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Christiaan Snouck Hurgronje () was a great scholar who mastered sixteen languages, learnt oriental cultures seriously and described them.

Snouck Hurgronje's was a special life indeed.

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This study focuses on a controversial issue about Christiaan Snouck Hurgronje's family that was left in the Dutch East Indies in the early twentieth century.

Christiaan Snouck Hurgronje () was one of the most famous orientalists of the first decades of the twentieth century.

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J.J. Witkam, Christiaan Snouck Hurgronje. Lives and afterlives

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As a young professor of Islamic law and religion at the University of Leiden he conceived the notion of verifying some of his ideas at the Muslim religious.

Lives and afterlives Jan Just Witkam 1 Introduction ‘A complete scholarly life’ is how Snouck Hurgronje’s life has been characterized in a recent biography.1 It deals with the great man’s eventful life and his almost equally fascinating afterlife, and it does so with scholarly distance and with an eye for the interesting detail.

Snouck Hurgronje’s was a special life indeed. In his travels from Europe to Mecca, to Java, to Aceh, and back to Europe again, with a short return trip to North America, he wrote profusely about what he had seen and experienced, and about his ideals in the world at large, all the time developing his linguistic skills and ethnographic talents, and not only giving expression to his political impulses, but also leading a private life in pursuit of happiness.

It was a life lived by an artist of chiaroscuro, by someone who wanted to be in the limelight but who a