Includes bibliographical references and index.

Preliminary Material -- Copyright page -- List of Illustrations 1 -- Notes on Contributors -- Notes on Transliteration, Names and Dates -- Chapter 1 Chris, Christiaan, Snouck, Snouck Hurgronje, ʿAbd al-Ghaffar, the Master. Images of a Scholar in Action / Léon Buskens and Annemarie van Sandwijk -- Chapter 2 Christiaan Snouck Hurgronje. Lives and afterlives / Jan Just Witkam -- Chapter 3 The Correspondence between Nöldeke and De Goeje on Christiaan Snouck Hurgronje / Daniël van der Zande -- Chapter 4 Urban Life in Late Ottoman, Hashemite, and Early Saudi Jeddah, as Documented in the Photographs in the Snouck Hurgronje Collection in Leiden / Ulrike Freitag -- Chapter 5 Mekka as an Ethnographic Text: How Christiaan Snouck Hurgronje Lived and Constructed Daily Life in Arabia 1 / Léon Buskens and Jean Kommers -- Chapter 6 Snouck Hurgronje and Pan-Islamism / Gerard van Krieken -- Chapter 7 Snouck Hurgronje and the Colonial Administration of the Dutch East Indies / Wim van den Doel -- Chapter 8 Snouck Hurgronje, Shariʿa, and the Anthropology of Islam / John Bowen -- Chapter 9 The Scholar and the War-Horse. The Aceh War, Snouck Hurgronje, and Van Heutsz / Kees van Dijk -- Chapter 10 From Wayfarer to Wedono . Snouck Hurgronje and the Sufi Threat on Java, 1884-1892 / Michael Laffan -- Chapter 11 “My Dear Professor ʿAbd al-Ghaffar”: The Letters of Sayyid ʿUthman to C. Snouck Hurgronje as a Reflection of Their Relationship / Nico J.G. Kaptein -- Chapter 12 Law School and Racial Prejudice / Cees Fasseur -- Chapter 13 Recordings of Indonesian Music and Speech in the Snouck Hurgronje Collection (1905-1909) in Leiden. Preliminary Remarks / Wim van Zanten -- Chapter 14 Christiaan Snouck Hurgronje in Istanbul (1908): Letters and an Unknown Diary Preserved in the Leiden University Library / Jan Schmidt -- Chapter 15 Snouck Hurgronje and the Indonesian Students in Leiden / Willem Otterspeer -- Chapter 16 Snouck Hurgronje and the Study of Islam / G.W.J. Drewes -- Chapter 17 The Scientific Work of Snouck Hurgronje / Johannes Pedersen -- Chapter 18 Orientalist or Master Spy: The Career of Christiaan Snouck Hurgronje / Peter Hamburger -- Chapter 19 Before Mecca. The Jeddah ‘Diary’ of Christiaan Snouck Hurgronje, 1884–1885 -- Chapter 20 Meccan voices. Proverbs and sayings from Mecca. Collected and explained by Christiaan Snouck Hurgronje -- Index 1.

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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