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Horovitz, Josef



Josef Horovitz: Koranische Untersuchung
[Koranic Research] (1926)


Josef Horovitz
(1874-1931)


Josef Horovitz was a German Orientalist. Horovitz, the son of Marcus Horovitz, was born in Lauenburg, Germany. He studied at the University of Berlin with Edward Sachau and taught there from 1902. He worked in India from 1907 to 1914, teaching Arabic at the Muhammedan Anglo-Oriental College of Aligarh and serving as the curator of Islamic inscriptions for the Indian government. In this capacity he edited the collection Epigraphia Indo-Moslemica (1909–12). Some years after he had left India, Horovitz published Indienunter britischer Herrschaft (1928). Returning to Germany, he taught Semitic languages at the University of Frankfurt from 1914 to his death.


Select Bibliography:


  1. [Ed.]: Kumayt ibn Zayd al-Asadī, Die Hāšimijjāt des Kumait. Leiden: E.J. Brill, 1904.

  2. Das Athiopische Maccabaerbuch. Berlin: Walter de Gruyter, 1905.

  3. [with Friedrich Kern]: Spuren griechischer mimen im Orient. Berlin: Mayer & Müller, 1905.

  4. Epigraphia Indo-Moslemica: A list of the published Mohamedan inscriptions of India. Calcutta: Printed by Supdt. Govt. Printing, 1909-12.

  5. Koranische Untersuchungen. Berlin: Walter de Gruyter, 1926.

  6. Indien Unter Britischer Herrschaft. Berlin: Teubner Verlag, 1928.

  7. The Earliest Biographies of the Prophet and Their Authors. 1927-28. Ed. Lawrence I. Conrad. Studies in Late Antiquity and Early Islam. Princeton, NJ: Darwin Press, 2002.

  8. Studies on Early Islam. Ed. Lawrence I. Conrad. Studies in Late Antiquity and Early Islam. Princeton, NJ: Darwin Press, 2002.


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Al-Asadi Kumait Ibn Zaid & Josef Horovitz: Die Hasimijjat Des Kumait (1904)


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