Weber’s account of Islamic law came secondhand from a colonial reformist

Evidence

Weber derived his understanding of Islamic law largely from the Dutch orientalist Snouck Hurgronje, who was closely involved with projects of law reform in colonial Indonesia. — Talal Asad, Formations of the Secular, 1041

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to the larger theme of how canonical scholarship inherits colonial knowledge-production, echoing Edward Said’s Orientalism.
• SHARE: Worth sending to the friend who studies Weber and colonial legal history — a neat provenance detail of a famous theory.