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Snouck Hurgronje and the study of Islam. (Met portret)

Bijdragen tot de taal-, land- en volkenkunde, 1957, Vol.113 (1), p.1-15 [Peer Reviewed Journal]

Copyright 1957 G.W.J. Drewes ;Copyright KITLV, Royal Netherlands Institute of Southeast Asian and Caribbean Studies 1957 ;ISSN: 0006-2294 ;EISSN: 2213-4379 ;DOI: 10.1163/22134379-90002300

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  • Title:
    Snouck Hurgronje and the study of Islam. (Met portret)
  • Author: Drewes, G.W.J
  • Subjects: Arabic language ; Biographies ; Civil service ; Commemorations ; Familiarity ; French language ; Islam ; Islamic law ; Literary criticism ; Malay ; Middle Eastern studies ; Muslims ; Mysticism ; Orientalism ; Scholars ; Studies ; Universities ; West Asian literature
  • Is Part Of: Bijdragen tot de taal-, land- en volkenkunde, 1957, Vol.113 (1), p.1-15
  • Description: [...]after his retirement he continued to live in Leiden until his death in 1936, still connected with the university with the special assignment to teach modern Arabic and Achehnese. First he stayed during half a year at Jiddah, the fore-court of the Holy of Holies, for in this port which SNOUCK HURGRONJE AND THE STUDY OF ISLAM. 9 is the gateway and the supply-port of Mecca it is possible to obtain important information concerning conditions in the holy city. [...]it was to a certain extent Huber's death which brought about the untimely end of Snouck's stay in Mecca, because the French vice-consul at Jiddah, who had hired a man exiled from Algiers to bring Huber's property which had been left in the interior to Jiddah, had the Paris daily Le Temps publish an exciting story concerning its detction. [...]of his growing familiarity with Indonesian Islam he had come to appreciate more and more the importance of popular mysticism; he discusses it extensively in the second volume of his Achehnese, especially the spiritual exerciss of the mystical orders which had degenerated into popular amusements.
  • Publisher: Netherlands: Brill
  • Language: English
  • Identifier: ISSN: 0006-2294
    EISSN: 2213-4379
    DOI: 10.1163/22134379-90002300
  • Source: Brillonline Open Access Journals
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    Alma/SFX Local Collection

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