Ignaz Goldziher's correspondence in the framework of his collaboration on the book Le livre de Mohammed Ibn Toumert mahdi des almohades [Dataset]

[EN] This Dataset consists of a catalogue and transcriptions of the correspondence that Ignaz Goldziher (1850-1921) received between 1901 and 1903 in the framework of his collaboration on the book Le livre de Mohammed Ibn Toumert mahdi des almohades, published in 1903 in Algiers and promoted by the French colonial administration. The book contained the first edition of the collected writings attributed to the founder of the Almohad movement, Ibn Tūmart (d. 524/1130). The edition of the Arabic text was prepared by Jean-Dominique Luciani (1851–1932) and Goldziher contributed an introduction of some 100 pages. Goldziher wrote his text in German. Its translation was commissioned to two French orientalists: first to Edmond Doutté (1857-1926), who at some point had to withdraw from the task because of health issues, and then to Maurice Gaudefroy-Demombynes (1862-1957), who prepared the translation that was finally published. In addition, René Basset (1855-1924), professor at the École supérieure des Lettres in Algiers, refers in some of his letters to Goldziher to the work on the book. The letters Goldziher received in the framework of his collaboration are preserved in the Library of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, and digital reproductions of the documents are available in the library's digital repository.