Ignaz Goldziher (June 22, 1850 - 1921), was a Jewish Hungarian orientalist.

Born in Stuhlweissenburg, he was educated at the universities of Budapest, Berlin, Leipzig and Leiden, and became privatdozent at Budapest in 1872. In the next year, under the auspices of the Hungarian government, he began a journey through Syria, Palestine and Egypt, and took the opportunity of attending lectures of Muslim sheiks in the mosque of el-Azhar in Cairo.

He was the first Jewish scholar to become professor in Budapest University (1894), and represented the Hungarian government and the Academy of Sciences at numerous international congresses. He received the large gold medal at the Stockholm Oriental Congress in 1889. He became a member of several Hungarian and other learned societies, was appointed secretary of the Jewish community in Budapest. He was made Litt. D. of Cambridge (1904) and LL.D. of Aberdeen (1906). His eminence in the sphere of scholarship is due primarily to his careful investigation of pre-Islamic and Islamic law, tradition, religion and poetry, in connection with which he published a large number of treatises, review articles and essays contributed to the collections of the Hungarian Academy.

Among his chief works are:

• Beiträge zur Literaturgeschichte der Shi'a (1874)
• Beiträge zur Geschichte der Sprachgelehrsamkeit bei den Arabern (Vienna, 1871-1873)
• Der Mythos bei den Hebyhern und seine geschichtliche Entwickelung (Leipzig, 1876; Eng. trans., R Martineau, London, 1877)
• Muhammedanische Studien (Halle, 1889-1890, 2 vols.)
• Abhandlungen zur arabischen Philologie (Leiden, 1896-1899, 2 vols.)
• Buch v. Wesen d. Seele (ed. 1907).

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