Knut S. Vikor (University of Bergen)

Submitted 10 May 1995

Knut S. Vikor, Dr.
Director
Centre for Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies,
University of Bergen
Parkvn. 22 a,
N-5007 Bergen
Norway

Phones:   +47-5521 2711 [private: +47-5510 2790]
FAX:      +47-5531 3845
Email:    knut.vikor@smi.uib.no
http://www.hf-fak.uib.no/i/smi/

Secretary of the Nordic Society for Middle Eastern Studies
Knut S. Vikor           knut.vikor@smi.uib.no
Nordic Society for Middle Eastern Studies
SMI, Parkv. 22A, N-5007 Bergen, Norway
Tel. +47-5521 2711, Fax +47-5531 3845.  Giro 0823 0234621
http://www.hf-fak.uib.no/i/smi/nsm/


Main research topics: "Sufism in eighteenth- and nineteenth Century Maghreb
and the Sahara (in particular the Sanusiya order)"; and "The debate about
ijtihad in the seventeenth to nineteenth centuries". General research
interest: The history of the Saharan peoples.

Keywords:
Sufism
History
Islamic Law
Sanusiya (Sufi order)
Sahara, history
Ijtihad
Arabic
Libya
Niger
Chad
Eigtheenth - nineteenth centuries


(to FU: I don't know if you want to include such non-research details, but
as the Secretary of the Nordic Society for Middle Eastern Studies I am thus
the contact address for this body).


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Knut S. Vikxr           knut.vikor@smi.uib.no
Nordic Society for Middle Eastern Studies
SMI, Parkv. 22A, N-5007 Bergen, Norway
Tel. +47-5521 2711, Fax +47-5531 3845.  Giro 0823 0234621
http://www.hf-fak.uib.no/i/smi/nsm/