Uriel Heyd's contribution to the study of the legal, religious, cultural, and political history of the Ottoman empire and modern Turkey
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 19397253 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Aharon Layish (Hebrew University of Jerusalem, corresponding author) |
| Year | 1982 |
| Volume | 9 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 35-54 |
| Publication date | 1982-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | British Society for Middle Eastern Studies Bulletin (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0305-6139 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/13530198208705334 |
| OpenAlex | W1991159144 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 14 |
Uriel Heyd (previously, Heydt) was born on 26 July 1913, in Cologne (Germany).1 With the encouragement of his mother, who, after his father's death, wished him to train for management of the family business -a factory -Uriel read law and economics for five terms at the universities of Cologne, Munich, Heidelberg and Berlin. The combination of those two disciplines was a compromise between his duty to the family and his analytical cast of mind. But forces stronger than he deflected him from this course, although his legal studies proved very helpful to him at a later stage of his career. While still at secondary school, he learnt Hebrew and contemplated emigrating to Palestine. As an undergraduate in Germany, he began to learn Arabic, realizing that this was essential for anyone who wished to integrate into the Middle East. The first stimulus to oriental studies, and especially the study of Turkish and Persian, was given to him by his uncle, the orientalist Dr Kurt Levy, an assistant to the noted Professor Paul Kahle at Bonn University in the thirties.2 In 1935 Dr Levy, under the impact of the events of those years, committed suicide at the age of twenty-eight. One year before, in 1934, Uriel Heyd had gone to Palestine as an immigrant. There he studied Islamic culture, Arabic language and literature and the history of Palestine at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. His teachers and mentors at this university were Professors G.Weil, L.A.Mayer and S.D.Goitein. On the basis of research done in Jerusalem, at the American University of Beirut and at the archives of the Chamber of Commerce in Marseilles, he wrote his M.A. thesis: Dahir al-tUmar, the Ruler of Galilee in the 18th Century, 3 which he submitted to the Hebrew University, and in 1938 he took his M.A. degree (with first-class honours)
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| Unique citing works | 1 |
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| Citations per year | 0,04 |
| Citation span | 1999 - 1999 (1) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 1 |