The New Turn to Mecca

Taking the extensive Java notebooks of Christiaan Snouck Hurgronje (1857-1936) as a lens, this essay discusses the globalising forms being adopted in Java’s Islamic schools in the late nineteenth century. Snouck Hurgronje’s notes reveal a self-conscious transition towards the consumption of printed...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Michael Laffan
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Université de Provence 2008-11-01
Series:Revue des Mondes Musulmans et de la Méditerranée
Online Access:http://journals.openedition.org/remmm/6022