Martin van Bruinessen (Utrecht University)

Submitted: Wed, 31 May 1995 13:50:53 +0200

Martin van Bruinessen, Dr.
Department of Oriental Languages and Cultures,
Utrect University
Drift 15,
3511 BR Utrecht,
Netherlands

Phones:   +31  30  536146
          +31  30  536 133
FAX:      +31  30  536 138
Email:    martin.vanbruinessen@let.ruu.nl



Recent research concerns various aspects of Islam in Indonesia: the
processes of islamization as reflected in Malay and Javanese literature,
the role of the Sufi orders (notably Shattariyya, Naqshbandiyya,
Khalwatiyya, Qadiriyya, Tijaniyya and Idrisiyya), traditional Muslim
education in the pesantren and reform of the pesantren tradition, the
educational, social and political roles of the traditionalist Muslim
organization, Nahdlatul Ulama, and the changing discourses of the ulama.

Present teaching: Ottoman language, Ottoman and Turkish history, Kurdish
language, Kurdish history, Islam in Turkey.

Ongoing research:  ethnicity and nationalism in Turkey and Kurdistan;
Alevism as a religion and as an ethnic identity; Kurdish ulama, Sufi orders
and heterodox religious communities; Evliya Celebi and other 17th-century
authors on the Kurds.