Degrees Taken 1993-2004

Doctorates

• Endre Stiansen: 'Overture to imperialism. European trade and economic change in the Sudan in the nineteenth century' (1994, History).
• Gunnar Sørbø: 'Micro-macro issues in rural development : a study of economic adaptions and environmental problems in Eastern Sudan' (1994, Anthropology).
• Terje Tvedt: 'Norwegian views on the non-European world in the 1970s and 80s: an example of cross-cultural representations' * (1994, Development studies).

• Omer Egeimi: 'The political ecology of subsistence crisis in the Red Sea Hills, Sudan' (1995, Geography).
• Moslih Kanaaneh: 'Left behind: Palestinians in the Jewish state' (1995, Anthropology)
• Tone Bleie: 'Brides for ruin: grooms for wealth? Marriage prestations in rural Bangladesh' (1995, Anthropology).
• Eldar Bråten: 'Riddles of inverted being: A case of self and fellowship formation in Yogyakarta, Java' (1995, Anthropology).

• Kirsten Alsaker Kjerland: '"Cattle breed, shillings don't": the belated incorporation of the abaKuria into modern Kenya' (1996, History).
• Zahra Kamalkhani: 'Women's Islam: religious practice among women in today's Iran' (1996, Anthropology).
• Albrecht Hofheinz: 'Internalising Islam: Shaykh Muhammad Majdhub, scriptural Islam and local context in early nineteenth-century Sudan' (1996, History).

• Frode Fadnes Jacobsen: 'A medical-anthropological study of children's health in the Red Sea Hills, Sudan' (1997, Anthropology).
• A. Asaduzzaman: 'Urban sweepers in Bangladesh: caste and community, religion and dignity' (1997, Anthropology).

• Kjell Hødnebø: 'Cattle, corn and crisis: agrarian and ecologial change in South Sudan' (1998, History)
• Ahmed Ibrahim Abu Shouk: 'Dar Bidayriyya Nazirate of Northern Kordofan: traditional leadership in a society in transformation' (1998, History)

• Mark Sedgwick:'The heirs of Ahmad ibn Idris: The spread and normalization of a Sufi order, 1799-1996' (1999, History).
• Vibeke Vågenes:'Women of the interior, Men of the exterior. The gender order of Hadendowa nomads, Red Sea Hills, Sudan' (1999, Geography).
• Inger Marie Okkenhaug: '"The quality of heroic living of high endeavour and adventure": Anglican Mission, women and education in Palestine, 1888-1948' (1999, History).

• Marit Tjomsland: 'This, but also the other: Expressions of the Islamic Trend in Tunisia' (2000, Sociology).
• Else J. Kleppe: 'Material and verbal manifestations of socio-cultural institutions in an African kingship: The Shilluk of southern Sudan' (2000, Archaeology).
• Anne K. Bang: 'Sufis and scholars of the sea: The Sufi and family networks of Ahmad ibn Sumayt and the tariqa 'Alawiya in East Africa, c. 1860-1925' (2000, History).

• Vemund Aarbakke: 'The Muslim Minority of Greek Thrace' (2001, History).
• Ståle Knudsen: 'Entangled Knowledges of the Black Sea. Confrontation and Convergence between Turkish Fishermen and Marine Scientists' (2001, Anthropology).
• Are Knudsen: 'Boundaries of Belongingness in the Palas Valley, Pakistan' (2001, Anthropology).

• Arne Haugen: 'The Establishment of National Republics in Soviet Central Asia' (2002, History)
• Sevil Sümer: 'Global Issues / Local Troubles: A Comparative Study of Turkish and Norwegian Urban Dual-Earner Couples' (2002, Sociology)

• Munzoul Abdalla Assal: 'Beyond labelling : Somalis and Sudanese in Norway and the challenge of homemaking' (2003, Anthropology).
• Lars Gule: "Social development and political progress in two traditions : a conceptual and comparative analysis of Western and Arab-Islamic ideas of social and political change and improvement" (2003, Philosophy)
• Nefissa Naguib, 'Knowing Water: Palestinian women between the spring and the faucet' (2003, Anthropology)

Master's ("Hovudfag") theses

• Mete Pamir: 'Social and political roots of an unsuccessful late industrialization attempt: the case of Turkey until 1946' (1993, Sociology).

• Anne Katrine Bang: 'The Idrisi State in 'Asir, 1906 - 1934: politics, religion and personal prestige in early twentieth-century Arabia' (1994, History).
• Svein Engelstad: 'Tendencies in modern Egyptian painting' * (1994, Art History).
• Kim Jensen: 'Project Alpha: an Anglo-American attempt to solve the Arab-Israeli conflict' (1994, History).
• Herbjørn Jenssen: 'The subtleties and secrets of the arabic language: preliminary investigations into al-Qazwini's Talkhis al-miftah' (1994, Arabic).
• Dag Jørund Lønning: 'Bridge over troubled water: inter-ethnic and co-operation in the midst of ethnic conflict: the Israeli-Palestinian case' (1994, Anthropology)
• Camilla Trud Nereid: 'In the light of Said Nursi: Turkish nationalism and the religious alternative' (1994, History).

• Arne Haugen: 'Between Mecca and Moscow: cultural change in Turkmenistan in the Soviet period' * (1995, History)
• Morten Ivarsen: 'Attitudes towards the Six Day War in some Norwegian newspapers' * (1995, History)
• Tore Kjeilen: 'Tunisia / Islam. 1994/1995: actions and attitudes' * (1995, History of Religions)
• Knut Atle Klausen: 'Georg August Wallin and the Orient: cultural encounter in a cosmological perspective' * (1995, History of Religions).
• Narve Skaar: 'Norway in The United Nations Emergency Force - 1956-57: background and participation' * (1995, History).
• Arvid Tengesdal: 'Khomeini and the charisma in the Iranian revolution' * (1995, History of Religions).
• Reidar Visser: 'Ottomanism and separatism: patterns of ethno-politics in Lebanon, Syria and Iraq' (1995, Political science).

• Mursit Cetin: 'The effects of the customs union with the European Union on Turkish foreign trade: an empirical study using a partial equilibrium model' (1996, Economy).
• Jorunn Barka: 'Womens' life in Cairo: an anthropological study of middle class women's daily life' * (1996, Anthropology).
• Jan Hasselberg:'The agricultural policy of Egypt 1982-1992: the quest for sustainability in a liberal age' (1996, History).
• Andreas Hjelle: 'Crossing points: An anthropological analysis of young men of the middle class in Cairo' * (1996, Anthropology).
• Anne Hushagen: 'The conceptions of others and one's own images: the identity construction of Iranian women in Norway' * (1996, Sociology).
• Gun Anita Kvalsvik: 'Women in between: strategies of discussion among female students in Cairo' * (1996, Anthropology).
• Geir Lund: 'The Java Charter return trip: A historiographic survey on Islam in the negotiations for a constitution in Indonesia, 1945' * (1996, History).
• Gulengul Nalis: 'Should we have a child?: an interprative study of child-having and remaining childless experiences of the Turkish academics' (1996, Sociology).
• Toril Orrestad: 'The political importance of Islamist movements in the Maghreb' * (1996, Political Science).
• Sevil Sümer: 'Ambiguous modernities, vigorous identities: a comparative study of the educated women of urban Turkey and Norway' (1996, Sociology).
• Solveig Ulland Uribe: 'History of Norwegian Aid, 1972-1992: A study of the Church Emergency Relief in Southern Sudan' * (1996, History).

• Rune Fimreite: 'The Palestinian factor in Jordanian politics 1971-93' * (1997, History)
• Unni S. Fuglestad: 'The struggle over childrens' faith: Ahmed Taleb Ibrahimi and Abbassi Madani on the schools of independent Algeria' * (1997, History)
• Solveig Holm: 'Minangkabau women in Yogyakarta: cultural orientation in a context of migration' * (1997, Anthropology)
• Undine Kvist: 'To be alike and different at the same time: the handling of identities among young grown-ups of Turkish descent in Germany' * (1997, Anthropology)
• Bente Krossøy: 'Choosing Islam: conversations and companionship with North African women in Norway' * (1997, Anthropology)
• Tone Lund-Olsen: 'Religion and globalisation: consequences in Malaysia' * (1997, History of Religions)
• Anne-Karine Solstad Olsen: 'Voix de femmes dans L'amour, la fantasia d'Assia Djebar' (1997, French lit.)
• Marit Stålesen: 'In the beginning were the Turks: nationalised history writing in Turkey in the 1930s' * (1997, History)
• Vestein Vada: 'The Norwegian Peace Corps in Iran, 1965-71: support for the needy or a mistake in development aid politcs?' (1997, History)

• Christine Jacobsen: 'To return to Islam: Islamization, gender and identity in a French context' * (1998, Anthropology)
• Siri Lill Mannes: 'The tale of the wolf: the development and mobilisation of Chechen national identity' (1998, History [M.Phil.])
• Susanne Olsson: 'Religio-political Islam in the encounter with modernity: an analysis of Hasan Hanafi's socio-political interpretation of Islam' * (1998, History of Religions)
• Ole Reinert Omvik: 'Shari'a in modern Egyptian jurisprudence, in light of the case against Nasr Hamid Abu Zayd' * (1998, History).
• Kari Eken Strømmen: 'Turk, Muslim and Soviet citizen: the development of Azerbaijani national identity under the Soviet regime' * (1998, History).
• Margrete Søvik: 'Islam in the French problematics of integration: an analysis of the French discussion over veiling in 1989' * (1998, History).
• Lill Thomassen: 'The traditional strategy: an analysis of Seyyed Hossein Nasr's religiously founded critique of modernity' * (1998, History of Religions).
• Astrid Vatne: 'Egyptian feminism 1900-1930: issues, alliances, organizations and strategies' * (1998, History).
• Kristina Strand Vestbø: '"At home we are Uzbek": family, marriage and community in the old city of Tashkent, Uzbekistan' (1998, Anthropology).

• Seyed Fazel Alyasan: 'Adapting religion to modern times: A study of religion and identity among Shia Iranian immigrants in Norway.' (1999, Sociology)
• Elisabeth Berner: 'Indispensable and invisible. The Nation of Islam's teaching on womanhood' (1999, History of Religions)
• Mona Dia: 'We are like different fingers on a hand: A study of the discourse of ethno-religious differences in Beirut, Lebanon' (1999, Anthropology) *
• Benedikte H. Fjeldstad: 'Holy war in Christianity and Islam. A study of central features of Christian and Islamic holy war during the Crusades' (1999, History of Religions) *
• Kjetil Fosshagen: 'We don't exist. Negotiations of history and identity in a Turkish Cypriot town' (1999, Anthropology)
• Åsne Halskau: 'Rifa'at Hassan: Between Western modernity and normative Islam' (1999, History of Religions) *
• Tom Irgan: 'One source - many rivers: A study of Pakistani Muslim organizations in Oslo' (1999, Anthropology) *
• Liv Ingeborg Lied: ' From Palestine to Heaven: Conceptions of the Land in the Testament of Moses' (1999, History of Religions) *
• Farhad Maghsoudi: 'Trading tradition : on the re-emergence of dællaly (middlemanship) in post-1979 Iran ' (1999, Anthropology)
• Maricano B. Matiyas: 'Early Iron Age around Rufiji delta, Tanzania: a study of Mwangia pottery tradition' (1999, Archaeology [M.Phil.])
• Rachel M. Olsen: 'Liberated or responsible women? The entry of Tunisian women on the political arena, in particular in the period 1980-1990' (1999, History) *
• Eirin Rødseth: 'This is not our culture. An analysis of processes of cultural change among Muslims in Sri Lanka' (1999, Anthropology) *
• Asle Smith: '"Israel" or "Palestine": An historical analysis of the political process of rapprochement between the state of Israel and the PLO' (1999, History) *
• Benedicte Solheim: 'Education is a weapon for the future! An anthropological study of female students on the West Bank' (1999, Anthropology) *
• Esther van Veen'One of us: belonging, relations and network among Kazakh intelligensia in Almaty, Kazakhstan' * (1999, Anthropology)
• Per Anders Aas: ' Muslim attitudes to the teaching of Christianity in Norwegian schools' (1999, History of Religions) *
• Tor Morten Normann: 'Consolidated democracy on the basis of Kemalism? The games around democatic consolidation in Turkey; an integrated perspective' (1999, Political science) *

• Kjersti Håvardstun: 'Between tradition and modernity in Islam: An analysis of Yusuf al-Qardawi's thought' (2000, History of Religions) *
• Synnøve Lid: , 'In nature's bosom: An analysis of the wooden godess motive in three selected graves of Thebes' * (2000, History of Religions).
• Helge Lyberg: 'Reading Popular Literature in Yemen: The Sequels of Poverty' (2000, Arabic)
• Hege Irene Markussen: 'Alevilik ve Bektasilik. Religion and identity formation in contemporary Turkey' (2000, History of Religions)
• Ragnhild Mestad: '"Elles n'ont pas la volonté" : respectability among Christian women in Ngaoudere' (2000, Anthropology) *
• Hårek Sande: 'The Supreme Council for the Islamic Revolution in Iraq : background, organization and development 1982-1995' (2000, History)

• Laila Badawy: 'Perceptions of the Western Other and the Authentic Self: A comparison between two contemporary Egyptian intellectuals Jurj Bahguri and Yusuf Fransis' (2001, Arabic)
• Siri Dahl Dørnes: 'Jewish civil religion. An analysis of Jerusalem Post in the period before, during and afer Operation Peace for Gallille in 1982'. (2001, History of Religions) *
• Rune Endresen: 'The identity and self-awareness of Ahmadi Muslims: A study of the community of Islam's Ahmadiyya in Norway'. (2001, History of Religions)
• Hans Eric Fasmer: 'Tramping with mangrove and dates: the inter-regional dhow trade between the Gulf and East Africa, 1890s-1960s' (2001, History)
• Jorun Titlestad Gjelsvik: "Influence of Islamic culture on Scandinavian management in Malaysia - a glance at multinational management and Islamic values". (2001, History of Religions)
• Cecilie Hansen: 'The veil: Views and experiences of Muslim women's headgear' (2001, Ethnology) *
• Gørill Husby: "'Don't vote for the Evil Eye'. Religion encountering politics: Sufism and Islamism on Zanzibar". (2001, History of Religions)
• Maria Mellegaard Lien: "' Let us find our own identity first. Identity construction among young Muslims in Norway". (2001, History of Religions) *
• Lars-Gunnar Lundblad: 'Zakat (alms): The third pillar of Islam. On religiously motivated welfare services, focusing on practices in Palestine' (2001, Sociology) *
• Renate Lunde: 'Between tradition and modernity : girls' education in the northern Sudan, 1899-1956' (2001, History)
• Helle M. Lundberg Silva: 'Where men are like lions: the handling of identity on Ilha de Moçambique' (2001, Anthropology) *
• Jorid Tveita: 'The Comores: A life to live. A study of structure, individual and positioning on Ngazidja' (2001, Anthropology) *
• Yvonne M. Wang: "The Jewish messengers from Palestine 200-429 CE - the relationship between the Rabbinical milieu in Eretz Israel and the Jewish diaspora". (2001, History of Religions) *
• Inger Jorunn Årseth: 'The position of the Muslim woman in marriage: theory and practice' (2001, History) *

• Ayman Abu Mustafa: 'The Trade Routes in Palestine during the Mamluk period (1260-1516 Q.D.) A historical, geographical and economic study' (2002, History)
• Sindre Bangstad: 'On Dien and Doenja: Muslim identities in an urban local community in Cape Town' (2002, Anthropology) *
• Kjersti G. Berg: 'Building peace in a time of war: Palestininan experiences with the development program People-to-People 1995-2002' (2002, History) *
• Janne Bøe: '"Agriculture will always be the preferred labour; it was this that was the first love": A comparative anthropological study of irrigation socities on the West Bank' (2002, Anthropology) *
• Ane Fidjestøl: 'The prince chose the Heavenly empire: A study of the myth complex around the battle of Kosovo/a in 1389' (2002, History of Religions) *
• Tone Delin Fredriksen: 'Expatriate life: An anthropological study of living and identity among Western women attached to the oil industry in the sultanate of Oman' (2002, Anthropology) *
• Silje Grønner: 'The mountains are our only friends: The growth of Kurdish national identity in Turkish Kurdistan 1880-2000' (2002, History) *
• Ragnhild Lunde: 'Religion and state. An analysis of the religious policies of independent Uzbekistan' (2002, History of Religions) *
• Anne Mailin Selland: 'Betraying the Nation: Reactions and background to the assassination of Yitzhak Rabin' (2002, History of Religions)
• Pål Steiner: 'The everday offering ritual in the New Empire temples' (PDF file); (2002, History of Religions) *

• Marianne Bøe: "'Show us the real Islam! I am a Muslim and you are a Muslim too. But tell me: What is Islam?" A study of Iranian women's activism" (2003, History of Religon>*
• Kristin Gaarde: 'British Irrigation Management in Mandatory Palestine, 1929-47' (2003, History)
• Henriette Hafsaas: 'Cattle pastoralists in a multicultural setting: the C-Group people in Lower Nubia, 2500-1500 BCE' (2003, Archaeology) *
• David Hogstad: 'Student, state and history in Morocco: an outline of the praxis of theory' (2003, Anthropology) *
• Jostein Innvik: 'Do electoral laws effect the access of interests to the national assembly : on the influence of institutional charateristics and strategic action in the case of Lebanon' (2003, Political Science)
• Bård Helge Kårtveit: '"In the US I'm an Arab terrorist, here I'm an American punk!": a study of Palestinian return migration and indentity management on the West Bank' (2003, Anthropology) *
• Pernille Myrvold: 'Images of the Other: The West seen through the popular Arabic press' (2003, Arabic) *
• Kjersti Rogde Næss: 'The myth about Muslims: An analysis of the media's descriptions of Muslim immigrants in Norway in light of Roland Barthes' concept of myths' (PDF file); (2003, History of Religions) *
• Hege Toje: 'State and stanitsa: Identity and adaptation in Cossack settlement in Northwest Caucasus 1864-2000' (2003, Anthropology) *

• Elisabeth Bakka: '"In the Baha'i faith, we are allowed to be women': Identity and selfunderstanding' (2004, History of Religions) *

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