In the Tradition or Outside? Reflections on Teachers and Influences
In this autobiographical essay, Martin van Bruinessen looks back at the diverse intellectual influences that contributed to his formation as a scholar of Indonesian Islam. He was never trained as an Indonesianist or a scholar of Islam, and came to the subject through a series of unplanned changes in his life trajectory. His first acquaintance with Indonesia was through late colonial and post-colonial Dutch literature. It was followed in his student days by critical reporting on the massacres of 1965-66 and a re-reading of Indonesian history from an anti-imperialist viewpoint. His formal academ... Mehr ...
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Dokumenttyp: | Artikel |
Erscheinungsdatum: | 2015 |
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Al-Jami'ah Research Centre
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Schlagwörter: | Indonesian Islamic Studies / Leiden tradition / scholarly reflection / genealogy / Dutch intellectual |
Sprache: | Englisch |
Permalink: | https://search.fid-benelux.de/Record/base-27025548 |
Datenquelle: | BASE; Originalkatalog |
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Link(s) : | https://aljamiah.or.id/index.php/AJIS/article/view/53103 |