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The Hungarian Orientalist, Ignác Goldziher, who studied the poetry and culture of Jahiliyya, took "jahl" here not to mean ignorance as opposed to knowledge, but rather to be opposed to "hilm" (Arabic: حلم) which means reasoning or intellect. Therefore, the period of Jahiliyya is not a period of lacking knowledge, rather it was the period of barbarism and rebellion, that is, violence, arrogance, selfishness, absurd talks, and the like. | The Hungarian Orientalist, Ignác Goldziher, who studied the poetry and culture of Jahiliyya, took "jahl" here not to mean ignorance as opposed to knowledge, but rather to be opposed to "hilm" (Arabic: حلم) which means reasoning or intellect. Therefore, the period of Jahiliyya is not a period of lacking knowledge, rather it was the period of barbarism and rebellion, that is, violence, arrogance, selfishness, absurd talks, and the like. | ||
Although Golziher's view was later put into doubt, and later translators of the Quran did not take his view into account when they translated the word "jahl" and its cognates, his research as well as newer researches about the Arabic culture before Islam provided material for later researchers. | Although Golziher's view was later put into doubt, and later translators of the Quran did not take his view into account when they translated the word "jahl" and its cognates, his research as well as newer researches about the Arabic culture before [[Islam]] provided material for later researchers. | ||
===Izutsu's view=== | ===Izutsu's view=== | ||