Vikør, Knut S., Professor

Professor of the History of the Middle East and Muslim Africa.

The items below are links in two sections of very unequal size:

Academic

First some links to on-line papers (some Norwegian, some English):

• The Man Who Believed in the Mahdi: article, 1991 (Sudanic Africa 2, 1991: w. M.I. Abu Salim)
• The Sanusi Letters: A checklist: article (Sudanic Africa 3, 1992)
• "Fundamentalisme, islamisme eller politisk islam?". Paper, 1995
• "The development of ijtihad and Islamic reform, 1750-1850". Paper, 1995.
• "The Shari'a and the nation state: who can codify the divine law?". Paper, 1998.
• A Tale of Three shambas: article (Sudanic Africa 10, 1999: w. A.K. Bang)
• "'The Truth about Cats and Dogs': A debate on the genesis of Islamic law". Paper, 2001.

Computers

The second, and way and beyond the largest, concerns computing, and in particular the use of Arabic on the Macintosh, and non-English languages on the Internet in general.

• The Arabic Macintosh Information Centre. Entry point to a number of texts on writing Arabic on the Mac.
• "Writing Arabic in Latin". On transliteration of Arabic text into Latin characters on computers, what it entails and how we do it on Macs (and a bit on PCs).
• A set of transliteration fonts (typestyles) for writing Arabic and other Middle Eastern languages in Latin characters, the "Jaghbub" fonts.
• The EudoraTables Emporium. Additions and filters that allow the Eudora email program to send and receive email in most languages of the world, from Lappish and Polish to Thai and Japanese. For Eudora/Mac.

   

• Satellite TV: a page on satellite television, written for the un-initiated.

Address
Knut S. Vikør
Dept. of Archeology, History, Cultural Studies and Religion,
University of Bergen
P.O. Box 7805
N-5020 Bergen
Norway
- Visiting address: Øisteinstgt. 1, 5th floor
Tel: +47-5558 2711, Fax: +47-5558 9654
E-mail: knut.vikor@ahkr.uib.no