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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.<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=HnV8AgAAQBAJ&dq=%22Die+Welt+des+Islams%22+Hartmann&pg=PA170 German Orientalism: The Study of the Middle East and Islam from 1800 to 1945] by Ursula Wokoeck</ref><ref name=DB/>
== Reception of views ==
In his translation and commentary of [[Lothrop Stoddard]]'s ''The New World of Islam'' (1922), the [[Druze]] aristocrat and author [[Shakib Arslan]] took issue with Hartmann's criticism of [[Abdulhamid II]]'s dealings with China and ridiculed the view that Hartmann had expressed about a supposed [[Hadith]] which recommended not fighting the Turks, and which Hartmann considered to be an obvious forgery aiming to religiously discourage rebellion against the Turks.<ref name="ars">{{Cite book |last=شكيب |first=ارسلان |title=حاضر العالم الاسلامي 2 |publisher=مطبعة عيسى البابي الحلبي |year=1932 |location=القاهرة |pages=242–243 |language=ar}}</ref> Hartmann, who mastered both the Turkish and Arabic languages, had expressed a strong dislike for the Turks whom he considered to be a "dumb race"<ref name="Kram">{{Cite book |last=Kramer |first=Martin |title=Arab Awakening and Islamic revival - The Politics of Ideas in the Middle East 2 |publisher=Transaction Publishers |year=1996 |location=New Jersey |pages=65}}</ref> and had recommended that Arabs should ally with intellectually-similar races, namely the Greeks, Armenians, and some Albanians, in order to overthrow the rule of the Turks.<ref name="Kram2">{{Cite book |last=Kramer |first=Martin |title=Arab Awakening and Islamic revival - The Politics of Ideas in the Middle East 2 |publisher=Transaction Publishers |year=1996 |location=New Jersey |pages=76-80}}</ref> Several orientalists had identified the primacy of Turks over Arabs, which gradually began first in Baghdad in the late 9th century with the reign of the half-Turkic caliph [[al-Mutawakkil]] and culminated with the [[Mongol invasions and conquests|Tartar invasions]] which placed various Turkic [[Atabeg]]s ruling virtually everywhere in the Islamic world, as the beginning of the intellectual and civilizational decline of Islam.<ref name="ars2">{{Cite book |last=شكيب |first=ارسلان |title=حاضر العالم الاسلامي 2 |publisher=مطبعة عيسى البابي الحلبي |year=1932 |location=القاهرة |pages=13 |language=ar}}</ref> A view which was espoused by Hartmann as well who saw the rule of the Turks over Arabs as coinciding precisely with the beginning of the intellectual decline of Arabs.<ref name="Kram"/>
== Selected works ==
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