Scholarship in Action: Essays on the Life and Work of Christiaan Snouck Hurgronje (1857-1936)

The Dutch scholar Christiaan Snouck Hurgronje (1857–1936) was one of the most famous orientalists of his time. He acquired early fame through his daring research in Mecca in 1884-85, masterly narrated in two books and accompanied by two portfolios of photographs. As an adviser to the colonial govern...

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description The Dutch scholar Christiaan Snouck Hurgronje (1857–1936) was one of the most famous orientalists of his time. He acquired early fame through his daring research in Mecca in 1884-85, masterly narrated in two books and accompanied by two portfolios of photographs. As an adviser to the colonial government in the Dutch East Indies from 1889 until 1906, he was on horseback during campaigns of “pacification” and published extensively on Indonesian cultures and languages. Meanwhile he successively married two Sundanese women with whom he had several children. In 1906 he became a professor in Leiden and promoted together with colleagues abroad the study of modern Islam, meant to be useful for colonial purposes. Despite his considerable scholarly, political, and cultural influence in the first decades of the twentieth century, nowadays Snouck Hurgronje has been almost forgotten outside a small circle of specialists, since he mainly published in Dutch and German. The contributors to this volume each offer new insights about this enigmatic scholar and political actor who might be considered a classic proponent of “orientalism.” Their detailed studies of his life and work challenge us to reconsider common views of the history of the study of Islam in European academia and encourage a more nuanced “post-orientalist” approach with ample attention for cooperation, exchange, and hybridization.
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spelling doab-20.500.12854ir-1331612025-07-17T10:00:13Z Scholarship in Action: Essays on the Life and Work of Christiaan Snouck Hurgronje (1857-1936) Buskens, Léon Witkam, Jan Just van Sandwijk, Annemarie Mecca Dutch East Indies pacification orientalism post-orientalist thema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NH History::NHG Middle Eastern history thema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NH History::NHG Middle Eastern history The Dutch scholar Christiaan Snouck Hurgronje (1857–1936) was one of the most famous orientalists of his time. He acquired early fame through his daring research in Mecca in 1884-85, masterly narrated in two books and accompanied by two portfolios of photographs. As an adviser to the colonial government in the Dutch East Indies from 1889 until 1906, he was on horseback during campaigns of “pacification” and published extensively on Indonesian cultures and languages. Meanwhile he successively married two Sundanese women with whom he had several children. In 1906 he became a professor in Leiden and promoted together with colleagues abroad the study of modern Islam, meant to be useful for colonial purposes. Despite his considerable scholarly, political, and cultural influence in the first decades of the twentieth century, nowadays Snouck Hurgronje has been almost forgotten outside a small circle of specialists, since he mainly published in Dutch and German. The contributors to this volume each offer new insights about this enigmatic scholar and political actor who might be considered a classic proponent of “orientalism.” Their detailed studies of his life and work challenge us to reconsider common views of the history of the study of Islam in European academia and encourage a more nuanced “post-orientalist” approach with ample attention for cooperation, exchange, and hybridization. 2024-01-19T05:54:28Z 2024-01-19T05:54:28Z 2024-01-18T17:13:03Z 2022 book ONIX_20240118_9789004513617_24 OCN: 1394005126 https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/87102 9789004513617 9789004513594 https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/133161 eng open access image/png image/jpeg image/jpeg n/a n/a n/a https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/87102/1/9789004513617.pdf https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/87102/1/9789004513617.pdf https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/87102/1/9789004513617.pdf Brill 10.1163/9789004513617 10.1163/9789004513617 33fecb33-e7c4-4fc8-96b0-7ba2fccafba9 9789004513617 9789004513594 open access
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Scholarship in Action: Essays on the Life and Work of Christiaan Snouck Hurgronje (1857-1936)
title Scholarship in Action: Essays on the Life and Work of Christiaan Snouck Hurgronje (1857-1936)
title_full Scholarship in Action: Essays on the Life and Work of Christiaan Snouck Hurgronje (1857-1936)
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title_full_unstemmed Scholarship in Action: Essays on the Life and Work of Christiaan Snouck Hurgronje (1857-1936)
title_short Scholarship in Action: Essays on the Life and Work of Christiaan Snouck Hurgronje (1857-1936)
title_sort scholarship in action essays on the life and work of christiaan snouck hurgronje 1857 1936
topic Mecca
Dutch East Indies
pacification
orientalism
post-orientalist
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