Winter was the author of a brochure on Javanese Mohammedan matters cited by C. Snouck Hurgronje in his critical discussions of Mr. van den Berg’s writings on the law of marriage and divorce in the Netherlands-Indian Archipelago. He is one of a number of nineteenth-century European scholars of Java whose work Snouck Hurgronje draws upon, qualifies, or supplements in the course of The Achehnese.
In his account of the wali’s authorization at Mohammadan marriages, Snouck Hurgronje observes that the practice in Java is the same in essentials as that which prevails throughout the rest of the East Indian Archipelago and indeed in Arabia. He notes that Mr. van den Berg “clearly made his first acquaintance with these matters quite recently from Winter’s brochure and the dictionaries of de Wilde and Coolsma” — and from these sources drew conclusions that Snouck Hurgronje finds “entirely unwarrantable”, especially the claim that the role of the so-called “priests” at Mohammedan marriages in other countries has an absolutely different significance from what it has in Java and Madura. Winter’s brochure, while a useful early source, is thus shown to have been inadequate for the wider comparative conclusions that van den Berg attempted to draw from it.
Winter is also cited in the discussion of the khul’ (the wife’s purchase of a talaq divorce from her husband), where Snouck Hurgronje observes that van den Berg failed to understand why Winter applied the term khul’ to the temporary divorce of a wife brought into practice by the princes of Java when they wished to wed a concubine with child. The Javanese princely practice, as Winter correctly perceived, chose the khul’ method as the only one that combined the power of eventual remarriage with immediate separation.
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The Achehnese, Vol. I, by Dr. C. Snouck Hurgronje, translated by A.W.S. O’Sullivan, indexed by R.J. Wilkinson. Leyden: E.J. Brill, 1906.
Winter was the author of a brochure on Javanese Mohammedan matters cited by C. Snouck Hurgronje in his critical discussions of Mr. van den Berg’s writings on the law of marriage and divorce in the Netherlands-Indian Archipelago. He is one of a number of nineteenth-century European scholars of Java whose work Snouck Hurgronje draws upon, qualifies, or supplements in the course of The Achehnese.
In his account of the wali’s authorization at Mohammadan marriages, Snouck Hurgronje observes that the practice in Java is the same in essentials as that which prevails throughout the rest of the East Indian Archipelago and indeed in Arabia. He notes that Mr. van den Berg “clearly made his first acquaintance with these matters quite recently from Winter’s brochure and the dictionaries of de Wilde and Coolsma” — and from these sources drew conclusions that Snouck Hurgronje finds “entirely unwarrantable”, especially the claim that the role of the so-called “priests” at Mohammedan marriages in other countries has an absolutely different significance from what it has in Java and Madura. Winter’s brochure, while a useful early source, is thus shown to have been inadequate for the wider comparative conclusions that van den Berg attempted to draw from it.
Winter is also cited in the discussion of the khul’ (the wife’s purchase of a talaq divorce from her husband), where Snouck Hurgronje observes that van den Berg failed to understand why Winter applied the term khul’ to the temporary divorce of a wife brought into practice by the princes of Java when they wished to wed a concubine with child. The Javanese princely practice, as Winter correctly perceived, chose the khul’ method as the only one that combined the power of eventual remarriage with immediate separation.
See Also
Source
The Achehnese, Vol. I, by Dr. C. Snouck Hurgronje, translated by A.W.S. O’Sullivan, indexed by R.J. Wilkinson. Leyden: E.J. Brill, 1906.