Dr. N.J.G. (Nico) Kaptein
Position:
- Lecturer
- Islamic studies
| Telephone number: | +31 (0)71 527 2281 |
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| E-Mail: | n.j.g.kaptein@hum.leidenuniv.nl |
| Faculty / Department: | Faculteit der Geesteswetenschappen, Leiden Institute for Area Studies, SMES APT |
| Office Address: |
Johan Huizingagebouw Doelensteeg 16 2311 VL Leiden Room number 0.11D |
| Telephone number: | +31 (0)71 527 2727 |
| E-Mail: | n.j.g.kaptein@hum.leidenuniv.nl |
| Faculty / Department: | Faculteit der Geesteswetenschappen, Leids Instituut Godsdienstwetenschappen |
| Office Address: |
Witte Singel-complex Matthias de Vrieshof 1 2311 BZ Leiden |
Fields of interest
Relationship between Islam and local culture; Relations between the Middle East and South-East Asia in the religious domain; Dutch Islam policy in the Netherlands East Indies, focusing on the life and work of Sayyid `Uthmân (1822-1914) of Batavia (monograph in preparation); Islam in Indonesia
Curriculum Vitae
Teaching activities
I teach some introductory courses in Islamic Studies, like Introduction to the study of Islam and the course Introduction to Qur’an and Hadith. At the MA level I give a seminar on fatwas (religious advices) focussing on Indonesia. Moreover, I do a lot of thesis supervision, mainly on the MA and PhD level, related in Islam in Indonesia.
Publications
- “Southeast Asian Debates and Middle Eastern Inspiration: European Dress in West Sumatra at the Beginning of the Twentieth Century”, in: Eric Tagliacozzo (ed.), Southeast Asia and the Middle East: Islam, Movement, and the Longue Durée, Singapore: NUS Press/Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2009, pp. 176-195
- “Grateful to the Dutch government: Sayyid `Uthman and the Sarekat Islam in 1913”, in Anthony Reid and Michael Gilsenan (eds.), Islamic Legitimacy in a Plural Asia, London: Routledge, 2007, pp. 98-116.
- together with Michael Laffan (eds.), Fatwâs in Indonesia, theme issue Islamic Law and Society Vol. 12 no. 1, 2005 (Leiden: Brill).
- “The voice of the `ulamâ’: fatwas and religious authority in Indonesia”, in: Archives de Sciences Sociales des Religions, No. 125 (janvier-mars), 2004, pp. 115-130.
- together with Huub de Jonge (eds.), Transcending borders: Arabs, politics, trade and Islam in Southeast Asia, Leiden: KITLV Press, 2002.
- The Muhimmât al-nafâ'is: a bilingual Meccan fatwa collection for Indonesian Muslims from the end of the nineteenth century, introduced and presented by ..., Jakarta 1997 (= INIS Materials 32).
- "The berdiri mawlid issue among Indonesian Muslims in the period from circa 1875 to 1930", in: Bijdragen tot de Taal-, Land- en Volkenkunde 149-1 (1993), pp. 124-153.
- Muhammad's Birthday Festival: Early History in the Central Muslim Lands and Development in the Muslim West until the 10th/16th Century, Leiden: Brill, 1993
2010
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Kaptein, N.J.G. (2010)
Afscheid van Nasr Hamid Abu Zaid (1943-2010). ZemZem. Tijdschrift over het Midden-Oosten, Noord-Afrika en islam, 1
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Kaptein, N.J.G. & Azra, Azyumardi & van Dijk, Kees (Eds.) (2010)
Varieties of religious authority: changes and challenges in 20th century Indonesian Islam. Singapore: ISEAS Press.
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Kaptein, N.J.G. (2010)
“The Arabs in the Netherlands East Indies and the House of Orange”. In Robert M. Kerr and Thomas Milo, (Ed.) Writings and writing from another world and another era (Festschrift J.J. Witkam) (pp. 213-227). Cambridge: Archetype..
(Article in monograph or in proceedings)
2009
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Kaptein, N.J.G. (2009)
Arabophobia and the Aversion against the Tarekat: How Sayyid `Uthmân became advisor to the Netherlands colonial administration. In Ibrahim, Ibrahim, Shouk, Abu, Ibrahim, Hassan Ahmed (Eds.) Hadhrami Diaspora in Southeast Asia. Identity Maintenance or Assimilation? (pp. 33-44). Brill.
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Kaptein, N.J.G. (2009)
Southeast Asian Debates and Middle Eastern Inspiration: European Dress in West Sumatra at the Beginning of the Twentieth Century. In Tagliacozzo, Eric (Ed.) Southeast Asia and the Middle East: Islam, Movement, and the Longue Durée (pp. 176-195). SIngapore: NUS Press/Stanford, Stanford University Press.
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Kaptein, N.J.G. (2009)
The lament of an old man: Sayyid `Uthmân of Batavia (1822-1914) on cars. In Putten, Jan, van der & Kilcline Cody, Mary (Eds.) Lost Times and Untold Tales from the Malay World (pp. 283-289). Singapore: NUS Press.
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2008
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Kaptein, N.J.G. (2008)
Boekbespreking. [Bespreking van: Mystic Synthesis in Java: A History of Islamization from the Fourteenth to the early Nineteenth Centuries]. In: Bijdragen tot de Taal-, Land- en Volkenkunde, 164, pp. 320-321.
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Kaptein, N.J.G. (2008)
Boekbespreking. [Bespreking van: The Qur’an. The basics]. In: Bibliotheca Orientalis, LXV, pp. 812-813.
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Kaptein, N.J.G. (2008)
Sayyid `Uthmân: de adviseur. In Hoefte, Rosemarijn, Meel, Peter, Renders, Hans (Eds.) Tropenlevens: de (post)koloniale biografie (pp. 195-215). Amsterdam/Leiden: Boom/KITLV.
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Kaptein, N.J.G. (2008)
“Dit boek is de cumulatie van alles wat ik weet”. Een interview met Hadîth-geleerde Dr. G.H.A. Juynboll. SMES Nieuwsbrief 2008.2 (http://smesnieuws.weblog.leidenuniv.nl/2008/12/16)
(Contribution for newspaper or weekly magazine)
2007
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Kaptein, N.J.G. (2007)
'Abd al-Samad al-Pâlimbânî. Encyclopaedia of Islam (pp. 25-26). Leiden: Brill.
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Kaptein, N.J.G. (2007)
Boekbespreking. [Bespreking van: Arabophobia and the Aversion against the Tarekat: How Sayyid `Uthmân became advisor to the Netherlands colonial administration]. In: Bibliotheca Orientalis, LXIV, pp. 783-784.
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Kaptein, N.J.G. (2007)
Boekbespreking. [Bespreking van: Indian Ocean Migrants and State Formation in Hadhramaut: Reforming the Homeland]. In: Asian Journal of Social Science, 35, pp. 268-269.
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Kaptein, N.J.G. (2007)
Boekbespreking. [Bespreking van: The Cambridge Companion to the Qur'ân]. In: Bibliotheca Orientalis, LXIV, pp. 783-784.
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Kaptein, N.J.G. (2007)
Boekbespreking. [Bespreking van: Indian Ocean Migrants and State Formation in Hadhramaut: Reforming the Homeland]. In: Asian Journal of Social Science, 35, pp. 268-269.
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Kaptein, N.J.G. (2007)
Boekbespreking. [Bespreking van: Old Muslim Calendars of Southeast Asia]. In: Bijdragen tot de Taal-, Land- en Volkenkunde, pp. 163-164.
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Kaptein, N.J.G. (2007)
Grateful to the Dutch Government: Sayyid 'Utmân and the Sarekat Islam in 1913. In Reid, A. & Gilsenan, M. (Eds.) Islam Legitimacy in a Plural AsiaLondon: Routledge.
(Article in monograph or in proceedings)
2006
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Kaptein, N.J.G. (2006)
“Bericht uit Singapore”. Forum der Letteren, 7 (2006)
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2005
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Kaptein, N.J.G. & Laffan, M. (Eds.) (2005)
Fatwâs in Indonesia. Theme issue Islamic Law and Society vol. 12 no. 1. Leiden: Brill.
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Kaptein, N.J.G. (2005)
Introduction. In Kaptein, N.J.G. & Laffan, M. (Eds.) Fatwâs in Indonesia. Theme issue Islamic Law and Society vol. 12 no. 1 (pp. 1-8). Leiden: Brill.
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Kaptein, N.J.G. (2005)
Some early contributions to Arabic-Malay lexicography: Sayyid `Uthmân of Batavia (1822-1913) as a lexicographer. In Haji Omar, A. (Ed.) Malay Images (pp. 120-142). Tanjung Malim: UPSI.
(Article in monograph or in proceedings)
2004
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Kaptein, N.J.G. (2004)
Boekbespreking. [Bespreking van: Ramadan et Politique]. In: Bibliotheca Orientalis, LXI, pp. 418-419.
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Kaptein, N.J.G. (2004)
Boekbespreking. [Bespreking van: Managing Politics and Islam in Indonesia]. In: Bijdragen tot de Taal-, Land- en Volkenkunde, 160, pp. 380-381.
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Kaptein, N.J.G. (2004)
Boekbespreking. [Bespreking van: Malay Political Leadership]. In: Journal of Islamic Studies, 3, pp. 399-400.
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Kaptein, N.J.G. (2004)
De Nederlandse bijdrage aan de studie van de Indonesische islam van ongeveer 1975 tot heden. Sharqiyyât: Journal of the Dutch Association for Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies, 15 (1-2), pp. 199-220.
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Kaptein, N.J.G. (2004)
Mawlid: in the Maghrib. , Encyclopaedia of Islam (fasc.), 9-10. , pp. 613-614. Leiden: Brill.
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Kaptein, N.J.G. (2004)
Menemukan kembali kekayaan warisan Islam Indonesia: kasus Marâh Labîd karya Syaikh Nawawi Banten. In Muhamad Iqbal, A. Muhamed (Ed.) Yahudi & Nasrani dalam al-Quran: hubungan antaragama menurut Syaikh Nawawi Banten (pp. ix-xiii). Jakarta: Teraju.
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Kaptein, N.J.G. (2004)
Seasons. In: Dammen McAuliffe, J. (Ed.), Encyclopaedia of the Qur'ân, 4. , pp. 571-572. Leiden: Brill.
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Kaptein, N.J.G. (2004)
The Transformation of the Academic Study of Religion: Examples from the Netherlands and Indonesia. In Jabali, F. & Jamhari, (Eds.) Islam in Indonesia: Islamic Studies and Social Transformation (pp. 55-64). Montreal/Jakarta: Indonesia-Canada Islamic Higher Education Project.
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Kaptein, N.J.G. (2004)
The voice of the `ulamâ': fatwas and religious authority in Indonesia. Archives de Sciences Sociales des Religions, 125, pp. 115-130.
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2003
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Kaptein, N.J.G. (2003)
review of Rihlatul Asfar: otobiografi ? (1287 H ? 1363 H). [Bespreking van: Rihlatul Asfar: otobiografi ? (1287 H ? 1363 H)]. In: Archipel, 65, pp. 208-210.
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Kaptein, N.J.G. (Ed.) (2003)
Kekacauan dan kerusuhan: tiga tulisan tentang Pan-Islamisme di Hindia-Belanda. Timur pada akhir abad kesembilan belas dan awal abad kedua belas. Leiden/Jakarta: INIS.
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Kaptein, N.J.G. (2003)
bid'a. In: Martin, R.C. (Ed.), Encyclopaedia of Islam and the Muslim World, pp. 107-108. New York: Macmillan Reference USA.
(Part of book or chapter of book)
2002
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Kaptein, N.J.G. (2002)
Mevlud u vrijeme dinastije Fatimija. muallim, III (10), pp. 46-55.
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Kaptein, N.J.G. (2002)
The conflicts about the income of an Arab shrine: the Perkara Luar Batang in Batavia. In: Jonge, H., de & Kaptein, N.J.G. (Eds.), Transcending borders: Arabs, politics, trade and Islam in Southeast Asia, pp. 185-201. Leiden: KITLV press.
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Jonge, H., de & Kaptein, N.J.G. (2002)
Transcending borders: Arabs, politics, trade and Islam in Southeast Asia. Leiden: KITLV Press.
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Kaptein, N.J.G. (2002)
review of Howard M. Federspiel, Islam and ideology in the emerging Indonesian state: the Persatuan Islam. [Bespreking van: Islam and ideology in the emerging Indonesian state: the Persatuan Islam (PERSIS), 1923 to 1957]. In: Bijdragen tot de Taal-, Land- en Volkenkunde, 158, pp. 338-339.
(Book review)
2001
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Kaptein, N.J.G. (2001)
Fatwas as a unifying factor in Indonesian history. In: Meuleman, J.H. (Ed.), Islam in the Era of Globalization: Muslim Attitudes Towards Modernity and Identity (INIS Materials), 38. , pp. 99-107. Jakarta: INIS.
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Kaptein, N.J.G. (2001)
review of Moh. Taib Osman (ed.), Islamic Civilization in the Malay World. [Bespreking van: Islamic Civilization in the Malay World]. In: Bijdragen tot de Taal-, Land- en Volkenkunde, 157, pp. 193-195.
(Book review)
2000
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Kaptein, N.J.G. (2000)
Acceptance, approval and agression: some fatwas concerning the colonial adminstration in the Dutch East Indies. Al-Jami'ah. Jurnal Ilmupengetahuan Agama Islam, 38 (2), pp. 297-309.
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Kaptein, N.J.G. (2000)
Arabic influence on Malay linguistics. In: Auroux, S., Koerner, E.F.K., Niederehe, H.J., Versteegh, K. (Eds.), History of the Language Sciences, vol. I. , pp. 333-336. Berlijn/New York: Mouton De Gruyter.
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Kaptein, N.J.G. (2000)
Boekbespreking. [Bespreking van: Ein Leben mit dem Islam]. In: Bibliotheca Orientalis, 5/6, pp. 734-736.
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Kaptein, N.J.G. (2000)
Fatwas, moslims, christenen en de staat in Nederlands-Indie en Indonesie. Recht van de Islam, 17, pp. 15-35.
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Kaptein, N.J.G. (2000)
revieuw of Mark R. Woodward, Toward a new Paradigm. [Bespreking van: Toward a new paradigm; Recent developments in Indonesian Islamic thought]. In: Bijdragen tot de Taal-, Land- en Volkenkunde, 156, pp. 841-842.
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Kaptein, N.J.G. (2000)
review of Nasr Hamid Abu Zeid, Ein leben mit der Islam. [Bespreking van: Ein Leben mit der Islam]. In: Bibliotheca Orientalis, LVII, pp. 734-736.
(Book review)
1999
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Kaptein, N.J.G. (1999)
recensie. [Bespreking van: Hadrami Traders, Scholars, and Statesmen in the Indian ocean, 1750s-1960s]. In: Bijdragen tot de Taal-, Land- en Volkenkunde, 155, pp. 157-158.
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Kaptein, N.J.G. (1999)
recensie. [Bespreking van: Responses of Indonesian Muslim intellectuals to the concept of democracy (1966-1993)]. In: Bijdragen tot de Taal-, Land- en Volkenkunde, 155, pp. 286-288.
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Kaptein, N.J.G. (1999)
recensie. [Bespreking van: In the Vicinity of the Righteous. Ziyâra and the Veneration of Muslim Saints in late Medieval Egypt]. In: Bibliotheca Orientalis, LVI, pp. 782-784.
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Kaptein, N.J.G. (1999)
recensie. [Bespreking van: Catalogue of Malay, Minangkabau, and South Sumatran Manuscripts in the Netherlands]. In: Isim Newsletter, 4, p. 37.
(Book review)
1998
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Kaptein, N.J.G. (1998)
Islam en politiek in Nederlands Indië: een Islamitische heilbede voor Wilhelmina ter gelegenheid van haar inhuldiging. Indische Letteren, pp. 117-127.
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Kaptein, N.J.G. (1998)
Tarîka. Indonesia. In: NN, NN (Ed.), Encyclopaedia of Islam (vol. X), p. 257. NN: NN.
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Kaptein, N.J.G. (1998)
The Sayyid and the Queen: Sayyid 'Utmân on Queen Wilhelmina's inauguration on the throne of the Netherlands in 1898. Journal of Islamic Studies, 9 (2), pp. 158-177.
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Kaptein, N.J.G. (1998)
recensie. [Bespreking van: Islam: Essays on Scripture, Thought & Society: a Festschrift in Honour of Anthony H. Johns]. In: Bijdragen tot de Taal-, Land- en Volkenkunde, 154, pp. 662-665.
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Kaptein, N.J.G. (1998)
recensie. [Bespreking van: Nahdlatul Ulama, Traditional Islam and Modernity in Indonesia]. In: Bijdragen tot de Taal-, Land- en Volkenkunde, 154, pp. 493-495.
(Book review)
1997
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Kaptein, N.J.G. & Douwes, D. (Eds.) (1997)
Indonesia dan Haji. Jakarta: INIS.
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Kaptein, N.J.G. (1997)
Introductie and presentation. In: Kaptein, N.J.G. (Ed.), The Muhimmât al-nafâ'is: a bilingual Meccan fatwa collection for Indonesian Muslims from the end of the nineteenth century (INIS materials), 32. Jakarta: INIS.
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Kaptein, N.J.G. (1997)
Islam and Identity in Eastern Indonesia. [Bespreking van: Islam and Identity in Eastern Indonesia]. In: Journal of Southeast Asian Studies, 28, pp. 423-424.
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Douwes, D. & Kaptein, N.J.G. (1997)
Kata Pengantar. In: Douwes, D. & Kaptein, N.J.G. (Eds.), Indonesia dan Haji (INIS Materials), 30. , pp. xi-xiii. Jakarta: INIS.
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Kaptein, N.J.G. (1997)
Sayyid 'Uthmân on the legal validity of documentary evidence. Bijdragen tot de Taal-, Land- en Volkenkunde, 153 (1), pp. 85-102.
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Kaptein, N.J.G. (1997)
The Believers Revisited: V.S. Naipaul's New Islamic TraveloguePublished in Dutch. [Bespreking van: Meer dan Geloof]. In: IIAS newsletter, 14
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Kaptein, N.J.G. (1997)
The Muhimmat al-Nafa'is: A Bilingual Meccan Fatwa Collection for Indonesian Muslims from the End of the Nineteenth Century. Jakarta: INIS.
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Kaptein, N.J.G. (1997)
recensie. [Bespreking van: Medieval Jerusalem and Islamic Worship: Holy Places, Ceremonies, Pilgrimage]. In: Bibliotheca Orientalis, 54, pp. 235-237.
(Book review)
1996
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Kaptein, N.J.G. (1996)
recensie. [Bespreking van: Mecca: a literary history of the Muslim holy land]. In: Bibliotheca Orientalis, 53, pp. 565-566.
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Kaptein, N.J.G. (1996)
recensie. [Bespreking van: Golden Roads. Migration, Pilgrimage and Travel in Mediaeval and Modern Islam]. In: Bibliotheca Orientalis, 53, pp. 255-257.
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Kaptein, N.J.G. (1996)
recensie. [Bespreking van: The hajj: the Muslim pilgrimage to Mecca and the holy places]. In: Bibliotheca Orientalis, 53, pp. 253-255.
(Book review)
1995
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Kaptein, N.J.G. (1995)
Circumcision in Indonesia: Muslim or not? In: Platvoet, J.G. & Toorn, K., van der (Eds.), Pluralism and identity: studies in religious behaviour (Studies in the History of Religions), LXVII. , pp. 285-302. Leiden: Brill.
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Kaptein, N.J.G. (1995)
Circumcision in Indonesia: Musllim or Not? In: Toorn, K., van der & Platvoet, J.G (Eds.), Pluralism and Identity; Studies in Ritual Behaviour (Numen Book Series), 67. , pp. 285-302. Leiden: Brill.
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Kaptein, N.J.G. & Meij, D., van der (Eds.) (1995)
Delapan tokoh ilmuwan Belanda bagi pengkajian Islam Indonesia: kumpulan nekrologi di bawah redaksi ... Jakarta: NN.
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Kaptein, N.J.G. (1995)
Meccan Fatwas from the End of the Nineteenth Century on Indonesian Affairs. Studia Islamika. Indonesian Journal for Islamic Studies, 2 (4), pp. 141-160.
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Kaptein, N.J.G. (1995)
Meccan fatwâs from the end of the nineteenth century on Indonesian affairs. Studia Islamika. Indonesian Journal for Islamic Studies, 2 (4), pp. 141-160.
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Kaptein, N.J.G. & Stokhof, W.A.L. (1995)
Prof.Dr. H. Munawir Sjadzali, MA and Leiden University. In: Sulastomo, N. (Ed.), Kontekstualisasi Ajaran Islam. 70 Tahun Prof.Dr. H. Munawir Sjadzali, MA, pp. 445-451. Jakarta: NN.
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Kaptein, N.J.G. (1995)
The word setengah in Kitab-Malay. In: Baak, C., Bakker, M., Meij, D., van der (Eds.), Tales from a concave world; Liber amicorum Bert Voorhoeve, pp. 542-552. Leiden: NN.
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Kaptein, N.J.G. (1995)
recensie. [Bespreking van: Indonesian students in Cairo: Islamic education; perception and exchanges]. In: Bijdragen tot de Taal-, Land- en Volkenkunde, 151, pp. 453-455.
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Kaptein, N.J.G. (1995)
recensie. [Bespreking van: A Dictionary of Indonesian Islam]. In: Antara Kita, 44, pp. 8-10.
(Book review)
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