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IGNAZ See also: born in Stuhlweissenburg on the 22nd of See also: June 185o
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He was educated at the See also: universities of See also: Budapest, Berlin, See also: Leipzig and See also: Leiden, and became privat docent at Budapest in 1872
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In the next See also: year, under the auspices of the Hungarian See also: government, he began a journey through See also: Syria, See also: Palestine and See also: Egypt, and took the opportunity of attending lectures of See also: Mahommedan sheiks in the mosque of el-Azhar in Cairo
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He was the first Jewish See also: scholar to become professor in the Budapest University (1894), and represented the Hungarian government and the See also: Academy of Sciences at numerous See also: international congresses
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He received the large gold medal at the See also: Stockholm See also: Oriental Congress in 1889
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He became a member of several Hungarian and other learned See also: societies, was appointed secretary of the Jewish community in Budapest
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He was made Litt
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D. of Cambridge(19o4)and LL.D. of See also: Aberdeen (1906)
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His See also: eminence in the sphere of scholarship is due primarily to his careful investigationofpre-Mah'ommedan andMahommedanlaw,tradition, See also: religion and See also: poetry, in connexion with which he published a large number of See also: treatises, review articles and essays contributed to the collections of the Hungarian Academy
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Among his chief See also: works are: Beitrdge zur Literaturgeschichte der Schi'a (1874); Beitrage zur Geschichte der Sprachgelehrsamkeit bei den Arabern (Vienna, 1871–1873); Der Mythos bei den Hebraern and See also: seine geschichtliche Entwickelung (Leipzig, 1876; Eng. trans., R
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Martineau, See also: London, 1877) ; Muhammedanische Studien (See also: Halle, 1889-189o, 2 vols.); Abhandlungen zur arabischen Philologie (Leiden, 1896–1899, 2 vols.) Buch v
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