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- catalog description "Hungarian orientalist, and the last pupil of Ignác Goldziher (1850-1921) who founded modern Islamic studies in Europe, Desomogyi (1899- ) left Hungary on Sept. 1, 1957. He worked in the Middle Eastern Department at Harvard from July 1, 1959 to 1960, taught at Brandeis, and was the leading expert on Kitab al-Hayawan by al-Damiri, an Arabic text on animals. He was one of the first scholars to investigate the economic history of Islam.".