Martin Hartmann (9 December 1851, Breslau – 5 December 1918,

Berlin Berlin is Capital of Germany, the capital and largest city of Germany, both by area and List of cities in Germany by population, by population. Its more than 3.85 million inhabitants make it the European Union's List of cities in the European U ...

) was a German orientalist, who specialized in

Islamic studies Islamic studies refers to the academic study of Islam, and generally to academic multidisciplinary "studies" programs—programs similar to others that focus on the history, texts and theologies of other religious traditions, such as Easter ...

. In 1875, he received his doctorate at the

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as a student of

Heinrich Leberecht Fleischer Heinrich Leberecht Fleischer (21 February 1801 – 10 February 1888) was a German Orientalist. Biography He was born at Schandau, Saxony. From 1819 to 1824, he studied theology and Oriental languages at Leipzig, subsequently continuing his st ...

. From 1876 to 1887 he served as a

dragoman A dragoman or Interpretation was an interpreter, translator, and official guide between Turkish-, Arabic-, and Persian-speaking countries and polities of the Middle East and European embassies, consulates, vice-consulates and trading posts. ...

at the German General Consulate in

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. From 1887 until his death in 1918 he taught classes at the Department of Oriental Languages in

.Hartmann, Martin
in: Neue Deutsche Biographie 7 (1966), S. 745 f. 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. The Arab author

Shakib Arslan Shakib Arslan ( ar, شكيب أرسلان, 25 December 1869 – 9 December 1946) was a Druze prince (amir) in Lebanon who was known as ' (Arabic for "Prince of Eloquence") because in addition to being a politician, he was also an influential writ ...

strongly criticized and pushed back against Hartmann for his views on Islam and his writings on the Muslims of China.

Selected works

* * ''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.Most widely held works about Martin Hartmann
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1851 births 1918 deaths Writers from Wrocław Leipzig University alumni German orientalists {{Germany-academic-bio-stub