Knut Sigurdson Vikør
Position
Emeritus, History
Affiliation
- knut.vikor@uib.no
- Phone number
- +47 55582711
- Visitor address
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Øysteinsgt. 1
Bergen - Room: 511
- Postal address
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P.O. Box 7805NO-5020 BergenNorway
Knut Sigurdson Vikør
Position
Emeritus, History
Affiliation
Research
- Shari'a
- Sufism
- Saharan history
- Islam in Africa
I work on Islamic history, in particular in North and West Africa in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, but also with earlier interests. My first area was the history of central Sahara, I later studied the history of Sufi brotherhoods, in particular the Sanusiyya, and have also written on the history of Islamic law. In all these field, the focus has been on the social impact and relevance of these aspects of Islamic practice.
Teaching
Introduction to the History of the Middle East
Islam and politics
Themes in the history of the Middle East
(all in Norwegian)
Publications
Encyclopedia entry
- Knut S. Vikør (2025). sufisme – Store norske leksikon. (external link)
- Knut S. Vikør (2010). Ahmadiyya-Idrisiyya. (external link)
- Knut S. Vikør (2007). Jihad. (external link)
- Knut S. Vikør (2020). Maghreb from 1830. (external link)
- Knut S. Vikør (2024). Rābiḥ b. Faḍlallāh. (external link)
- Knut S. Vikør (2020). Ibrāhīm al-Rashīd. (external link)
- Knut S. Vikør (2020). Majdhūb, Muḥammad. (external link)
- Knut S. Vikør (2007). Fatwa. (external link)
- Knut S. Vikør (2009). Den arabiske våren. (external link)
- Knut S. Vikør (2018). Askiyā Muḥammad. (external link)
- Knut S. Vikør (2020). Muḥammad al-Mukhtār al-Shinqīṭī. (external link)
- Knut S. Vikør (2020). Māʾ al-ʿAynayn. (external link)
- Knut S. Vikør (2020). Idrīsiyya. (external link)
- Knut S Vikør (2013). Dandarawiyya. (external link)
- Knut S Vikør (2011). Chad. (external link)
- Knut S. Vikør (2006). Sudan. (external link)
- Knut S. Vikør (2020). Muḥammad b. ʿAbd al-Karīm Sammān. (external link)
- Knut S. Vikør (2008). Sanusi, Muhammad ibn Ali al-. (external link)
- Knut S. Vikør (2005). Kalifatet. (external link)
- Knut S. Vikør (2018). Kawār. (external link)
- Knut S. Vikør (2015). Bornu. (external link)
- Knut S Vikør (2013). Bilma. (external link)
- Knut S. Vikør (2016). Morocco. (external link)
- Knut S. Vikør (2017). Bourguiba, Habib, Gaddafi, Colonel Muammar al-, Libya, Sanusiyah, Tunisia. (external link)
- Knut S. Vikør (2019). Al-Fāshir. (external link)
- Knut S. Vikør (2008). Islam: Sufi orders. (external link)
- Knut S. Vikør (2015). Darb al-Araba'in. (external link)
- Knut S Vikør (2011). Bagirmi. (external link)
Popular science book
Academic book chapter
- Knut S. Vikør (2019). Islamisme i Libyas opprør. (external link)
- Knut Sigurdson Vikør (2022). Pathways and Formations of ‘African Sufism’. (external link)
- Knut S. Vikør (2017). What's in a name? The third branch of Islam and its naming. (external link)
- Knut S. Vikør (2006). The shaykh as mujtahid: A Sufi conception of ijtihād? (El šayḫ en el papel de muǧtahid: ¿una concepción sufí del iǧtihād?). (external link)
- Knut S. Vikør (2014). Shari'a. (external link)
- Knut S. Vikør (2019). The Islamic Tradition: A History. (external link)
- Knut S. Vikør (2022). Legal Authority and Interpretation in Islamic Law. (external link)
- Knut S. Vikør (2024). Fatwās on Aspects of Modern Life. (external link)
- Knut S. Vikør (2004). Sufism and foreign rule in Africa: politics and piety. (external link)
- Knut S. Vikør (2004). Ahmad b. Idris. (external link)
- Knut S. Vikør (1999). Jihad in West Africa: A global theme in a regional setting. (external link)
- Knut S. Vikør (2016). Libya: The Failures of Success. (external link)
- Knut S. Vikør (2019). Islamic Law: The Sources. (external link)
- Knut S. Vikør (2017). Muslim Subjects and the Rights of God. (external link)
- Knut S. Vikør (2015). Sufism and colonialism. (external link)
- Knut S. Vikør (2014). The Origins of the Sharia. (external link)
- Knut S. Vikør (1994). The Sanusiyya Tradition. (external link)
- Knut S. Vikør (1995). Sanusiyah. (external link)
- Knut S. Vikør (2016). Islamic Law in the Modern World: States, Laws and Constitutions. (external link)
- Knut S. Vikør (2010). Sudan, Somalia and the Maghreb to the end of the First World War. (external link)
- Knut S. Vikør (2018). Tripoli: Hovudstad for landet som braut sammen. (external link)
- Knut S. Vikør (2018). Trade and Religion in the Central Sahara: The Ibāḍīs and Kawar. (external link)
- Knut S. Vikør (2014). Religious Revolts in Colonial North Africa. (external link)
- Knut S. Vikør (2022). When does a Ṭarīqa Become a Ṭarīqa? The Story of a Break-up. (external link)
- Knut S. Vikør (2024). ’There is no sin in it, unless ...’: Legal reform among the Maghreb Ibāḍīs. (external link)
- Knut S. Vikør (1997). Sahara Desert. (external link)
- Knut S. Vikør (1998). Politisk islam - fundament eller utvekst?. (external link)
- Knut S. Vikør (2020). Sufi Sultanates and Imamates. (external link)
- Knut S. Vikør (1996). Muhammad b. Ali al-Sanusi A Fasi graduate in the Central Sahara. (external link)
- Knut S. Vikør (2015). Inscrutable Divinity or Social Welfare? The Basis of Islamic Law. (external link)
- Knut S. Vikør (1993). Mystics in the Desert: The Sanusiya and the Sahara. (external link)
- Knut S. Vikør (1995). Umar al-Mukthar. (external link)
Conference lecture
- Knut Sigurdson Vikør (2019). Ibrāhīm Bayyūḍ’s legal opinions. (external link)
- Knut S. Vikør (2008). Forskning på islam i Norge, i internasjonalt perspektiv. (external link)
- Knut S. Vikør (2007). Neo-Sufism or anti-madhhabism: How to describe the views of Muhammad b. 'Ali al-Sanusi. (external link)
- Knut S. Vikør (1999). Sufism and social welfare in the Sahara. (external link)
- Knut S. Vikør (2019). Libya, Maghreb and the transition to statehood. (external link)
- Knut Sigurdson Vikør (2019). Matrilineality among the Tuareg. (external link)
- Knut Sigurdson Vikør (2019). The Ibāḍī nahḍa and the integration into Sunni Algeria. (external link)
- Knut S. Vikør (2021). New tariqas in the nineteenth century: What was “new” in their activities? The case of the Sanusiya. (external link)
- Knut S. Vikør (1991). A Sanusi treatise on jihad. (external link)
- Knut S. Vikør (2008). An Islamic enlightenment in the 19th century? Sufism, law and a German debate. (external link)
- Knut S. Vikør (1999). Mystikk og politikk: Sufismen som revolusjonært potensiale. (external link)
- Knut S. Vikør (2010). Issues of ijtihad in contemporary usul studies. (external link)
- Knut S. Vikør (1998). The Shari'a and the nation state: who can codify the divine law?. (external link)
- Teresa Pepe; Knut S. Vikør; Toufoul Abou-Hodeib et al. (2021). Reflections on the 2011 Arab Uprisings from Norway: Ten Years After. (external link)
- Knut S. Vikør (1999). Mellom Gud og stat: Shari'a frå dogme til lov. (external link)
- Knut S. Vikør (2018). Ibrāhīm Bayyūḍ and the Ibāḍī Nahḍa. (external link)
- Knut S. Vikør (2018). Ibadism in Law and Historical Contexts. (external link)
- Knut S. Vikør (2007). Liberal or conservative? Two Syrian views on “the woman between Shari'a and society". (external link)
- Knut S. Vikør (2020). Contemporary Debates on Islamic Law. (external link)
- Knut S. Vikør (1998). Muhammadan piety and Islamic enlightenment: Survey of a historiographical debate. (external link)
- Knut S. Vikør (1999). "The only madhhab is the Qur'an and Sunna": A nineteenth-century attack on legal method. (external link)
- Knut S. Vikør (1999). Sufi reform or takfir: Ahmad b. Idris and the Wahhabi debate. (external link)
Media interview
- Knut S. Vikør (2006). Om Israels tilbaketrekking. (external link)
- Knut S. Vikør (2004). Om Sharia. (external link)
- Knut S. Vikør (2006). Frykter hardere klima for muslimer. (external link)
- Knut S. Vikør (2006). Om shi’a og sunni i Irak. (external link)
- Knut S. Vikør (2006). Om 11. september. (external link)
- Knut S. Vikør (2006). Om profetbilda. (external link)
- Knut S Vikør (2011). Stoda i Libya. (external link)
- Knut S. Vikør (2005). Intet nytt fra Østfronten. (external link)
- Knut S. Vikør (2007). –Totalt feilslått analyse. (external link)
- Knut S Vikør (2011). Stoda i Libya. (external link)
- Gunnar Haaland; Aase Cathrine Myrtveit; Knut S. Vikør (2015). Jødehatets religiøse røtter. (external link)
- Knut S. Vikør (2007). Ein kaotisk stat. (external link)
- Knut S. Vikør (2006). Om avrettinga av Saddam. (external link)
- Knut S. Vikør (2006). Kan ikke knekke Hamas. (external link)
- Knut S. Vikør (2004). Om muslimar i Europa. (external link)
- Knut S. Vikør (2005). Om valga i Irak. (external link)
- Knut S. Vikør (2005). Om korsfarartida. (external link)
- Knut S. Vikør (2005). Om folkerøystinga i Algerie. (external link)
Master’s thesis
- Knut S. Vikør; Henrik Bjørge Pedersen (2006). Fra provins til naboland Jordans rolle på Vestbredden 1967-1994. (external link)
- Magnus Halsnes; Knut Sigurdson Vikør (2009). Grenser i det grenselause. Opprettinga av Transjordan sine ørkengrenser. (external link)
- Knut S. Vikør; Erlend Nedrelid (2005). Adamawa-emiratets politiske, økonomiske og handelsmessige posisjon i Sokotoriket - med hovedvekt på perioden 1850-1900. (external link)
- Knut S. Vikør; Ruben Andreas Gentékos (2006). Muslimer i Storbritannia: ”The Racial and Religious Hatred Act 2006”. (external link)
- Knut S. Vikør; Knut Tjosevik (2007). Utviklingen av det sivile samfunnet i Egypt Forholdet mellom private organisasjoner, internasjonale NGOer og myndighetene i Egypt. (external link)
- Knut S. Vikør; Solfrid Roald (2007). "The way of self-giving" - Biskop Dehqani-Tafti om en iransk kristen identitet. (external link)
- Knut S. Vikør; Maria Aano Reme (2007). The frozen case: Civil rights of the Palestinian refugees in Lebanon - perceptions and realities. (external link)
- Knut S. Vikør; Kristin Finne (2007). An Islamists Notion of Development? A History of Lebanese Shi'i Development Policies between 1969 and 1992. (external link)
Media feature article
- Knut S. Vikør (2006). Kva skal reformeras?. (external link)
- Knut S. Vikør (1998). Melding av: Jean-Louis Triaud, "La Légende noire de la Sanûsiyya. Une Confrérie musulmane Saharienne sous le regard français (1840-1930)", Paris 19. (external link)
- Knut S. Vikør (1998). Melding av: Jakob Skovgaard-Petersen, "Defining Islam for the Egyptian State: Muftis and fatwas of the Dar al-Ifta". Leiden 1997. (external link)
- Knut S Vikør (2011). Libya: eit splitta land. (external link)
- Knut S. Vikør (2015). Ikkje akkurat ein stat. (external link)
- Knut S Vikør (2013). Lov og rett i Dubai. (external link)
- Knut S. Vikør (2004). Korleis "modernisera" islam?. (external link)
- Knut S. Vikør (2016). Alle mot alle. (external link)
- Knut S. Vikør (2016). Maktkampen mellom sunni- og sjia. (external link)
- Knut S. Vikør (1999). Review of Eva Evers Rosander and David Westerlund (eds.), African Islam and Islam in Africa: Encounters between Sufis and Islamists, London 1997. (external link)
- Knut S. Vikør (1996). Melding av: Muhammad Khalid Masud, "Shatibi's Philosophy of Islamic Law", Islamabad 1995. (external link)
- Knut S. Vikør (1997). Melding av: Astrid Meier, "Hunger und Herrschaft. Vorkoloniale und frühe kolonale Hungerkrisen im Nordtschad", Stuttgart 1995. (external link)
- Knut S. Vikør (2014). Kan ikkje stoppast med bomber. (external link)
- Knut S. Vikør (1994). Melding av Albert Hourani, De arabiske folks historie. (external link)
- Knut S. Vikør (1996). Melding av Lars Erslev Andersen (ed.), Middle East Studies in Denmark,. (external link)
- Knut S Vikør (2011). Libya etter Gaddafi. (external link)
- Knut S. Vikør (2015). “Islam og kristendom mykje det samme”. (external link)
- Knut S. Vikør (1998). Review of Samuel Decalo, "Historical Dictionary of Chad" (3rd edn), Lanham, MD 1997. (external link)
- Knut S. Vikør (1997). Melding av: Sidi Amar Ould Ely / Julian Johansen, "Handlist of manuscripts in the Centre de Documentation et de Recheches Historiques Ahmed Baba, Timbuktu", i. London, 1995. (external link)
- Knut S. Vikør (2016). Saudisk maktspråk. (external link)
- Knut S. Vikør (1999). Algerie: veg ut av tunnelen?. (external link)
- Knut S. Vikør (2006). Eit pragmatisk parti. (external link)
- Knut S. Vikør (1999). Er fatwaer farlige?. (external link)
- Knut S. Vikør (1997). The 'Islamophile' Italians before Libya. (external link)
- Knut S. Vikør (1994). Melding av: Robert B. Charlick, Niger: Personal Rule and Survival in the Sahel. (external link)
- Knut S Vikør (2011). Dei kristne i Midtausten. (external link)
- Knut S. Vikør (2005). Når blir islamisme til jihad?. (external link)
Non-fiction monograph
- Øyvind Bjørnson; Knut S. Vikør; Kristel Skorge Steen et al. (1998). Til debatt. Innlegg ved norske historiedagar 1996. (external link)
- Arve Kjell Uthaug; Knut S. Vikør; Kristel Skorge Steen et al. (1998). Til debatt. Innlegg ved norske historiedagar 1996. (external link)
- Knut S. Vikør (2007). Maghreb: Nordafrika etter 1800. (external link)
- Knut S. Vikør; Mhammed Sabour (1997). Ethnic encounter and culture change: Papers from the Third Nordic Conference on Middle Eastern Studies, Joensuu, 1995. (external link)
- Knut S. Vikør (1993). Ei verd bygd på islam. Oversikt over Midtaustens historie. (external link)
- Knut S. Vikør (1996). Sources for Sanusi Studies. (external link)
- Anne Kathrine Bang; Knut S. Vikør (1996). The Idri state in Asir 1906-1934. Politics, religion and personal prestige as statebuilding factors in early twentieth-century Arabia. (external link)
- Knut S. Vikør (2024). The Maghreb Since 1800. A Short History. Second edition. (external link)
- Knut S. Vikør (2005). Between God and the Sultan: A History of Islamic Law. (external link)
- Knut S Vikør (2012). The Maghreb Since 1800. A Short History. (external link)
- Knut S. Vikør (1995). Sufi and Scholar on the Desert Edge. Muhammad b. 'Ali al-Sanusi and his brotherhood. (external link)
- Knut S Vikør (2011). Maghreb: Nordafrika etter 1800 (2. utg.). (external link)
Popular science article
- Knut S. Vikør (2014). Fredelig val i Tunisia. (external link)
- Knut S Vikør (2013). Kvar går Syria. (external link)
- Knut S. Vikør (2019). Libya: Frå Qadhafi til Khalifa Haftar. (external link)
- Knut S. Vikør (2006). Europeisk lov og islamsk lov. (external link)
- Knut S. Vikør (2024). Fiqh. (external link)
- Knut S. Vikør (2024). Ibadiane. (external link)
- Knut S. Vikør (2015). Boko Harams brutale historie. (external link)
- Knut S. Vikør (2019). Kronosentrisme. (external link)
- Knut S. Vikør (2024). Sharia. (external link)
- Knut S. Vikør (2016). Landprofil 2014-2015: Libya. (external link)
- Knut S. Vikør (2024). Islamforsking og historieforsking. (external link)
- Knut S. Vikør (2024). Abbasidane. (external link)
- Knut S. Vikør (2024). Umayyadane. (external link)
- Knut S. Vikør (2007). 'Den rette praksisen'–Sunnismen i islam. (external link)
- Knut S. Vikør (2006). Fortolking i islamsk lov. (external link)
- Knut S. Vikør (1995). Islamsk lov og reform i Afrika. (external link)
- Knut S. Vikør (1998). Algerie: kvifor valden?. (external link)
- Knut S Vikør (2011). Hjartet i den arabiske verda. (external link)
Lecture
- Knut S. Vikør (2006). Jihad og velferd: Hamas og Hizballah. (external link)
- Knut S. Vikør (2006). Kulturkonflikt i middelalderen: Kva samfunn var det korstoga møtte i Midtausten?. (external link)
- Knut S. Vikør (1995). The New Sufi Brotherhoods of the 19th Century. (external link)
- Knut S. Vikør (1990). Muhammad b. Ali al-Sanusi and three opponents of ijtihad. (external link)
- Knut S. Vikør (1991). The Sanusiya, the Beduin and Sufi identity. (external link)
- Knut S. Vikør (1997). Jihad, ilm and tasawwuf�two justifications of action from the Idrisi tradition. (external link)
- Knut S. Vikør (1998). Islamsk lov: Historia om slavinnas son. (external link)
- Knut S. Vikør (2007). Politisk islamisme. (external link)
- Knut S. Vikør (2006). Clash of civilizations? Islam i vesten og den nye terrortrusselen. (external link)
- Knut S. Vikør (1997). Islamsk lov i eit ikkje-islamsk samfunn: kva er det?. (external link)
- Knut S. Vikør (1995). The development of ijtihad and Islamic reform, 1750-1850. (external link)
- Knut S. Vikør (1993). Muhammad b. Ali al-Sanusi- A Fasi graduate in the Central Sahara. (external link)
- Knut S. Vikør (1992). Jihads in West Africa: A global theme in a regional setting. (external link)
- Knut S. Vikør (1996). Sufism and revolt. Tijanis, Sanusis and Safavids. (external link)
- Knut S. Vikør (2008). Islamsk lov i moderne stater i Midtøsten. (external link)
- Knut S. Vikør (2007). The genesis of the Palestine problem and the creation of the State of Israel. (external link)
- Knut S. Vikør (2021). Reflections on the 2011 Arab Uprisings from Norway: Ten Years After. (external link)
- Knut S. Vikør (1998). Politcal language, action and religion. (external link)
- Knut S. Vikør (2007). Milits, velferdsorganisasjon og parti: Historia til Hizballah. (external link)
- Knut Sigurdson Vikør; Kjetil Selvik; Magnus Halsnes (2018). Panelsamtale: KRIG: Hvorfor Midtøsten. (external link)
- Knut S. Vikør (2006). Kurdistans historie. (external link)
- Knut S. Vikør (2006). Folkereligiøsitet i Islam. Kva trur og tenker vanlige sunnier, shiaer og sufier?. (external link)
- Knut S. Vikør (2006). Eventyret om eventyra: 1001 natts historie. (external link)
- Knut S. Vikør (1995). An attack on the freedom of interpretation: Hasan al-'Attar's Risala fi 'l-ijtihad. (external link)
- Magnus Halsnes; Knut S. Vikør; Anne Katrine Bang (2018). Panelsamtale: Kva er det med Saudi Arabia?. (external link)
Journal review
- Knut S Vikør (2013). Review of: Nigel Green, Sufism: A Global History, Chichester 2012. (external link)
- Knut S. Vikør (2006). Melding av David Robinson, Muslim Societies in African History. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press 2004. (external link)
- Knut S. Vikør (2009). L’aventure ibāḍite dans le Sud tunisien (VIIIe–XIIIe siècle). Effervescence d'une région méconnue, av Virginie Prevost. (external link)
- Knut S. Vikør (2019). Review of: Ismail Warscheid, Droit musulman et société au Sahara prémoderne. La justice islamique dans les oasis du Grand Touat (Algérie) aux XVIIe – XIXe siècles. Leiden, Brill 2017.. (external link)
- Knut S. Vikør (2021). Review of: Francesco Piraino & Mark Sedgwick (eds.): Global Sufism: Boundaries, Structures and Politics. (London: Hurst & Company, 2019). (external link)
- Knut S. Vikør (2022). Review of : Zachary V. Wright: Realizing Islam: The Tijaniyya in North Africa and the Eighteenth-Century Muslim World. (Chapel Hill 2020). (external link)
- Knut S. Vikør (2023). Review of Carrying on the Tradition: A Social and Intellectual History of Hadith Transmission across a Thousand Years. (external link)
- Knut S Vikør (2013). Review of: Jan Michiel Otto (ed.), Sharia Incorporated: A Comparative Overview of the Legal Systems of Twelve Muslim Countries in Past and Present. Leiden 2010. (external link)
- Knut S. Vikør (2002). Melding av Youssef M. Choueiri, Arab Nationalism: A history. Oxford 2000. (external link)
- Knut S. Vikør (2009). Rebel between Spirit and Law: Ahmad Zarruq, Sainthood and Authority in Islam, av Scott Kugle. (external link)
- Knut S. Vikør (2018). Review of: Ousmane Oumar Kane, Beyond Timbuktu. An intellectual history of Muslim West Africa, Cambridge MA, 2016. (external link)
- Knut S. Vikør (2019). Review of: Ayman S. Ibrahim, The Stated Motivations for the Early Islamic Expansion (622-641). A Critical Revision of Muslims’ Traditional Portrayal of the Arab Raids and Conquests. New York: Peter Lang, 2018. (external link)
- Knut S. Vikør (2020). Review of Anver M. Emon & Rumee Ahmed (eds.): The Oxford Handbook of Islamic Law (Oxford 2018). (external link)
- Knut S. Vikør (2023). Hilde Henriksen Waage: Spillet om Syria. (external link)
- Knut S. Vikør (2017). Melding av: Cecilie Hellestveit, Syria: En stor krig i en liten verden. Oslo: Pax 2017. (external link)
- Knut S. Vikør (2015). Melding av: Oddbjørn Leirvik, Islam og kristendom: Konflikt og dialog (Oslo 2014). (external link)
- Knut S. Vikør (2018). Melding av: Bendik Sørvig, Syria: Den tapte revolusjonen. Oslo 2017.. (external link)
- Knut S. Vikør (2017). Review of: David S. Powers, Zayd. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press 2014. (external link)
- Knut S. Vikør (2011). The challenge of political Islam: non-Muslims and the Egyptian state. (external link)
- Knut S Vikør (2011). Review of Rachel M. Scott, The Challenge of Political Islam: Non-Muslims and the Egyptian State. Stanford 2010. (external link)
- Knut S Vikør (2011). Review of: Mathieu Tillier, Les cadis d’Iraq et l’état abbasside (132/750–334/945). Damas 2009. (external link)
- Knut S. Vikør (2016). Melding av: Øystein Sørensen, Bernt Hagtvet, Nik. Brandal (red.), Islamisme. Ideologi og Trussel. Oslo: Dreyer 2016. (external link)
- Knut S. Vikør (2009). The Trans-Saharan Slave Trade. (external link)
- Knut S. Vikør (2008). A history of modern Libya. (external link)
- Knut S. Vikør (2017). Review of: Charles C. Stewart, Arabic Literature of Africa. 5: The Writings of Mauritania and the Western Sahara. Leiden, Brill 2016.. (external link)
- Knut S. Vikør (2021). Melding av: Cecilie Hellestveit: Ulykkelige Arabia. Verden etter Jemen. (Oslo 2021). (external link)
- Knut S. Vikør (2014). Melding av Hilde Henriksen Waage, "Konflikt og stormaktspolitikk i Midtøsten", Oslo 2013. (external link)
- Knut S Vikør (2012). Review of: Shamil Jeppie, Ebrahim Moosa and Richard Roberts (eds.), Muslim Family Law in Sub-Saharan Africa: Colonial Legacies and Post-colonial Challenges. Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press 2010. (external link)
- Knut S Vikør (2013). Sufism: A Global History. (external link)
- Knut S Vikør (2011). The Islamic judge of Iraq and the Abbasid state (132/750-334/945). (external link)
- Knut S. Vikør (2007). Melding av: Alessandra Vianello & Mohamed M. Kassim, eds., Servants of the Sharia: The Civil Register of the Qadis' Court of Brava 1893-1900. Leiden: Brill 2006. (external link)
- Knut S. Vikør (2016). Review of: Christian Müller, Der Kadi und seine Zeugen: Studie der mamlukischen Ḥaram-Dokumente aus Jerusalem. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz 2013. (external link)
Popular science book chapter
Academic monograph
- Knut S. Vikør; Rex Sean OFahey; Bernd Radtke et al. (2000). The Exoteric Ahmad Ibn Idris. A Sufi's Critique of the Madhahib and the Wahhabis: Four Arabic texts with translation and commentary. (external link)
- Knut S. Vikør (1999). The Oasis of Salt. The History of Kawar, a Saharan Centre of Salt Production. (external link)
Textbook
Letter to the editor
Academic article
- Knut S. Vikør (2024). Religious Minorities in Islamic Legal Traditions. (external link)
- Knut S. Vikør (2018). Er Libya eit land?. (external link)
- Rex Sean OFahey; Knut S. Vikør (1997). A Zanzibari Waqf of Books: the library of the Mundhiri family. (external link)
- Knut S. Vikør (1996). Shi'ismen - historias lim. (external link)
- Knut S. Vikør (1991). The Man Who Believed in the Mahdi. (external link)
- Knut S. Vikør (1987). Ibn Idris and al-Sanusi - The Teacher and his Student. (external link)
- Knut S. Vikør (2004). The truth about cats and dogs: The historicity of early Islamic law. (external link)
- Knut S. Vikør (2024). What has Islam got to do with it?. (external link)
- Knut S. Vikør; Rex Sean OFahey (1996). A Zanzibari waqf of books: the library of the Mundhiri family. (external link)
- Knut S. Vikør (1992). The Sanusi Letters: a checklist. (external link)
- Knut S. Vikør (2024). Jihadismens barn: Historia til Den libyske islamske kampgruppa LIFG. (external link)
- Knut S. Vikør (2024). What is a country? History and the creation of the Maghreb. (external link)
- Knut S. Vikør (2020). Ibadism and Law in Historical Contexts. (external link)
- Knut S. Vikør (1990). Modernitet og tradisjon i islam. (external link)
- Knut S. Vikør (1987). Al-Sanusi and Qadhafi - Continuity of Thought?. (external link)
Doctoral thesis (PhD)
Research report
See a complete overview of publications in Cristin.
Sufi and Scholar on the Desert Edge. Muhammad b. 'Ali al-Sanusi and his Brotherhood. London og Evanston 1995
The Oasis of Salt. The History of Kawar, a Saharan Centre of Salt Production. Bergen/London 1999
“Jihad, ‘ilm and tasawwuf - two justifications of action from the Idrisi tradition”, Studia Islamica, xc, 2000, 153-76
“Sufi Brotherhoods in Africa”, i N. Levtzion and R. Pouwels (eds.), The History of Islam in Africa, Athens, OH 2000, 441-76.
Between God and the Sultan: A history of Islamic law. London and New York 2005.
“The shaykh as mujtahid: A Sufi conception of ijtihad?” in A. Carmona (ed.), El Sufismo y las normas del Islam, Murcia 2006, 129-56 og 351-75.
The Maghreb since 1800: A Short History. London 2012
Projects
- The conception of ijtihad (legal formulation) in debates over method in the 18th and 19th centuries
- ”The Shari’a in the modern world: Faith, norms and state power”.