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Seeking Arabs but looking at Indonesians: Snouck Hurgronje’s Arab lens on the Dutch East Indies

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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...

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10.1080/19370679.2014.12023237

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Institution:
University of Oxford
Division:
Humanities Division
Department:
History
Sub department:
International Development
Oxford college:
Brasenose College
Role:
Author
ORCID:
0000-0001-7690-5023
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
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EISSN:
2576-5957
ISSN:
2576-5949
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pubs:828446
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uuid:cb583940-cbb4-4ad5-ae11-69d1ca79c51d
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pubs:828446
Source identifiers:
828446
Deposit date:
2019-07-24

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