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 |
Reihe/Periodikum: | Al-Jami'ah: Journal of Islamic Studies, Vol 53, Iss 1, Pp 53-103 (2015) |
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State Islamic University Sunan Kalijaga
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Schlagwörter: | Indonesian Islamic Studies / Leiden tradition / scholarly reflection / genealogy / Dutch intellectual / Islam / BP1-253 |
Sprache: | Arabic Englisch Indonesian |
Permalink: | https://search.fid-benelux.de/Record/base-27407469 |
Datenquelle: | BASE; Originalkatalog |
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Link(s) : | https://doi.org/10.14421/ajis.2015.531.53-103 |