Christiaan Snouck Hurgronje on Makkah as a centre of pan-Islamism and anticolonialism

Spahic, Omer (2022) Christiaan Snouck Hurgronje on Makkah as a centre of pan-Islamism and anticolonialism. IIUM Journal of Religion and Civilisational Studies, 5 (1). pp. 66-97. E-ISSN 2637-112X

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Abstract

This article discusses Christiaan Snouck Hurgronje’s views on Makkah as a centre of pan-Islamism and anticolonialism. The discussion is set against the backdrop of the insatiable Western appetite for colonization and imperialism during the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Hurgronje was an active protagonist in the developments. Apart from being a leading Orientalist, he was also an advisor to the Dutch government for its colonization project in the Dutch East Indies. To European colonial powers with Muslim subjects, Makkah had become a safe haven for religious fundamentalist activities. With its hajj pilgrimage, it became the nucleus, and epitome, of the ideology of pan-Islamism. The city was seen as a place from where pan-Islamic ideas could unhindered radiate all over the Muslim world, posing a serious and inaccessible threat. Hurgronje, therefore, studied Islam, with specific interest on Makkah and hajj, in order to create at once an ideological and operational blueprint for knowing the enemies and for prevailing over, as well as controlling, them.

Item Type:	Article (Journal)
Uncontrolled Keywords:	Christiaan Snouck Hurgronje, Makkah, hajj, pan-Islamism, colonization
Subjects:	A General Works > AZ History of Scholarship The Humanities
Kulliyyahs/Centres/Divisions/Institutes (Can select more than one option. Press CONTROL button):	Kulliyyah of Islamic Revealed Knowledge and Human Sciences > Department of History & Civilization Kulliyyah of Islamic Revealed Knowledge and Human Sciences
Depositing User:	Omer Spahic
Date Deposited:	30 Jun 2022 10:53
Last Modified:	30 Jun 2022 10:54
URI:	http://irep.iium.edu.my/id/eprint/98584

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