Home page for
Knut S. Vikør
Professor of the History of the Middle East and
Muslim Africa.
Academic
One section relates to my academic work, with some references to papers I have written etc. (some Norwegian, some English).- CV (formal)
- List of publications
Online papers:
- The Man Who Believed in the Mahdi: article, 1991 (Sudanic Africa 2, 1991: w. M.I. Abu Salim)
- The Sanusi Letters: A checklist: article (Sudanic Africa 3, 1992)
- "Fundamentalisme, islamisme eller politisk islam?". Paper, 1995
- "The development of ijtihad and Islamic reform, 1750-1850". Paper, 1995.
- "The Shari'a and the nation state: who can codify the divine law?". Paper, 1998.
- A Tale of Three shambas: article (Sudanic Africa 10, 1999: w. A.K. Bang)
- "'The Truth about Cats and Dogs': A debate on the genesis of Islamic law". Paper, 2001.
Computers
The second, and largest, section concerns computing, and in particular the use of Arabic on the Macintosh (and a bit on the PC):- The Arabic Macintosh Information Centre.
How to write Arabic on the Mac, overviews and reviews of what programs work, Arabic fonts for the Mac (and PC), etc.
Also issues of transliteration of Arabic into Latin characters, with a transliteration font for download (the "Jaghbub package"), tools for converting old Mac or Windows documents to "Unicode", etc.
Address
Knut S. Vikør
Dept. of Archaeology, History, Cultural Studies and Religion,
University of Bergen
P.O. Box 7805
N-5020 Bergen
Norway
- Visiting address: Øysteinsgt. 1, 5th floor
Tel: +47-5558 2711, Fax: +47-5558 9654
knut.vikor@ahkr.uib.no