Journal article
Seeking Arabs but looking at Indonesians: Snouck Hurgronje’s Arab lens on the Dutch East Indies
- Abstract:
-
Christiaan Snouck Hurgronje (1857-1936) was at his core an Arabist, rather than a scholar of Southeast Asia or even Islam in the Dutch East Indies. An Arab lens is evident in his early work on the Hijaz and in his later scholarship for the Dutch colonial government. Snouck Hurgronje’s work The Acehnese, in particular, evidenced a thoroughly comparative approach, verging at times on a focus outside of Southeast Asia, and throughout a preference for Arab orthodoxy. He found Indonesians to be in...
Expand abstract
- Publication status:
- Published
- Peer review status:
- Peer reviewed
Actions
Access Document
- Files:
-
-
(Version of record, pdf, 148.7KB)
-
- Publisher copy:
- 10.1080/19370679.2014.12023237
Authors
Bibliographic Details
- Publisher:
- Taylor and Francis Publisher's website
- Journal:
- Journal of Islamic and Middle East Studies (in Asia) Journal website
- Volume:
- 8
- Issue:
- 1
- Pages:
- 51-73
- Publication date:
- 2018-07-17
- DOI:
- EISSN:
-
2576-5957
- ISSN:
-
2576-5949
Item Description
- Keywords:
- Pubs id:
-
pubs:828446
- UUID:
-
uuid:cb583940-cbb4-4ad5-ae11-69d1ca79c51d
- Local pid:
- pubs:828446
- Source identifiers:
-
828446
- Deposit date:
- 2019-07-24
Terms of use
- Copyright holder:
- Shanghai International Studies University
- Copyright date:
- 2018
- Notes:
- © Shanghai International Studies University 2014. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
- Licence:
- CC Attribution (CC BY)
Metrics
If you are the owner of this record, you can report an update to it here: Report update to this record