Knut Vikør
{{short description|Norwegian historian and university professor}}
Knut Sigurdson Vikør (born June 10, 1952) is a Norwegian historian and a professor of history at the University of Bergen.{{Cite web|url=https://forskning.no/krig-og-fred-ntb/midtosten-ekspert-advarer-om-at-situasjonen-i-libya-kan-bli-svaert-alvorlig/1324140|title=Midtøsten-ekspert advarer om at situasjonen i Libya kan bli svært alvorlig|last=ntb|first=Oda Ertesvåg|date=2019-04-08|website=forskning.no|language=no|access-date=2019-12-03}}{{Cite web|url=https://www.vg.no/i/79nR4|title=Professor: Kan bli krig mellom Assad og kurderne i Syria|website=www.vg.no|language=nb|access-date=2019-12-03}} He is known for his studies on the history of Islam and Islamic law.Christine M. Jacobsen, Theory and Politics in Research on Muslim immigrants in Norway (Tidsskrift for Islamforskning – Research on Islam Repositioned, nr. 2 – 2008)
Biography
Knut S. Vikør comes from a family of teachers whose father was an associate professor at Orkdal national gymnasium. Born on June 10, 1952, Vikør holds a master's in history and earned his PhD from the University of Bergen in 1992.
Vikør was general manager of the Center for Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies at the University of Bergen from 1988 to 2002 when he was granted leave to work as an associate professor at the Department of History of the same university.
In 2005, Vikør was appointed associate professor at the institute, and is now serving as a professor at the Department of Archeology, History, Cultural and Religious Studies at the University of Bergen.{{Citation|last=Haave|first=Morten|title=Knut S. Vikør|date=2017-03-16|url=http://snl.no/Knut_S._Vik%C3%B8r|work=Store norske leksikon|language=no|access-date=2019-12-03}}
Bibliography
Besides his academic dissertations, Vikør has written several books aimed at general public. His books include:
- Sufi and Scholar on the Desert Edge: Muhammad b. 'Ali al-Sanusi and his Brotherhood (Northwestern University Press, 1995)Reviews of Sufi and Scholar on the Desert Edge:
- {{citation|last=Hamès|first=Constant|doi=10.2307/1596013|journal=Studia Islamica|jstor=1596013|pages=204–206|title=none|volume=84|year=1996|issue=84}}
- {{citation|last=Triaud|first=Jean-Louis|date=October–December 1996|issue=96|journal=Archives de sciences sociales des religions|jstor=30118749|pages=132–134|title=none|volume=41}}
- {{citation|last=Bennison|first=Katherine|issue=1|journal=The Journal of African History|jstor=182955|pages=135–136|title=none|volume=38|year=1997}}
- {{citation|last=Norris|first=H. T.|doi=10.1017/S0041977X00036582|issue=2|journal=Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London|jstor=620402|pages=359–360|title=none|volume=60|year=1997}}
- {{citation|last=Elger|first=Ralf|date=March 1997|doi=10.1163/1570060972597291|journal=Die Welt des Islams|jstor=1571133|pages=130–132|series=New Series|title=none|volume=37}}
- {{citation|last=Netton|first=Ian Richard|date=May 1997|issue=1|journal=British Journal of Middle Eastern Studies|jstor=195675|pages=119–120|title=none|volume=24}}
- {{citation|last=Davis|first=J.|date=July 1997|issue=2|journal=Journal of Islamic Studies|jstor=26198112|pages=281–282|title=none|volume=8|doi=10.1093/jis/8.2.281}}
- {{citation|last=Dé|first=Kathryn Coughlin|date=Spring 1998|issue=1|journal=The Arab Studies Journal|jstor=41969124|pages=110–114|title=none|volume=6}}
- The Exoteric Ahmad Ibn Idrīs. A Sufi's Critique of the Madhahib and the Wahhabis: Four Arabic texts with translation and commentary (with Bernd Radtke, John O'Kane, and R.S. O'Fahey, 2000)Reviews of The Exoteric Aḥmad Ibn Idrīs:
- {{citation|last=Chodkiewicz|first=Michel|doi=10.2307/1596282|journal=Studia Islamica|jstor=1596282|pages=210–212|title=none|volume=91|year=2000|issue=91}}
- {{citation|last=Schimmel|first=Annemarie|date=September 2001|issue=3|journal=Journal of Islamic Studies|jstor=26198292|pages=351–353|title=none|volume=12|doi=10.1093/jis/12.3.351}}
- Between God and the Sultan: A History of Islamic Law (Oxford University Press, 2005)Reviews of Between God and the Sultan:
- {{citation|last=Rosen|first=Lawrence|date=September 2006|issue=5|journal=Middle Eastern Studies|jstor=4284501|pages=848–850|title=none|volume=42}}
- {{citation|last=Ebert|first=Hans-Georg|journal=Die Welt des Islams|jstor=20140774|pages=251–254|series=New Series|title=none|volume=47|year=2007}}
- {{citation|last=Nielsen|first=Jørgen S.|date=January 2007|doi=10.1080/09596410601071220|issue=1|journal=Islam and Christian–Muslim Relations|pages=116–117|title=none|volume=18|s2cid=216151058}}
- The Maghreb Since 1800: A Short History (Hurst & Company, 2012)Reviews of The Maghreb since 1800:
- {{citation|last=McDougall|first=J.|date=October 2014|doi=10.1093/jis/etu078|issue=1|journal=Journal of Islamic Studies|pages=76–78|title=none|volume=26}}
- {{citation|last=Bechtold|first=Peter K.|date=April 2016|doi=10.1080/13629387.2016.1164397|issue=3|journal=The Journal of North African Studies|pages=519–521|title=none|volume=21|s2cid=146980222}}
References
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External links
- [https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=pTvYs-AAAAAJ&hl=en Google scholar page]
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Category:20th-century Norwegian historians