Knut Vikør

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According to Wikipedia, Knut Sigurdson Vikør is a Norwegian historian and a professor of history at the University of Bergen. He is known for his studies on the history of Islam and Islamic law. 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.

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Between God and the Sultan: A History of Islamic Law (2005) (113)
Sufi and scholar on the desert edge : Muḥammad b. ʿAlī al-Sanūsī and his brotherhood (1996) (21)
An Episode of Saharan Rivalry: The French Occupation of Kawar, 1906 (1985) (15)
Divorce in the Libyan Family: A Study Based on the Sijills of the Shari'ah Courts of Ajdabiyya and Kufra . By Aharon Layish. New York: New York University Press1991. Pp. xxiii, 236. Price not available. ISBN: 0-814-75053-2. (2001) (15)
The Desert-Side Salt Trade of Kawar (1982) (15)
Rebel between Spirit and Law: Ahmad Zarruq, Sainthood and Authority in Islam (2009) (9)
Muslim Family Law in Sub-Saharan Africa: Colonial Legacies and Post-Colonial Challenges (2012) (9)
The Islamic tradition (2019) (8)
The oasis of salt : the history of Kawar, a Saharan centre of salt production (1999) (7)
Law and the Islamic World: Past and Present (2001) (6)
The Maghreb since 1800 : a short history (2012) (5)
Religious Revolts in Colonial North Africa (2014) (4)
The Exoteric Ahmad Ibn Idris. A Sufi's Critique of the Madhahib and the Wahhabis (1999) (4)
The challenge of political Islam: non-Muslims and the Egyptian state (2011) (3)
A Zanzibari Waqf of Books: The Library of the Mundhiri Family (1996) (3)
Sources for Sanūsī studies (1996) (3)
The New Cambridge History of Islam: Sudan, Somalia and the Maghreb to the end of the First World War (2000) (2)
A Tale of Three 'Shambas': Shafi'i-Ibadi Legal Cooperation in the Zanzibar Protectorate. Part One (1999) (2)
Jihád, 'ilm and tasawwuf - Two Justifications of Action-from the Idrisi Tradition (2000) (2)
Islamic Law in the Modern World States, Laws, and Constitutions (2016) (2)
The Early History of the Kawar Oasis: A Southern Border of the Maghreb or a Northern Border of the Sudan? (1987) (2)
Sufism and Colonialism (2014) (1)
The Man Who Believed in the Mahdi (1991) (1)
The Middle East viewed from the North (1992) (1)
The Origins of the Sharia (2014) (1)
Inscrutable Divinity or Social Welfare? The Basis of Islamic Law (2015) (1)
Ibadism and law in historical contexts (2020) (1)
Al-Sanusi and Qadhafi: Continuity of Thought? (1987) (1)
Opening the Maliki School: Mohammad b. 'Ali al-Sanusi's Views on the Madhab (2000) (1)
The Sanusi Letters: A Checklist (1992) (1)
Islamic law (2019) (0)
Review of Carrying on the Tradition: A Social and Intellectual History of Hadith Transmission across a Thousand Years (2023) (0)
Nile Green: Sufism: A Global History . xxi, 363 pp. Chichester: Wiley-Blackwell, 2012. £19.99. ISBN 978 1 4051 5765 0. (2013) (0)
The Stated Motivations for the Early Islamic Expansion (622–641). A Critical Revision of Muslims’ Traditional Portrayal of the Arab Raids and Conquests, by Ayman S. Ibrahim (2019) (0)
John Wright, The Trans-Saharan Slave Trade , History and Society of the Islamic World (London: Routledge, 2007). Pp. 240. $160.00 cloth. (2009) (0)
Muslim Subjects and the Rights of God (2017) (0)
Ethnic encounter and culture change : papers from the Third Nordic Conference on Middle Eastern Studies, Joensuu, 1995 (1997) (0)
Servants of the Sharia: The Civil Register of the Qadis' Court of Brava, 1893–1900 (review) (2007) (0)
On Sources (2020) (0)
Research on Islam in the Nordic Countries (1998) (0)
Realizing Islam: The Tijaniyya in North Africa and the Eighteenth-Century Muslim World By Zachary Valentine Wright (2021) (0)
Global Sufism: Boundaries, Structures, and Politics Edited by Francesco Piraino and Mark Sedgwick (2021) (0)
Anver M. Emon and Rumee Ahmed (eds): The Oxford Handbook of Islamic Law. (Oxford Handbooks in Law.) xv, 985 pp. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2018. £125. ISBN 978 0 19967901 0. (2020) (0)
Trade and religion in the Central Sahara.: The Ibāḍīs and Kawar (2018) (0)
A Tale of Three 'Shambas'. Part Two (2000) (0)
Book Reviews (2008) (0)
Ṣūfī Sultanates and Imamates (2020) (0)
Dirk Vandewalle A History of Modern Libya (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press 2006). Pp. 274. $80.00 cloth, $25.99 paper. (2008) (0)
Beyond Timbuktu. An intellectual history of Muslim West Africa, written by Ousmane Oumar Kane (2018) (0)
Arabic Literature of Africa: Volume 5. The Writings of Mauritania and the Western Sahara, written by Charles C. Stewart, with Sidi Ahmed Wuld Ahmed Salim (2017) (0)

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University of Bergen