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Christiaan Snouck Hurgronje (8 February 1857 – 26 June 1936) was a Dutch scholar of oriental cultures and languages and advisor on native affairs to the colonial government of the Netherlands East Indies. Born in 0osterhout in 1857.<\/p>\n

He became a theology student at Leiden University in 1874. He received his doctorate at Leiden in 1880 with his dissertation \u2018Het Mekkaansche Feest\u2019 (\u201cThe Festivities of Mecca\u201d). He became a professor at the Leiden School for Colonial Civil Servants in 1881.
\nSnouck, who was fluent in Arabic, through mediation with the Ottoman governor in Jeddah, was examined by a delegation of scholars from Mecca in 1884 and upon successfully completing the examination was allowed to commence a pilgrimage to the Holy Muslim city of Mecca in 1885. He was one of the first Western scholars of Oriental cultures to do so.<\/p>\n

A pioneering traveler, he was a rare Western presence in Mecca, but embraced the culture and religion of his hosts with passion, converting to Islam under the name Haje Abdul Ghaffar.
\nIn 1889 he became professor of Malay at Leiden University and official advisor to the Dutch government on colonial affairs. He wrote more than 1,400 papers on the situation in Atjeh and the position of Islam in the Dutch East Indies, as well as on the colonial civil service and nationalism.
\nAs the adviser of J. B. van Heutsz, he took an active role in the final part (1898-1905) of the Aceh War (1873-1913). He used his knowledge of Islamic culture to devise strategies which significantly helped crush the resistance of the Aceh inhabitants and impose Dutch colonial rule on them.<\/p>\n

His success in the Aceh War earned him influence in shaping colonial administration policy throughout the rest of Indonesia, however deeming his advise insufficiently implemented he returned to the Netherlands in 1906. Back in the Netherlands Snouck continued a successful academic career.<\/p>\n

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