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

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 Acehn...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Fogg, K
Format: Journal article
Published: Taylor and Francis 2018