Knut S. Vikor (University of Bergen, Norway)

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Dr. Knut S. Vikor
Centre for Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies
University of Bergen
Parkv. 22 a
N-5507
Bergen
Norway

phone:   +47-5558 2711
fax:     +47-5558 9891
e-mail:  knut.vikor@smi.uib.no

Director of the Centre for Middle Eastern Studies, U. of Bergen since 1988.

Research in three main areas:

- The history of the Saharan peoples, particularly central Sahara
(Libya-Niger-Chad). Publication: *The Oasis of Salt. The history of Kawar,
a Saharan centre of salt production*, Bergen-London 1998.

- Sufism and Sufi orders, particularly in North and West Africa,
eighteenth-nineteenth centuries.  Publications: *Sufi and Scholar on the
Desert Edge. Muhammad b. Ali al-Sanusi and his brotherhood* (London 1995);
*Sources for Sanusi Studies* (Bergen-London 1996). 'The Sufi orders in
Africa', in N. Levtzion and R.  Pouwels (eds.) *The History of Islam in
Africa* (forthc.) 

- Islamic law, particularly the debate on *ijtihad* in the early modern
period.  Publications, *The Exoteric Ahmad b. Idris. A Sufi master against
Madhhabs and Wahhabis* (with B. Radtke, R.S. O'Fahey and J. O'Kane, Leiden
forthc.); *Mellom Gud og stat. Den islamske lova blir til* [Between God
and State. The establishment of an Islamic law], (Oslo, forthc.) 

Other publications: *Ei verd bygd po islam* [A World built on Islam.
Introduction to the history of the Middle East] (Oslo, 1993). Various
edited works.  

Editor of *Sudanic Africa. A Journal of HIstorical Sources*. Sudanic
Africa is published annualy in book form since 1990, and specializes on
the presentation and discussion of source material for the sub-Saharan
Sudanic belt. It can be reached at the Centre's address given above, cf. 
http://www.hf.uib.no/smi/sa