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Asianists --- Snouck Hurgronje, C. --- Netherlands --- Colonies --- History.

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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.

Islam --- Southeast Asianists --- History --- Snouck Hurgronje, C. --- Southeast Asianists.

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Asianists --- Goldziher, Ignác, --- Snouck Hurgronje, C. --- Netherlands --- Colonies --- History.

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Today's headlines are full of references to jihad and jihadists, but they're nothing new: a century ago, the entry of the Ottoman Empire into World War I was accompanied by a loud proclamation of jihad as well. This book resurrects that largely forgotten aspect of the war, investigating the background and nature of the proclamation, as well as its effects in the wider Middle East, the fears it stoked among German and British military leaders, and the accompanying academic debates about holy war and Islam.

World War, 1915-1918 --- Jihad. --- Snouck Hurgronje, C. --- Turkey --- History --- World War, 1914-1918 --- Holy war (Islam) --- Islamic holy war --- Jahad --- Jehad --- Muslim holy war --- Hurgronje, C. Snouck --- Snouck Hurgronje, Christiaan, --- Hurgronje, Christiaan Snouck, --- هورخرونيه، ك. سنوك --- Ottoman Empire --- War (Islamic law) --- World War (1914-1918) --- 1288-1999 --- Ottoman Empire, 1288-1918 --- islam --- middle east --- middle eastern and islamic studies --- world war I --- history --- jihad