TY  - JOUR
PY  - 2019//
TI  - Useful Knowledge: Snouck Hurgronje and Islamic Insurgency in Aceh
JO  - Orbis
A1  - McFate, M.
SP  - 416
EP  - 439
VL  - 63
IS  - 3
N2  - Christiaan Snouck Hurgronje (1858-1936), a Dutch scholar of Islam, served as a "military anthropologist" during the Aceh war in the Dutch East Indies. The Acehnese fighters viewed their anti-colonial struggle against the Dutch as a jihad, construing themselves religious martyrs fighting "infidel invaders," and carrying out suicide attacks with a machete or dagger. To combat this insurgency Snouck Hurgronje, one of the first Westerners to visit Mecca and author of many books on Islam, developed the so-called "Aceh method," which became the basis of modern Dutch counterinsurgency strategy. This article addresses the question: what can we learn from the life and times of Snouck Hurgronje? © 2019<p /> <p>Language: en</p>
LA  - en
SN  - 0030-4387
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.orbis.2019.05.005
ID  - ref1
ER  -