Orientalists manufactured the adat-Shariʿa duality Indonesians had never seen

Evidence

Snouck’s “discovery” of adat, and van Vollenhoven’s elevation of the study of this discovery into a “science,” in effect opened a Pandora’s box within the political and legal life of Indonesia that has not been closed to this day. — Wael Hallaq, Restating Orientalism, 251 (#corroborates, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Dutch Orientalism fabricated a legal duality still unresolved in Indonesia — Wael Hallaq, Restating Orientalism: A Critique of…, 251; Orientalist scholarship produced knowledge about the Orient that Orientals themselves did not possess — Edward W. Said, Orientalism, 341

Broader Connections

• Dutch Orientalism fabricated a legal duality still unresolved in Indonesia #corroborates (0.98) — Wael Hallaq, Restating Orientalism, 251