), S. 745 f.
- ^ German Orientalism: The Study of the Middle East and Islam from 1800 to 1945 by Ursula Wokoeck
- ^ شكيب, ارسلان (1932). حاضر العالم الاسلامي 2 (in Arabic). القاهرة: مطبعة عيسى البابي الحلبي. pp. 242–243.
- ^ Most widely held works about Martin Hartmann WorldCat Identities
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