Knut Sigurdson Vikør
Professor, historie
- E-postKnut.Vikor@uib.no
- Telefon+47 55 58 27 11+47 911 72 906
- BesøksadresseAHKRØysteins gt. 15000 BergenRom511
- PostadressePostboks 78055020 Bergen
- Shari'a
- Sufisme
- Saharas historie
- Islam i Afrika
Vikør arbeider med islamsk historie, særlig Nord- og Vestafrika 1700- og 1800-talet. Særlige fokus er på islamsk lov og på sufi-brorskap, begge sett i samfunnsmessig sammenheng.
Oversikt over Midtaustens historie (vårsemester)
Islam og politikk (haustsem.)
Fordjupning i Midtaustens historie
Vitenskapelig artikkel
- (2020). Ibadism and Law in Historical Contexts. Oñati Socio-legal Series. 960-984.
- (2018). Er Libya eit land? Babylon - Nordisk tidsskrift for Midtøstenstudier. 162-172.
- (2004). The truth about cats and dogs: The historicity of early Islamic law. Historisk Tidsskrift (Norge). 1-17.
- (1997). A Zanzibari Waqf of Books: the library of the Mundhiri family. Sudanic Africa - A Journal of Historical Sources. 1-21.
- (1996). Shi'ismen - historias lim. TFMS : Tidskrift för Mellanösternstudier. 79-93.
- (1996). A Zanzibari waqf of books: the library of the Mundhiri family. Sudanic Africa - A Journal of Historical Sources. 5-24.
- (1992). The Sanusi Letters: a checklist. Sudanic Africa - A Journal of Historical Sources. 149-162.
- (1991). The Man Who Believed in the Mahdi. Sudanic Africa - A Journal of Historical Sources. 29-52.
- (1990). Modernitet og tradisjon i islam. Tidsskrift for samfunnsforskning. 481-97.
- (1987). Ibn Idris and al-Sanusi - The Teacher and his Student. Islam et sociétés au Sud du Sahara. 70-82.
- (1987). Al-Sanusi and Qadhafi - Continuity of Thought? Maghreb Review. 25-28.
Faglig foredrag
- (2021). Reflections on the 2011 Arab Uprisings from Norway: Ten Years After.
Populærvitenskapelig foredrag
- (2018). Panelsamtale: Kva er det med Saudi Arabia?
- (2018). Panelsamtale: KRIG: Hvorfor Midtøsten.
- (2008). Islamsk lov i moderne stater i Midtøsten.
- (2007). The genesis of the Palestine problem and the creation of the State of Israel.
- (2007). Politisk islamisme.
- (2007). Milits, velferdsorganisasjon og parti: Historia til Hizballah.
- (2006). Kurdistans historie.
- (2006). Kulturkonflikt i middelalderen: Kva samfunn var det korstoga møtte i Midtausten?
- (2006). Jihad og velferd: Hamas og Hizballah.
- (2006). Folkereligiøsitet i Islam. Kva trur og tenker vanlige sunnier, shiaer og sufier?
- (2006). Eventyret om eventyra: 1001 natts historie.
- (2006). Clash of civilizations? Islam i vesten og den nye terrortrusselen.
- (1998). Politcal language, action and religion.
- (1998). Islamsk lov: Historia om slavinnas son.
- (1997). Jihad, ilm and tasawwuf�two justifications of action from the Idrisi tradition.
- (1997). Islamsk lov i eit ikkje-islamsk samfunn: kva er det?
- (1996). Sufism and revolt. Tijanis, Sanusis and Safavids.
- (1995). The development of ijtihad and Islamic reform, 1750-1850.
- (1995). The New Sufi Brotherhoods of the 19th Century.
- (1995). An attack on the freedom of interpretation: Hasan al-'Attar's Risala fi 'l-ijtihad.
- (1993). Muhammad b. Ali al-Sanusi- A Fasi graduate in the Central Sahara.
- (1992). Jihads in West Africa: A global theme in a regional setting.
- (1991). The Sanusiya, the Beduin and Sufi identity.
- (1990). Muhammad b. Ali al-Sanusi and three opponents of ijtihad.
Vitenskapelig foredrag
- (2021). New tariqas in the nineteenth century: What was “new” in their activities? The case of the Sanusiya.
- (2020). Contemporary Debates on Islamic Law.
- (2019). The Ibāḍī nahḍa and the integration into Sunni Algeria.
- (2019). Matrilineality among the Tuareg.
- (2019). Libya, Maghreb and the transition to statehood.
- (2019). Ibrāhīm Bayyūḍ’s legal opinions.
- (2018). Ibrāhīm Bayyūḍ and the Ibāḍī Nahḍa.
- (2018). Ibadism in Law and Historical Contexts.
- (2010). Issues of ijtihad in contemporary usul studies.
- (2008). Forskning på islam i Norge, i internasjonalt perspektiv.
- (2008). An Islamic enlightenment in the 19th century? Sufism, law and a German debate.
- (2007). Neo-Sufism or anti-madhhabism: How to describe the views of Muhammad b. 'Ali al-Sanusi.
- (2007). Liberal or conservative? Two Syrian views on “the woman between Shari'a and society".
- (1999). Sufism and social welfare in the Sahara.
- (1999). Sufi reform or takfir: Ahmad b. Idris and the Wahhabi debate.
- (1999). Mystikk og politikk: Sufismen som revolusjonært potensiale.
- (1999). Mellom Gud og stat: Shari'a frå dogme til lov.
- (1999). "The only madhhab is the Qur'an and Sunna": A nineteenth-century attack on legal method.
- (1998). The Shari'a and the nation state: who can codify the divine law?
- (1998). Muhammadan piety and Islamic enlightenment: Survey of a historiographical debate.
- (1991). A Sanusi treatise on jihad.
Anmeldelse
- (2022). Review of : Zachary V. Wright: Realizing Islam: The Tijaniyya in North Africa and the Eighteenth-Century Muslim World. (Chapel Hill 2020). Journal of Islamic Studies. 138-141.
- (2021). Review of: Francesco Piraino & Mark Sedgwick (eds.): Global Sufism: Boundaries, Structures and Politics. (London: Hurst & Company, 2019). Journal of Islamic Studies. 259-262.
- (2021). Melding av: Cecilie Hellestveit: Ulykkelige Arabia. Verden etter Jemen. (Oslo 2021). Klassekampen. 10-10.
- (2020). Review of Anver M. Emon & Rumee Ahmed (eds.): The Oxford Handbook of Islamic Law (Oxford 2018). Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies. 333-334.
- (2019). Review of: Ismail Warscheid, Droit musulman et société au Sahara prémoderne. La justice islamique dans les oasis du Grand Touat (Algérie) aux XVIIe – XIXe siècles. Leiden, Brill 2017. Cahiers d'Etudes Africaines. 1180-1184.
- (2019). Review of: Ayman S. Ibrahim, The Stated Motivations for the Early Islamic Expansion (622-641). A Critical Revision of Muslims’ Traditional Portrayal of the Arab Raids and Conquests. New York: Peter Lang, 2018. Social Sciences and Missions. 431-433.
- (2018). Review of: Ousmane Oumar Kane, Beyond Timbuktu. An intellectual history of Muslim West Africa, Cambridge MA, 2016. Islamic Africa. 127-129.
- (2018). Melding av: Bendik Sørvig, Syria: Den tapte revolusjonen. Oslo 2017. Klassekampen. 8-8.
- (2017). Review of: David S. Powers, Zayd. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press 2014. Journal of the American Oriental Society. 850-852.
- (2017). Review of: Charles C. Stewart, Arabic Literature of Africa. 5: The Writings of Mauritania and the Western Sahara. Leiden, Brill 2016. Islamic Africa. 232-236.
- (2017). Melding av: Cecilie Hellestveit, Syria: En stor krig i en liten verden. Oslo: Pax 2017. Dag og Tid. 28-29.
- (2016). Review of: Christian Müller, Der Kadi und seine Zeugen: Studie der mamlukischen Ḥaram-Dokumente aus Jerusalem. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz 2013. Journal of the American Oriental Society. 643-644.
- (2016). Melding av: Øystein Sørensen, Bernt Hagtvet, Nik. Brandal (red.), Islamisme. Ideologi og Trussel. Oslo: Dreyer 2016. Dag og Tid. 26-26.
- (2015). Melding av: Oddbjørn Leirvik, Islam og kristendom: Konflikt og dialog (Oslo 2014). Kirke og kultur. 198-201.
- (2014). Melding av Hilde Henriksen Waage, "Konflikt og stormaktspolitikk i Midtøsten", Oslo 2013. Historisk Tidsskrift (Norge). 364-367.
- (2013). Sufism: A Global History. Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies. 318-319.
- (2013). Review of: Nigel Green, Sufism: A Global History, Chichester 2012. Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies. 318-319.
- (2013). Review of: Jan Michiel Otto (ed.), Sharia Incorporated: A Comparative Overview of the Legal Systems of Twelve Muslim Countries in Past and Present. Leiden 2010. Islamic Law and Society. 330-332.
- (2012). Review of: Shamil Jeppie, Ebrahim Moosa and Richard Roberts (eds.), Muslim Family Law in Sub-Saharan Africa: Colonial Legacies and Post-colonial Challenges. Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press 2010. Islamic Law and Society. 324-326.
- (2011). The challenge of political Islam: non-Muslims and the Egyptian state. Islam and Christian-Muslim Relations. 370-U152.
- (2011). The Islamic judge of Iraq and the Abbasid state (132/750-334/945). Journal of the American Oriental Society. 176-178.
- (2011). Review of: Mathieu Tillier, Les cadis d’Iraq et l’état abbasside (132/750–334/945). Damas 2009. Journal of the American Oriental Society. 176-179.
- (2011). Review of Rachel M. Scott, The Challenge of Political Islam: Non-Muslims and the Egyptian State. Stanford 2010. Islam and Christian-Muslim Relations. 370-371.
- (2009). The Trans-Saharan Slave Trade. International Journal of Middle East Studies. 341-342.
- (2009). Rebel between Spirit and Law: Ahmad Zarruq, Sainthood and Authority in Islam, av Scott Kugle. Islamic Law and Society. 234-236.
- (2009). L’aventure ibāḍite dans le Sud tunisien (VIIIe–XIIIe siècle). Effervescence d'une région méconnue, av Virginie Prevost. Acta Orientalia. 223-226.
- (2008). A history of modern Libya. International Journal of Middle East Studies. 334-335.
- (2007). Melding av: Alessandra Vianello & Mohamed M. Kassim, eds., Servants of the Sharia: The Civil Register of the Qadis' Court of Brava 1893-1900. Leiden: Brill 2006. African Studies Review. 207-208.
- (2006). Melding av David Robinson, Muslim Societies in African History. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press 2004. Al-Masāq. 72-74.
- (2002). Melding av Youssef M. Choueiri, Arab Nationalism: A history. Oxford 2000. Political Studies. 440-441.
Vitenskapelig antologi/Konferanseserie
- (2004). Sudanic Africa (13, 2002): Fontes Historiae Africanae Bulletin of Information, Selected articles 1979-1987. Sudanic Africa.
Populærvitenskapelig artikkel
- (2019). Libya: Frå Qadhafi til Khalifa Haftar. Babylon - Nordisk tidsskrift for Midtøstenstudier. 52-56.
- (2019). Kronosentrisme. REPLIKK – Tidsskrift for samfunnsvitskap og humaniora. 47-47.
- (2016). Landprofil 2014-2015: Libya. Fellesrådet for Afrika. 1 sider.
- (2015). Boko Harams brutale historie. Bergens Tidende. 16-17.
- (2014). Fredelig val i Tunisia. Forsvarets forum. 52-52.
- (2013). Kvar går Syria. Forsvarets forum. 54-54.
- (2011). Hjartet i den arabiske verda. Levende Historie. 15-23.
- (2007). 'Den rette praksisen'–Sunnismen i islam. Religion og livssyn : Tidsskrift for religionslærerforeningen i Norge. 4-9.
- (2006). Fortolking i islamsk lov. Atrium, Studentmagasinet for HF-fakultetet, UIB. 42-43.
- (2006). Europeisk lov og islamsk lov. Babylon - Nordisk tidsskrift for Midtøstenstudier. 36-43.
- (1998). Algerie: kvifor valden? Syn og Segn. 172-179.
- (1995). Islamsk lov og reform i Afrika. 3. verden magasinet X. 24-25.
Kronikk
- (2016). Saudisk maktspråk. Stavanger Aftenblad. 1 sider.
- (2016). Maktkampen mellom sunni- og sjia. VG : Verdens gang. 1 sider.
- (2016). Alle mot alle. Bergens Tidende. 1 sider.
- (2015). “Islam og kristendom mykje det samme”. Stavanger Aftenblad. 42-42.
- (2015). Ikkje akkurat ein stat. Bergens Tidende. 45-45.
- (2014). Kan ikkje stoppast med bomber. Bergens Tidende. 55-55.
- (2013). Lov og rett i Dubai. Bergens Tidende. 1 sider.
- (2011). Libya: eit splitta land. Dagbladet. 72-73.
- (2011). Libya etter Gaddafi. Bergens Tidende. 34-34.
- (2011). Dei kristne i Midtausten. Bergens Tidende. 23-23.
- (2006). Kva skal reformeras? Klassekampen. 14-15.
- (2006). Eit pragmatisk parti. Klassekampen. 3-3.
- (2005). Når blir islamisme til jihad? Klassekampen. 3-3.
- (2004). Korleis "modernisera" islam? Ny tid. 18-19.
- (1999). Review of Eva Evers Rosander and David Westerlund (eds.), African Islam and Islam in Africa: Encounters between Sufis and Islamists, London 1997. British Journal of Middle Eastern Studies. 329-330.
- (1999). Er fatwaer farlige? Bergens Tidende. 30.
- (1999). Algerie: veg ut av tunnelen? Bergens Tidende. 28.
- (1998). Review of Samuel Decalo, "Historical Dictionary of Chad" (3rd edn), Lanham, MD 1997. International Journal of African Historical Studies. 486.
- (1998). Melding av: Jean-Louis Triaud, "La Légende noire de la Sanûsiyya. Une Confrérie musulmane Saharienne sous le regard français (1840-1930)", Paris 19. International Journal of African Historical Studies. 424-428.
- (1998). Melding av: Jakob Skovgaard-Petersen, "Defining Islam for the Egyptian State: Muftis and fatwas of the Dar al-Ifta". Leiden 1997. Chaos - Skandinavisk tidsskrift for religionshistoriske studier. 155-158.
- (1997). The 'Islamophile' Italians before Libya. Saharan Studies Association Newsletter. 6-7.
- (1997). Melding av: Sidi Amar Ould Ely / Julian Johansen, "Handlist of manuscripts in the Centre de Documentation et de Recheches Historiques Ahmed Baba, Timbuktu", i. London, 1995. British Journal of Middle Eastern Studies. 143-144.
- (1997). Melding av: Astrid Meier, "Hunger und Herrschaft. Vorkoloniale und frühe kolonale Hungerkrisen im Nordtschad", Stuttgart 1995. International Journal of African Historical Studies. 368-370.
- (1996). Melding av: Muhammad Khalid Masud, "Shatibi's Philosophy of Islamic Law", Islamabad 1995. Periodica Islamica. 41-42.
- (1996). Melding av Lars Erslev Andersen (ed.), Middle East Studies in Denmark,. British Journal of Middle Eastern Studies. 135-136.
- (1994). Melding av: Robert B. Charlick, Niger: Personal Rule and Survival in the Sahel. International Journal of African Historical Studies. 446-447.
- (1994). Melding av Albert Hourani, De arabiske folks historie. Klassekampen. 1.
Doktorgradsavhandling
- (2017). Kemalism and the Soviet Union. Ideological Transformations in Turkey and Problems of Interpretation, 1920-1970s.
- (1992). Sufi and Scholar on the Desert Edge. Muhammad b. Ali al-Sanusi (1787-1859).
Intervju
- (2011). Stoda i Libya.
- (2011). Stoda i Libya.
- (2007). –Totalt feilslått analyse.
- (2007). Ein kaotisk stat.
- (2006). Om shi’a og sunni i Irak.
- (2006). Om profetbilda.
- (2006). Om avrettinga av Saddam.
- (2006). Om Israels tilbaketrekking.
- (2006). Om 11. september.
- (2006). Kan ikke knekke Hamas.
- (2006). Frykter hardere klima for muslimer.
- (2005). Om valga i Irak.
- (2005). Om korsfarartida.
- (2005). Om folkerøystinga i Algerie.
- (2005). Intet nytt fra Østfronten.
- (2004). Om muslimar i Europa.
- (2004). Om Sharia.
Vitenskapelig Kapittel/Artikkel/Konferanseartikkel
- (2022). Pathways and Formations of ‘African Sufism’. 12 sider.
- (2020). Sufi Sultanates and Imamates. 10 sider.
- (2019). The Islamic Tradition: A History. 16 sider.
- (2019). Islamisme i Libyas opprør. 22 sider.
- (2019). Islamic Law: The Sources. 12 sider.
- (2018). Tripoli: Hovudstad for landet som braut sammen. 22 sider.
- (2018). Trade and Religion in the Central Sahara: The Ibāḍīs and Kawar. 11 sider.
- (2017). What's in a name? The third branch of Islam and its naming. 24 sider.
- (2017). Muslim Subjects and the Rights of God. 23 sider.
- (2016). Libya: The Failures of Success. 34 sider.
- (2016). Islamic Law in the Modern World: States, Laws and Constitutions. 18 sider.
- (2015). Sufism and colonialism. 21 sider.
- (2015). Inscrutable Divinity or Social Welfare? The Basis of Islamic Law. 18 sider.
- (2014). The Origins of the Sharia. 13 sider.
- (2014). Shari'a. 15 sider.
- (2014). Religious Revolts in Colonial North Africa. 17 sider.
- (2010). Sudan, Somalia and the Maghreb to the end of the First World War. 27 sider.
- (2006). The shaykh as mujtahid: A Sufi conception of ijtihād? (El šayḫ en el papel de muǧtahid: ¿una concepción sufí del iǧtihād?). 28 sider.
- (2004). Sufism and foreign rule in Africa: politics and piety. 20 sider.
- (2004). Ahmad b. Idris. 2 sider.
- (1999). Jihad i Vestafrika: et globalt tema i en regional tilstand. 22 sider.
- (1998). Politisk islam - fundament eller utvekst? 14 sider.
- (1997). Sahara Desert. 4 sider.
- (1996). Muhammad b. Ali al-Sanusi A Fasi graduate in the Central Sahara. 11 sider.
- (1995). Umar al-Mukthar. 2 sider.
- (1995). Sanusiyah. 2 sider.
- (1994). The Sanusiyya Tradition. 12 sider.
- (1993). Mystics in the Desert: The Sanusiya and the Sahara. 13 sider.
Leksikonartikkel
- (2020). Māʾ al-ʿAynayn. 97-99. I:
- (2020). The Encyclopedia of Islam: Three [2020].
- (2020). Muḥammad b. ʿAbd al-Karīm Sammān. 131-132. I:
- (2020). The Encyclopedia of Islam: Three [2020].
- (2020). Muḥammad al-Mukhtār al-Shinqīṭī. 129-130. I:
- (2020). The Encyclopedia of Islam: Three [2020].
- (2020). Majdhūb, Muḥammad. 137-138. I:
- (2020). The Encyclopedia of Islam: Three [2020].
- (2020). Maghreb from 1830. 84-88. I:
- (2020). The Encyclopedia of Islam: Three [2020].
- (2020). Idrīsiyya. 60-61. I:
- (2020). The Encyclopedia of Islam: Three [2020].
- (2020). Ibrāhīm al-Rashīd. 58-60. I:
- (2020). The Encyclopedia of Islam: Three [2020].
- (2019). Al-Fāshir. 32-33. I:
- (2019). The Encyclopedia of Islam: Three.
- (2018). Kawār. 147-148. I:
- (2018). The Encyclopaedia of Islam, Three 2018. 2018-2.
- (2018). Askiyā Muḥammad. 6-8. I:
- (2018). The Encyclopaedia of Islam, Three 2018. 2018-2.
- (2017). Bourguiba, Habib, Gaddafi, Colonel Muammar al-, Libya, Sanusiyah, Tunisia. 5 sider. I:
- (2017). The Cambridge Dictionary of Modern World History.
- (2016). Morocco. 740-745. I:
- (2016). Encyclopedia of Islam and the Muslim World, 2nd edn.
- (2015). Darb al-Araba'in. 1 sider. I:
- (2015). Encyclopedia of Islam - Three, vol 2015. 4.
- (2015). Bornu. 65-68. I:
- (2015). Encyclopedia of Islam - Three, vol 2015. 4.
- (2013). Dandarawiyya. 100-101. I:
- (2013). Encyclopedia of Islam III, vol IV.
- (2013). Bilma. 72-73. I:
- (2013). Encyclopedia of Islam III, vol IV.
- (2011). Chad. 113-117. I:
- (2011). Encyclopedia of Islam, Three, vol II.
- (2011). Bagirmi. 62-63. I:
- (2011). Encyclopedia of Islam, Three, vol II.
- (2010). Ahmadiyya-Idrisiyya. 42-45. I:
- (2010). Encyclopaedia of Islam - Three.
- (2009). Den arabiske våren. 3 sider. I:
- (2009). allkunne.no.
- (2008). Sanusi, Muhammad ibn Ali al-. 4:367-367. I:
- (2008). New Encyclopedia of Africa.
- (2008). Islam: Sufi orders. 3:59-62. I:
- (2008). New Encyclopedia of Africa.
- (2007). Jihad. 120-121. I:
- (2007). Statsvitenskapelig leksikon.
- (2007). Fatwa. 63-63. I:
- (2007). Statsvitenskapelig leksikon.
- (2006). Sudan. 3 sider. I:
- (2006). Medieval Islamic Civilization. An Encyclopedia.
- (2005). Kalifatet. 261-261. I:
- (2005). Aschehoug og Gyldendals store norske leksikon, 4. utg.
Se fullstendig oversikt over publikasjoner i CRIStin.
Sufi and Scholar on the Desert Edge. Muhammad b. 'Ali al-Sanusi and his Brotherhood. London og Evanston 1995
The Oasis of Salt. The History of Kawar, a Saharan Centre of Salt Production. Bergen/London 1999Ei verd bygd på islam. Oversikt over Midtaustens historie. 2. utg. Oslo 2004
Mellom gud og stat. Ei historie om islamsk lov og rettsvesen. Oslo 2003.
Islam: ei faktabok. 2. utg. Oslo 2006.
Maghreb - Nordafrika etter 1800. Oslo 2007
“Sufi Brotherhoods in Africa”, i N. Levtzion and R. Pouwels (red.), The History of Islam in Africa, Athens, OH 2000, 441-76.
“The Origins of the Shari'a” i P. Bearman og R. Peters (red.), The Ashgate Research Companion to Islamic Law, London 2014, 13-25.
“Religious Revolts in Colonial North Africa” i David Motadel (ed.), Islam and Empire, Oxford 2014, 170-86.
“Inscrutable Divinity or Social Welfare? The Basis of Islamic Law”, in Guttorm Fløistad (ed.), The Philosophy of Justice, Dordrecht 2014, 139-56.
“Sufism and Colonialism” in Lloyd Ridgeon (ed.), The Cambridge Companion to Sufism, Cambridge 2015, 212-32.
”Morocco”, in Richard C. Martin (ed.), Encyclopedia of Islam and the Muslim World, 2nd edn. New York 2016, ii, 740-45.
“Libya: The Failures of Success”, in Sverre Lodgaard (ed.), External Powers and the Arab Spring, Oslo 2016, 97-130.
“Islamic Law in the Modern World: States, Laws and Constitutions”, in Léon Buskens and Annemarie van Sandwijk (eds.), Islamic Studies in the Twenty-First Century. Transformations and Continuities, Amsterdam 205-22.
- The conception of ijtihad (legal formulation) in debates over method in the 18th and 19th centuries
- ”The Shari’a in the modern world: Faith, norms and state power”.
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Muslimske Afrikas historie
Nordafrikas historie
Islamsk lov
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