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  • Publications 1993-2003


    Articles and pamphlets

    by region.

    Islam general, Middle East interregional

    • Nils Anfinset, 'Kulturminner og identitet i Midtøsten' [Cultural remains and identity in the Middle East], Museumsnytt, l, 2, 2001, 24-25.

    • Kjetil Bjorvatn, 'Islamic economics and economic development', Forum for Development Studies, 2, 1998, 229-43.

    • Anders Bjørkelo, 'Noen karakteristiske trekk ved økonomisk virksomhet i Det osmanske riket' [Some characteristic features of economic activity in the Ottoman empire], Den Jyske Historiker, 86/87, 1999, 121-43.

    • Ingvild Gilhus, 'Family Structures in Gnostic Texts', in Halvor Moxnes (ed.), Constructing Early Christian Families, London 1997.
    • Ingvild Gilhus, 'Sophias tjenere: Gnostisisme og gnostiske studier i Norge' [The servants of Sophia: Gnosticism and gnostic studies in Norway], in Inger Marie Ruud and Sigurd Hjelde (eds.), Enhet i mangfold? 100 år med religionshistorie i Norge, Oslo 1998, 62-80.
    • Ingvild Gilhus, 'Kropp og identitet i tidlig kristendom' [Body and identity in early Christianity], Antikkprogrammets småskrifter, 4, [Oslo] 1998, 16-38.
    • Ingvild Gilhus, '"Jomfruen som maktene ikke besudlet". Tanker om kjønn og frelse i den gnostiske teksten Arkontenes natur', ['The virgin that the powers did not soil'. Considerations on gender and salvation in the Gnostic text 'The nature of the Arkontenes'], Kvinneforskning, 1999, 43-51.

    • Gunnar and Randi Håland, 'Who speaks the Goddess' Language. Imagination and Method in Archeological Research', Norwegian Archaeological Review, 2, 1995, 17 pp.
    • Gunnar and Randi Håland, 'Levels of Meaning in Symbolic Objects', Cambridge Journal of Archaeology, 1996.
    • Gunnar Håland and Randi Håland, 'The Social Life of Iron. A Cross-cultural Study of Technological, Cognitive and Political Aspects of Iron Symbolism', Anthropos, 1, 2002.

    • Randi Håland, 'Cultivation and domestication: Separate but independent processes in the emergence of agriculture', in Gilbert Pwiti and Robert Soper (eds.), Aspects of African Archaeology, Harare 1996.

    • Ahmed M. Jiyad, 'The social balance sheet of privatisation in the Arab countries', in Sabour & Vikør, Ethnic Encounter and Culture Change, 179-208.

    • Anh Nga Longva, 'Current debates on the construction of culture: How to make the anthropological concept fit a contemporary world', in Susanna Solli, Arild Thomassen and Per Otnes (eds.), Sosiologisk Årbok 1997. 2.1, 1, 1997, 155-76.

    • Leif Manger, 'Muslim Diversity', in Manger, Muslim Diversity, 1-36.
    • Leif Manger, 'September 11 and October 7: from Human Tragedy to Power Politics', Social Analysis, xlvi, 1, 2002.

    • J. Chr. Meyer, 'Middelhavet: centrum eller periferi' [The Mediterranean: Center or periphery?], in Geir Atle Ersland and Edgar Hovland (eds.), Festskrift til Historisk institutts 40-års jubileum, Univ of Bergen: Dept. of History 1997, 1-12.
    • J. Chr. Meyer, 'Den græsk-romerske civilisation og Mellemøstens verden' [Greco-Roman civilization and the Middle Eastern world], Den Jydske Historiker, 86/87, 1999, 57-79.

    • Richard J. Natvig, 'Tekstar til islam. Kompendium til religionsvitskap' [Texts on Islam. Study material for the history of religions], Bergen: University of Bergen 1998, 47 pp.
    • Richard J. Natvig, 'Arabic Writings on zar', Sudanic Africa, 9, 1998, 163-78.

    • R.S. O'Fahey, 'Games, dancing and handclapping', a Sufi controversy in South Arabia', in Vikør & Pava, The Middle East: Unity and Diversity, 123-32.
    • R.S. O'Fahey and Bernd Radtke, 'Miscellaneous letters', in Thomassen & Radtke, Letters of Ahmad ibn Idris, 144-75.
    • R.S. O'Fahey and Bernd Radtke, 'Neo-Sufism Reconsidered', Der Islam, lxx, 1993, 52-87.
    • R.S. O'Fahey, 'Ahmad ibn Idris' and 'The Idrisiyah', in J. Esposito (ed.), The Oxford Encyclopedia of the Modern Islamic World, New York 1995, ii, 167-8, 177-8.
    • R.S. O'Fahey, 'Fez, Ahmad b. Idris and Islamic Africa', in Fes et l'Afrique. relations economiques, culturelles et spirituelles. Actes du Colloque International. Fes, 28.-30. octobre 1993, Rabat 1996, 73-93.
    • R.S. O'Fahey, John O'Kane, and Bernd Radtke, 'Two Sufi treaties of Ahmad ibn Idris', Oriens, xxv, 1996, 143-78.
    • R.S. O'Fahey, 'Pietism, Fundamentalism and Mysticism. An alternative view of the 18th and 19th century Islamic World', in Geir Atle Ersland and Edgar Hovland (eds.), Festskrift til Historisk institutts 40-års jubileum, Bergen: Dept of History 1997, 151-66.

    • Inger Marie Okkenhaug and Anne K. Bang, 'Oppdagelsesreisende i skjørt: To britiske kvinner i imperiets grenseland' [Travellers in skirts: Two British women in the borderland of the Empire], Historie. Populærhistorisk magasin, 4, 1997, 4-18.
    • Inger Marie Okkenhaug, 'Maternal Imperialism or Colonialism as a "Multi-faceted experience"', Historisk tidsskrift, 77, 1, 1998, 51-61.

    • Einar Thomassen, 'The Platonic and the Gnostic "Demiurge"', in Per Bilde, Helge Kjær Nielsen and Jørgen Podemann Sørensen, Apocryphon Severini, presented to Søren Giversen, Aarhus 1993, 226-44.
    • Einar Thomassen, 'Islam'. Oslo: Biblioteksentralen 1994.
    • Einar Thomassen, 'Exodus 1-15, exempelvis', in Om tolking III. En text: flera tolkingar. Tro & Tanke 5, 1994, 91-104.
    • Einar Thomassen, 'J. Zandee: The Teachings of Sylvanus', Bibliotheca Orientalis, 50, 1994.
    • Einar Thomassen, 'L'historie du valentinisme et le Traité tripartite', Annuaire de l'École Pratique des Hautes Études, 103, 1995, 301-3.
    • Einar Thomassen, 'Logos apo siges proelthon (Ignatius, Mag. 8:2)', in Tord Fornberg and David Hellholm (eds.), Texts and Contexts: Biblical Texts in their Textual and Situationa Contexts. Essays in Honor of Lars Hartman, Oslo 1995, 847-67.
    • Einar Thomassen, 'Notes pour la délimitation d'un corpus valentinien à Nag Hammadi', in L. Painchaud et A. Pasquier (eds.), Les textes de Nag Hammadi et le problème de leur classification: Actes du colloque à Québec du 15 au 19 septembre 1993, Québec-Louvain 1995, 243-59.
    • Einar Thomassen, 'Ortodoksi og heterodoksi i andre århundrets Roma' [Orthodoxy and heterodoxy in 2nd century Rome], Patrisica nordica, 4, Lund 1995, 39-55.
    • Einar Thomassen, 'Satansversene: Fiksjon og fakta' [The Satanic verses: Fiction and facts], Chaos, 28, 1997, 41-52.
    • Einar Thomassen, 'How Valentinian is The Gospel of Philip?', in John D. Turner and Anne McGuire (eds.), The Nag Hammadi Library After Fifty Years: Proceedings of the 1995 Society of Biblical Literature Commemoration, Leiden 1997, 251-79.
    • Einar Thomassen, 'Moskérommet', Bilde, rom og fortelling, 1998, 57-61.
    • Einar Thomassen, 'Islam', in E. Thomassen and T. Rasmussen (eds.), Kildesamling til Kristendomskunnskap med religions- og livssynsorientering, i, Oslo 1999, 178-284.
    • Einar Thomassen, Kristendommen: En historisk innføring [Christianity: an historical introduction] (w. T. Rasmussen). Oslo 2000.
    • Einar Thomassen, 'Et gnostisk syn på oppstandelsen' [A Gnostic view of the resurrection], in Gilhus and Engberg-Pedersen (eds.), Kropp og oppstandelse, Oslo 2001, 128-33.
    • Einar Thomassen, 'Jesu hemmelige ord: Thomasevangeliet og andre apokryfe evangelier' [Jesus's secret words: The gospel of Thomas and other apocryphical gospels], in P2-Akademiet Y, Oslo 2002, 85-94.
    • Einar Thomassen, 'Om å tolke Koranen' [On interpreting the Koran],Religion og livssyn, 15, 1, 2003, 42-7.

    • Terje Tvedt and E. Barkved, 'Forskning om vann. Prosjektkatalog og litteraturoversikt' [Research on Water. A project catalogue and bibliographical survey], Oslo 1995, 381 pp.

    • Knut S. Vikør, 'Fundamentalisme, islamisme eller politisk islam' [Fundamentalism, Islamism or Political Islam], Web, April 1995: http://www.hf.uib.no/smi/no/Islamisme.html.
    • Knut S. Vikør, 'Shi'ismen - historias lim?' [Shi'ism: the glue of history?], Tidsskrift för mellanösternstudier, 2, 1996, 79-93.
    • Knut S. Vikør, 'Politisk islam - fundament eller utvekst?' [Political Islam - fundament or malignancy?], in Øyvind Bjørnson, Egil Nysæter and Arve Kjell Uthaug (eds.), Til debatt: Innlegg ved Norske historiedagar 1996, Bergen: Dept. of History 1998, 83-96.
    • Knut S. Vikør, 'The Shari'a and the nation state: who can codify the divine law?', in Utvik & Vikør, The Middle East in a Globalized World, 220-50.
    • Knut S. Vikør, 'Jihad, 'ilm and tasawwuf - two justifications of action from the Idrisi tradition', Studia Islamica, xc, 2000, 153-76.
    • Knut S. Vikør, 'Skal vi støtte islamismen?' and 'Korleis blir islamist-samfunnet?' [Should we support Islamism / What would the Islamist society look like?], Klassekampen, 16.1.02, 3, and 17.1.02, 3.
    • Knut S. Vikør, 'Islam - mønster eller fiende?' [Islam: model or enemy?], Klassekampen, 24.1.02, 14-16.
    • Knut S. Vikør, 'Assassinarane: dei første terroristane?' [The Assassins: The first terrorists?], Historie, 1, 2003, 8-15.
    • Knut S. Vikør, '"The Truth about Cats and Dogs": The historicity of early Islamic law', Historisk Tidsskrift, lxxxii, 1, 2003, 1-17.

    • Tor Aase, 'Symbolic space. Representations of space in geography and anthropology', Geografiska annaler, 76, 1, 1994, 51-8.

      >> See also Gulf Countries (Jiyad; Longva); Central Asia (Grønhaug);
      - also Books: Ask & Tjomsland, Women and Islamization; Jenssen, Subtleties and Secrets; Manger, Muslim Diversity; Radtke & al., Exoteric; Rasmussen & Thomassen, Kristendommen; Thomassen, Apokryfe; Thomassen & Gilhus, Gnostiske; Thomassen & Radtke, Letters; Vikør, Ei verd (& 2nd edn); Sufi; Sources; Islam; Mellom Gud; Vikør & Palva, Unity; Vikør & Sabour, Ethnic; Vikør & Utvik, Globalized; Aase, Tournaments;
      - Doctoral dissertations: Sedgwick, Gule,
      - and Master's theses: Bakka, Fjeldstad, Halskau, Jenssen, Klausen, Lied, Olsson, Thomassen, Wang, Aarseth.

    Maghreb

    Morocco

    Algeria

    • David Hogstad, 'Og fortsatt feirer vi martyrer: En tentativ lesning av de algierske borgerkriger' [And we still celebrate martyrs: A tentative reading of the Algerian civil wars], Samtiden, 4, 1998, 36-42.
    • Knut S. Vikør, 'Algerie: kvifor valden?' [Algeria: why the violence?], Syn og Segn, civ, 2, 1998, 172-9.

      >> See also Master's theses: Fuglestad, Solstad Olsen.

    Tunisia

    • Marit Tjomsland, 'Kvinner i Tunisia: frihet eller likevekt?' [Women in Tunisia: Freedom or equality?], 3. verden-magasinet X, 5, 1995, 28-9.
    • Knut S. Vikør, 'al-Wisyani', in The Encyclopaedia of Islam, New edn. Leiden 2002, XI, 212-13.

      >> See also Doctoral dissertations: Tjomsland,
      - and Master's theses: Kjeilen, Olsen.

    Libya / Sahara

    • Knut S. Vikør, 'Mystics in the Desert: The Sanusiya and the Sahara' in Vikør & Palva, The Middle East: Unity and Diversity, 133-45.
    • Knut S. Vikør, 'The Sanusiyya Tradition', in O'Fahey, Arabic Literature of Africa, I, 166-78.
    • Knut S. Vikør, 'Recent Ibadi writings', Saharan Studies Association Newsletter, i, 1993, 11-12.
    • Knut S. Vikør, 'Developments in Sanusi studies', SSA Newsletter, ii, 1993, 14-16.
    • Knut S. Vikør, 'Sanusiyah' & 'Umar al-Mukhtar', in J. Esposito (ed.), The Oxford Encyclopedia of the Modern Islamic World, New York 1995, iii, 175-6, 473-4.
    • Knut S. Vikør, 'Muhammad b. 'Ali al-Sanusi: A Fasi graduate in the Central Sahara', in Fès et l'Afrique: Relations economiques, culturelles et spirituelles, Rabat/Casablanca 1996, 95-105.
    • Knut S. Vikør, 'Sahara Desert', in John Middleton (ed.), Encyclopedia of Africa south of the Sahara, New York 1997, iv, 27-30.
    • Knut S. Vikør, 'Opening the Maliki school: Muhammad b. 'Ali al-Sanusi's views on the madhhab', Journal of Libyan Studies, i, 1, 2000, 5-17.
    • Knut S. Vikør, 'Zawila', in The Encyclopaedia of Islam, New edn. Leiden 2002, XI, 466.
    • Knut S. Vikør, 'Sufism and social welfare in the Sahara', in H. Weiss (ed.), Islam and welfare in Africa, Uppsala 2002, 80-97.
    • Knut S. Vikør, 'The Sanusiya', in Richard A. Lobban, Jr., Robert S. Kramer and Carolyn Fluehr-Lobban (eds.), Historical Dictionary of the Sudan, 3rd edn, Lanham MD, 2002, 244-5.

      >> See also Books: Vikør, Oasis; Sufi; Sources.

    West Africa, Africa general

    • Anders Bjørkelo, 'Verdenshistorie: Studiebok' [World history. A study guide. Co-author]. Bergen: Section for Further Education 1998.
    • John O. Hunwick, 'Not yet the Kano chronicle: king-lists with and without narrative elaboration from 19th century Kano', Sudanic Africa, 4, 1993, 95-130.
    • John O. Hunwick, 'Bibliography of Kasar Kano', Sudanic Africa, 4, 1993, 131-54.
    • John O. Hunwick, 'A historical whodunit: the so-called "Kano Chronicle" and its place in the historiography of Kano', History in Africa, 21, 1994, 127-46.
    • John O. Hunwick, 'Gao and the Almoravids revisited: ethnicity, political change and the limits of interpretation', Journal of African History, xxxv, 1994, 2, 251-73.
    • R.S. O'Fahey, '"They Have Become Privileged of God and his Prophet" mahram and zawiya in Sudanic Africa', in John Hunwick and Nancy Lawler (eds.), The Cloth of Many Colored Silks: papers on history and society Ghanaian and Islamic in honor of Ivor Wilks, Evanston 1996, 339-54.
    • R.S. O'Fahey, J.O. Hunwick, S. Kanya-Forstner, Paul Lovejoy, and al-Amin Abu-Manga, 'Between Niger and Nile: new light on the Fulani Mahdist Muhammad al-Dadari', Sudanic Africa, 8, 1998, 85-108.
    • Knut S. Vikør, 'Islamsk lov og reform i Afrika' [Islamic Law and Reform in Africa], 3. verden-magasinet X, 5, 1995, 24-5.
    • Knut S. Vikør, 'Jihad in West Africa: A global theme in a regional setting', Muslim Diversity, 80-101.
    • Knut S. Vikør, 'Sufi Brotherhoods in Africa', in N. Levtzion and R. Pouwels (eds.), The History of Islam in Africa, Athens, OH 2000, 441-76.

      >> See also Books: Bang & Kjerland, Nordmenn; Hunwick, ALA 2; Vikør, Oasis;
      - and Master's theses: Mestad.

    Egypt

    • Joseph N. Bell, 'Ethical motifs in Egyptian sung religious narratives: On choosing a spouse', Oriens, 34, 1994.
    • Ragnhild Bjerre Finnestad, 'En helgen blir til' [A saint is created], Chaos. Dansk-norsk religionshistorisk tidsskrift, 20, 1993.
    • Ragnhild Bjerre Finnestad, 'Apparitions, icons and photos: A study of modern Coptic visions of the holy world', Temenos. Studies in Comparative religion, 30, 1994.
    • Ragnhild Bjerre Finnestad, 'Images as Messengers of Coptic Identity. An example from contemporary Egypt', in Tore Ahlbäck (ed.), Dance, Music, Art, and Religion, Åbo 1996, 91-110.
    • Ragnhild Bjerre Finnestad, 'Mirakler ved Nilens bredd: Om en levende mirakeltradisjon' [Miracles at the banks of the Nile: On a living tradition of miracles], in Ingvild Sælid Gilhus (ed.), Miraklenes tid, Oslo:Norwegian Research Council 1997, 32-50.
    • Ragnhild Bjerre Finnestad, 'Temples in the Ptolemaic and Roman Periods: Ancient Traditions in New Contexts', in Byron E. Shafer (ed.), Temples of Ancient Egypt, Ithaca, NY 1997.
    • Ingvild Gilhus, 'Kjærlighetens kraft i egyptisk magi' [The force of love in Egyptian magic], in Siri Meyer and Kjell Roger Soleim (eds.), Kjærlighetssymposiet, Oslo 1997, 139-54 & Chaos, 31 1999, 9-23.
    • Tomas Hägg, 'After 300 years: A new critical edition of the Greek Life of St. Antony', Classica et Mediaevalia, 48, 1997, 267-81.
    • Herbjørn Jenssen, 'Perletreet: slavinnen som ble "muslimenes dronning"' [The Pearl Tree: The slave who became the "Queen of the Muslims"], Historie, v, 2, 1995, 52-60.
    • R.S. O'Fahey, 'Utopia i Egypt: Saint-simonistenes møte med Muhammad Alis Egypt, 1833-1836' [Utopia in Egypt. The Saint Simonians' encounter with Muhammad Ali's Egypt], Historie, 1, 1998, 16-21.
    • Inger Marie Okkenhaug, 'Henrik Ibsen, Khedivens gjest i Egypt i 1869' [HI, guest of the khedive], in Bang & Kjerland, Nordmenn i Afrika/Afrikanere i Norge, Bergen 2002, 93-106.
    • Richard H. Pierce, 'Hendrikus Milde: The vignettes in the Book of Dead of Neferrenpet', Acta Orientalia, lv, 1994.
    • Richard Holton Pierce, 'A sale of an alodian slave girl: A reexamination of papyrus Strassburg inv. 1404', Symbolae Osloenses, lxx, 1995, 148-66.
    • Richard Holton Pierce, S. Ayyad, and K. Krzywinski, 'Exploratory palynological studies on some tombs at Saqqara. Report to Antiquity Service, Egypt', Bergen: Dept. of Botany, 1995.
    • Knut S. Vikør, 'Nasser: Arabisk stoltheit og sosialisme' [Nasser: Arabic pride and socialism], Midtøsten-forum, 1, 1993, 36-41.

      >> See also Middle East general (Thomassen), Sudan (Håland, Hägg, Tvedt);
      - also Books: Bell, Seven days; Krzywinski & Pierce, Deserting the Desert; T. Eide &al, Fontes 1-4; Tvedt, Bibliography Nile;
      - and Master's theses: Badawy, Barka, Engelstad, Hasselberg, Hjelle, Håvardstun, Kvalsvik, Olsson, Omvik, Steiner, Vatne.

    Sudan

    • Abdel Rahman Abakr, 'The Development of the Livestock Sector in the Sudan: a Case Study of Public Policy Analysis', CDS.

    • Ahmed Ibrahim Abu Shouk, 'Kordofan from tribes to nazirate', in M. Kevane and E. Stiansen (eds.) Kordofan invaded: Peripheral incorporation and social transformation in Islamic Africa, Leiden 1998, 120-44.
    • Ahmed I. Abu Shouk, 'Governors of Kordofan (1821-1955)', Sudanic Africa, 8, 1998, 67-83.
    • Ahmed Ibrahim Abu Shouk, 'A Bibliography of the Mahdist State in the Sudan, 1881-1898', Sudanic Africa, 10, 1999, 133-68.
    • Ahmed Ibrahim Abu Shouk, 'Al-Imam 'Abd al-Rahman al-Mahdi: Khabir al-munawara al-siyasiya', al-Khartum, Cairo 4-11.5.1999.
    • Ahmed Ibrahim Abu Shouk, 'Al-Nazir 'Abd al-Jabbar Husayn Zaki al-Din (1903-1999): Rahil jil bi-kamil malamihihi', al-Khartum, Cairo 24.3.1999.
    • Ahmed Ibrahim Abu Shouk, 'The Legal Methodology of the Mahdist Legislation in the Sudan, 1881-1885', Dirasat Sudaniyya, Cairo.
    • Ahmed Ibrahim Abu Shouk, 'The Mahdiyya and the People of al-Matamma', Dirasat Sudaniyya, Cairo.
    • Ahmed I. Abu Shouk, John O. Hunwick and R.S. O'Fahey, 'A Sudanese Missionary to the United States: Satti Majid, "Shaykh al-Islam in North America" and his encounter with Noble Drew Ali, Prophet of the Moorish Science Temple Movement', Sudanic Africa, 8, 1998, 137-91.

    • Munzoul A. Assal, 'A discipline asserting its identity and place: displacement, aid and anthropology in Sudan', Eastern Africa Social Science Research Review, xviii, 1, 2002, 63-96, and in Abdul Ghaffar M. Ahmed (with Munzoul A. Assal, M.A.M. Salih and Idris S. El Hassan), Anthropology in the Sudan: reflections by a Sudanese anthropologist, Utrecht 2002, 95-128.
    • Munzoul A. Assal, 'Displacement, aid and the predicament of the anthropologist: some remarks from Sudan', Sudan Studies, xxviii, 2001, 2-27.

    • Anders Bjørkelo, 'Some recent efforts to photograph, analyse and publish private papers from the period 1750-1900 in the Northern Sudan', in Proceedings from the Seventh International Conference of the Society for Nubian Studies in Geneva, Switzerland, 3.9.-8.9.90, 1993.
    • Anders Bjørkelo, 'Sudan og skrifta på veggen [Sudan and writing on the wall]', Bergens Tidende, 15.2.93.
    • Anders Bjørkelo, 'Shandi', in Enclyclopaedia of Islam, ix, Leiden 1997, 300-1.
    • Anders Bjørkelo, 'Credit, loans and obligations in the Nineteenth century Sudan', in Geir Atle Ersland and Edgar Hovland (eds.), Festskrift til Historisk institutts 40-års jubileum, Bergen: Dept. of History 1997, 167-84.
    • Anders Bjørkelo, 'The territorial unification and administrative divisions of Turkish Sudan, 1821-1855', Sudan Notes and Records, n.s. 1, 1997, 25-46.
    • Anders Bjørkelo, 'Islamic contracts in economic transactions in the Sudan', August 1998: http://www.hf.uib.no/smi/pao/bjorkelo.html
    • Anders Bjørkelo and Mustafa A. Ali, 'An early extract from the Tabaqat of Wad Dayf Allah', [in Arabic], al-Huruf, 4, Khartoum 1993, 113-24.

    • Omar Abdalla Egeimi, 'From adaptation to marginalization. The political ecology of subsistence crisis among the Hadendowa pastoralists of Eastern Sudan', in M.A. Abdel Ghaffar and H.A. Abdel Ati, Mananging scarcity: Human adaptation in East African Drylands, Addis Abeba 1996.

    • Sharif Harir, 'Militarization of Conflict, Displacement and the Legitimacy of the State: A Case from Dar Fur - Western Sudan', in Tvedt, Conflicts in the Horn of Africa , 14-26.
    • Sharif Harir, 'Recycling the Past in the Sudan', and '"Arab Belt" versus "African Belt": Ethno-political conflict in Dar Fur and the regional cultural factors', in Harir & Tvedt, Short-cut to Decay , 10-69, 144-85.
    • Sharif Harir, 'Divided Lands, United "Peoples": the Sudan/Chad Borders from a Zaghawa Perspective'. CDS 1994.
    • Sharif Harir, 'Management of scarce resources: Dryland pastoralism among the Zaghawa of Chad and the crisis of the eighties', in M.A. Abdel Ghaffar and H.A. Abdel Ati, Mananging scarcity: Human adaptation in East African Drylands, Addis Abeba 1996..
    • Sharif Harir, 'The Mosque and the sacred mountain: duality in local beliefs among the Zaghawa of Northwestern Sudan', in Manger, Muslim Diversity, 200-23.
    • Sharif Harir, Kjell Hødnebø and Terje Tvedt, 'A chronology of the Sudan 1972-93', in Harir and Tvedt, Short-cut to Decay , 259-74.
    • Sharif Harir and M.A. Mohamed Salih, 'Tribal militias. The genesis of national disintegration', in Harir and Tvedt, Short-cut to Decay , 186-203.

    • Albrecht Hofheinz, 'Der Scheich im Über-Ich, oder Haben Muslime ein Gewissen? Zum Prozess der Verinnerlichung schriftislamischer Normen in Suakin im fruhen 19. Jahrhundert', Wuqûf, 7-8 (1992-1993), 461-81.
    • Albrecht Hofheinz, 'Letters to Muhammad al-Majdhub', in Thomassen & Radtke, The Letters of Ahmad Ibn Idris, 119-43.
    • Albrecht Hofheinz,'The Writings of the Majadhib' and 'The Khatmiyya Tradition', in O'Fahey, Arabic Literature of Africa, 1 , 178-227, 243-76.
    • Albrecht Hofheinz, Abu Agla el Husein and R.S. O'Fahey, 'The Sudan', in World Survey of Islamic Manuscripts, III, Leiden/London 1994, 137-54.
    • Albrecht Hofheinz, 'Sawakin', in Encyclopaedia of Islam, ix, Leiden 1997, 87-9.
    • Albrecht Hofheinz and R.S. O'Fahey, 'Popular Poetry', in O'Fahey, Arabic Literature of Africa, 1 , 73-90.

    • Tomas Hägg, 'Magic Bowls Inscribed with an Apostles-and-Disciples Catalogue from the Christian Settlement of Hambukol (Upper Nubia)', Orientalia (Roma), lxii, 4, 1993, 376-99.
    • Tomas Hägg, 'Greek in Upper Nubia: An Assessment of the New Material', in Dominique Valbelle (ed.), Actes de la VIIIe Conference Internationale des Etudes Nubiennes. Lille 11-17 Septembre 1994. III. Etudes, Lille 1998, 113-19.
    • Tomas Hägg, 'Nubia' in G.W. Bowersock, P. Brown and O. Grabar (eds.), Late Antiquity: A Guide to the Postclassical World, Cambridge, MA 1999, 613-14.

    • Kjell Hødnebø, 'Comments on: J. Rowe: Rinderpest in the Sudan 1888-1890: The Mystery of the missing Panzootic', Sudanic Africa, 5, 1994, 166-78.

    • Gunnar Håland, 'Beer, Blood and Mother's Milk: The symbolic context of economic behaviour in the society', Sudan Notes and Records, n.s. 2, 1998, 53-76.

    • Randi Håland 'Aqualithic sites in the Middle Nile Region', Azania. Journal of the British Institute in Eastern Africa, xxix, 1993.
    • Randi Håland, 'Emergence of sedentism: New ways of living, new ways of symbolizing', Antiquity, lxxi/272, 1997, 371-85.
    • Randi Håland, 'The Puzzle of the Late Emergence of Domesticated Sorghum in the Nile Valley', in Chris Gosden and Jon Hather (eds.), The Prehistory of Food, London 1999, 397-418.
    • Randi Håland, 'The ways of women: Sedentism and the importance of hearth centered activities', in Et hus med mange rom. Vennebok til Bjørn Myhre på 60-årsdagen, Stavanger 1999, 65-82.
    • Randi Håland and Anwar A. Magid, 'Introduction', 'Archaeological excavations', and 'Radiocarbon dates', in Håland & Magid, Aqualithic sites, 9-16, 17-29, 47-51.

    • Frode Fadnes Jacobsen, 'Noen betraktninger omkring duft, smitte og objektenes iboende essens' [Some reflections on odour, infections and the inherent nature of objects], Norsk Antropologisk Tidsskrift, viii, 3-4, 1997, 177-92.
    • Frode Fadnes Jacobsen, 'Interpretations of sickness and misfortune among Beja pastoralists', Anthropology & Medicine, v, 2, 1998, 145-92.

    • Else Johansen Kleppe, 'The Funj problem in archaeological perspective', Sudan Notes and Records, n.s. 1, 1997, 1-24.

    • Anwar A. Magid, 'The lithic material', 'Plant remains and their implications', in Håland & Magid, Aqualithic sites, 53-83, 147-77.
    • Anwar Magid, 'The Development of the Livestock Sector in the Sudan: a Case Study of Public Policy Analysis', Bergen: Centre for Development Studies 1995.
    • Anwar Magid, 'Ancient waystations in the southern Red Sea Hills (Sudan): a new discovery', Sudan Notes and Records, n.s. 2, 1998, 1-12.
    • Anwar A. Magid and A.H. el Nadi: 'The areas of Aneibis, Abu Barbein and El Damer today', in Håland & Magid, Aqualithic sites, 30-46.
    • Anwar A. Magid and K. Krzwinski, 'The method of making positive casts of plant impressions in pottery: a field and laboratory manual, Acta palaeobotanica, xxxv, 1, 1995.
    • Anwar A. Magid, K. Krzwinski and R. Pierce: 'Preliminary results of the study of stone structures in the Red Sea Hills', Kush, xvii, 1994.
    • Anwar Magid, R.H. Pierce and K. Krzywinski, 'Results of a preliminary survey of stone monuments of the southern Red Sea Hills, Sudan', Kush, 1995.
    • Anwar Magid, Richard Holton Pierce, and Knut Krzywinski, 'Results of a preliminary survey of stone monuments in the Red Sea Hills, Sudan', Kush, 17, 1997, 19-32.

    • Leif Manger, 'Public Schemes and Local Participation: some remarks on the present situation in the Southern Nuba Mountains Area of the Sudan', Sudan Notes and Records, 1993.
    • Leif O. Manger, 'Managing Natural Resources in a Pastoral Community: some issues relating to the Beja of the Red Sea Hills in the Sudan', in H. Secher Marcussen (ed.), Improved Natural Resource Management: the role of the state versus that of the local community, Roskilde 1994 (also in IIED: Issues Paper No. 52, September 1994. London: International Institute for Environment and Development).
    • Leif Manger, 'On Becoming Muslim: The construction of identity among the Lafofa Nuba of the Sudan', in Cultural Diversity and Nationbuilding in the Sudan, [n.p.?]: Sudan Studies Association 1995.
    • Leif Manger, 'Land Tenure and Pastoral Planning in the Red Sea Hills', Human Adaptations in the East African Drylands, OSSREA and CDS 1995.
    • Leif Manger, 'Land tenure and pastoral planning in the Red Sea Hills', in M.A. Abdel Ghaffar and H.A. Abdel Ati (eds.), Mananging scarcity: Human adaptation in East African Drylands, Addis Abeba 1996.
    • Leif Manger, 'Making Ends Meet: Some Problems of Viability in Hadendowa Households', and 'The Future of Red Sea Hills Pastoralism: Links and Implications for Planning', in Manger, Survival on Meagre Resources, .
    • Leif Manger, 'The future of Red Sea Hills pastoralism: Links and implications for planning', in Manger, Survival on Meagre Resources.
    • Leif Manger, 'The Hadendowa Way of Life - Survival of a Cultural Tradition', in Manger, Survival on Meagre Resources:
    • Leif Manger, 'Local Resource Management in the Context of Civil War and Genocide: identity, cultural tradition and territory among the nuba of the Sudan', Journal of Social Sciences (Spesial issue on Resource management through indigeneous socio-cultural practices), 1998.
    • Leif Manger, 'Pastoralist-State Relationships Among the Hadendowa Beja of Eastern Sudan', Nomadic People: Management Through Indigeneous Socio-Cultural Practices, 1998.
    • Leif Manger, 'Muslim Diversity: Local Islam in Global Contexts', in Manger, Muslim Diversity, 1-36.
    • Leif Manger, 'On becoming Muslim: The construction of identities among the Lafofa of the Sudan', Muslim Diversity, 224-43.
    • Leif Manger, Hassan Abd el Ati, and Ole Reidar Vetaas, 'Vegetation Dynamics in the Red Sea Hills: Continuities and Changes', in Manger, Survival on Meagre Resources,
    • Leif Manger, Knut Krzywinski, and Ole Reidar Vetaas, 'The Natural Environment of the Red Sea Hills: Lessons in Variability', in Manger, Survival on Meagre Resources,
    • Leif Manger, Salah Shazeli, Adil Mohamed Elkhidir, and Mustafa Mohamen Osman, 'Evalution Report on the Joint Project, Sinkat, Red Sea State - Sudan', Oslo 1996.
    • Leif Manger, 'Pastoralist - State Relationships among the Hadenowa Beja of eastern Sudan', Nomadic People, v, 2, 2001.
    • Leif Manger, 'Religion, Identities and Politics: Defining Muslim Discourse in the Nuba Mountains in the Sudan', Journal of Arabic and Islamic Studies, iv, 2001-02. <http://www.uib.no/jais/v004/manger1_prp.pdf>
    • Leif Manger, 'The Nuba Mountains: Battlegrounds of identities, cultural traditions and territories', in Niels Kastfedt (ed), Sudanese Society in the Context of Civil War, Copenhagen 2001.

    • R.S. O'Fahey, 'Islamic Hegemonies in the Sudan: Sufism, Mahdism and Islamism', in Louis Brenner (ed.), Muslim Identity and Social Change in Sub-Saharan Africa, London & Bloomington 1993, 21-35.
    • R.S. O'Fahey, 'Darfur from a historian's perspective', Sudanow, February 1994, 28-33 (interview).
    • R.S. O'Fahey, 'The Past in the Present? The issue of the Sharia in the Sudan', in M. Twaddle and Holger Bengt Hansen, Religion and Politics in East Africa, London 1994.
    • R.S. O'Fahey, 'Some Recent Sudanese Biographies, Memoirs, and Histories (including Music): A Bibliographical Note', Sudanic Africa, 6, 1995, 137-55.
    • R.S. O'Fahey, 'A Hitherto "Unknown" Darfur King-List', Sudanic Africa, 6, 1995, 157-69.
    • R.S. O'Fahey, 'Islam and ethnicity in the Sudan', Journal of Religion in Africa, xxvi, 1, 1996, 1-10.
    • R.S. O'Fahey, '"His Master's Voice": the Sufis, the Mahdists and Printing', Culture and History, xvi, 1997, 136-44.
    • R.S. O'Fahey, 'Defining the Community: the National Islamic Front, its opponents and the Sharia issue', in Suvikki Silvennoinen and Markku Suksi (eds.), Human Rights and Religion: The case of the Sudan, Åbo: Institute for Human Rights 1997, 101-13.
    • R.S. O'Fahey, 'Endowment, privilege and estate in the Central and Eastern Sudan', Islamic Law and Society, iv, 3, 1997, 334-51.
    • R.S. O'Fahey, 'The Conquest of Darfur, 1873-1882', Sudan Notes and Records, n.s. 1, 1997, 47-67.
    • R.S. O'Fahey, 'Richard Hill 1901-1996: Writings', Sudanic Africa, 8, 1997, 1-15.
    • R.S. O'Fahey and M.I. Abu Salim, 'A Sudanese in Indonesia. A note on Ahmad Muhammad Surkitti', Indonesia Circle, 59-60, November 1992-March 1993, 68-72.
    • R.S. O'Fahey, and A.I. Abu Shouk, 'The Musabba'at of Jugo Jugo: Three Documents', Sudanic Africa, 10, 1999, 49-64.
    • R.S. O'Fahey, 'Ali Salih Karrar and Yahya Muhammad Ibrahim, 'The Life and Writings of a Sudanese Historian: Muhammad 'Abd al-Rahim (1878-1966), Sudanic Africa, 6, 1995, 125-36.
    • R.S. O'Fahey and Einar Thomassen, 'Letters to Makki b. 'Abd al-'Aziz', in Thomassen & Radtke, The Letters of Ahmad ibn Idris , 11-41.

    • Richard Holton Pierce, Anwar A Magid and K. Krzywinski, 'Test excavations in The Southern Red Sea Hills (Sudan): Cultural Linkages to The North', Archeologie du Nil Moyen, vii, 1996, 163-90.

    • Endre Stiansen, 'Kampen mot renta' [The struggle against interest], 3. verden-magasinet X, 5, 1995, 30-1.

    • Frode Storås, 'Lafon: på savannen sør i Sudan' [Lafofa: on the svannah south in Sudan], in Årbok for Bergen Museum 2001, Bergen 2002.

    • Terje Tvedt, 'A partially annotated bibliography on the River Nile' (2 vols), CDS.
    • Terje Tvedt, 'Uneven Regional Development in the Sudan: The Role of the Nile Waters', Sudan Notes and Records, 1993.
    • Terje Tvedt, 'Consequences of the First World War in the Blue Nile Basin', and 'The river Nile as stick and carrot: changing water policies in the aftermath of the World War I', in Tvedt, Conflicts in the Horn of Africa , 181-202.
    • Terje Tvedt, 'The Collapse of the State in the Southern Sudan after the Addis Ababa Agreement. A study of internal causes and the role of the NGOs', in Harir and Tvedt, Short-cut to Decay , 69-104.
    • Terje Tvedt, 'The Nile Waters and the Decline of British Imperialism: A History of the Aswan Power and Fertilizer Scheme 1935-1945', Bergen: Centre for Development Studies (SFU publikasjonsserie 6) 1996, 34 pp.
    • Terje Tvedt, 'The Collapse of the State in Southern Sudan after the Addis Ababa Agreement. A Study of Internal Causes and the Role Of the NGOs', Bergen: Centre for Development Studies (SFU publikasjonsserie 7) 1996, 50 pp.

    • Vibeke Vågenes, 'Evaluation of Two Research Programmes in Gender Research: A Search for a Suitable Approach to the Geography of Gender'. Bergen: Dept. of Geography (Publ. no 187) 1994.
    • Vibeke Vågenes, 'Inwardness and outwardness: femininity and masculinity as essence of Hadendowa social organization, Red Sea Hills, Sudan', in Kristian Stokke and Roger Bivand, Investigating the Local: Structure, Place, Agency. Report from a Norwegian National Research Course in Human Geography, Bergen, September 1994, Bergen: Dept. of Geography (Monografier, Serie B, 1) 1995, 91-105.
    • Vibeke Vågenes, 'Male Outside and Female Inside - Spatial orientation in the Gender System of Hadendowa, northeast Sudan', Norsk Geografisk Tidsskrift, xlix, 3, 1995, 91-104.

      >> See also West Africa (O'Fahey);
      - also Books: Abu Shouk, Records of Kassala; Abu Salim; Bjørkelo & Abu Shouk, Public Treasure; Eide &al, Fontes 1-4 ; Harir & Tvedt, Shortcut; Håland & Magid, Aqualithic; Jacobsen, Theories of sickness; Krzywinski & Pierce, Deserting the Desert; Manger, Lafofa; Manger &al, Survival; O'Fahey, ALA 1; Thomassen & Radtke, Letters; Tvedt, Bibliography Sudan and Nile;
      - Doctoral dissertations: Abu Shouk, Assal, Egeimi, Hofheinz, Jacobsen, Hødnebø, Kleppe, Stiansen, Sørbø, Vågenes,
      - and Master's theses: Hafsaas, Renate Lunde, Uribe.

    Horn of Africa

    • Randi Håland, 'An ethnographic study of iron production in South Western Ethiopia', Nyame Akuma, liv, 2001, 6-13.
    • Randi Håland, 'Caste, identity and ritual practise among ironworkers in SW Ethiopia', in Tim Insoll (ed.), Trowelling Archaeology, Oxford 2003.
    • R.S. O'Fahey, 'Somalia', in World Survey of Islamic Manuscripts, III, Leiden/London, 1994, 89-90.

      >> See also East Africa (O'Fahey), Yemen (Hofheinz);
      - also Books: Tvedt, Conflicts;
      - and Doctoral dissertations: Assal.

    East & South Africa

    • Anne K. Bang, 'En prinsesses liv: Sayyida Salme alias Emily Ruete (1844-1924)' [The life of a Princess], Historie, 4, 1998, 18-25.
    • Anne K. Bang, 'Sjøfareren fra Spind. Kaptein Ludvig Larsen og "Livet før Døden"' [The Sailor from Spind: Captain Ludvig Larsen and his ship], Historie, 2, 1999, 54-63.
    • Anne K. Bang, 'Il Consolato Norvegese a Zanzibar', Storia Urbana, 1998/99, 137-150.
    • Anne K. Bang, 'Det norske konsulatet på Zanzibar, 1908-1928' [The Norwegian consulate on Zanzibar, 1908-1928] in Bang & Kjerland, Nordmenn i Afrika/Afrikanere i Norge, 117-30.
    • Anne K. Bang and Knut S. Vikør, 'A Tale of Three shambas: Shafi'i-Ibadi legal cooperation in the Zanzibar Protectorate', part 1: Sudanic Africa, 10, 1999, 1-26.
    • Sindre Bangstad, 'Revisiting Pagad: Machoism or Islamism', ISIM Newsletter, 11, 2002, 10.
    • Randi Håland, 'Dakawa, an Early Iron-Age site from East-Central Tanzania', NIAME AKUMA. Bulletin of the Society of Africanist Archaeology, xl, 1993.
    • Randi Håland, 'Pottery production, Iron working, and trade: the case of Dakawa', Azania, xxxvii, 2001, 1-31.
    • Kirsten Alsaker Kjerland, 'When African women take wives. A historiographic overview and a call for more studies', Uppsala: Scandinavian Institute of African Studies (Occasional Paper 6) 1997.
    • Kirsten Alsaker Kjerland, 'Med "svigerfar" og andre menn i felten. Kultur, kjønn og alder som hinder i afrikansk historie' [With "father-in-law" and other men in the field. Culture, gender and age as obstacles to African history writing], in Øyvind Bjørnson, Egil Nysæter and Arve Kjell Uthaug (eds.), Til debatt: Innlegg ved Norske historiedagar 1996, Bergen: Dept. of History 1998, 215-23.
    • Kirsten Alsaker Kjerland, 'Med historikeren på kildejakt: Følgetongen om R.E.S. Tanner' i: 'Jakt, kontakt, tenning'; ii, 'Møter, minne og matnytte'; iii: 'Kolonidokumenter som kilde til lokal- og miljøhistorie' [With the historian on a hunt for sources: The R.E.S. Tanner series. i: Hunt, contact, charge; ii: Meetings, memories and material; iii: Colonial documents as a source for local and environmental history], Historie, 4, 1998, 48-64; 1, 1999, 66-72; 2, 1999, 68-78.
    • Else Johansen Kleppe, 'To blow trade. Medieval Zanzibar and the Indian Ocean trade', AmS-Varia, 1995, 65-70.
    • Else Johansen Kleppe, 'Women in the trading network on medieval Zanzibar', K.A.N. 21, 1996, 139-162.
    • Leif Manger, 'Human Life in East African Drylands. Regional and Comparative Perspectives', Human Adaptations in the East African Drylands. OSSREA and CDS 1995.
    • R.S. O'Fahey, 'Tarika: In northeastern and eastern Africa', in Encyclopaedia of Islam, X, Leiden 1998, 248-50.
    • R.S. O'Fahey, and Knut S. Vikør, 'A Zanzibari waqf of books: the library of the Mundhiri family', Sudanic Africa, 7, 1996, 5-24.

      >> See also MidEast general (Natvig); Yemen (Manger);
      - also Books: Bang, Sufis;
      - Doctoral dissertations: Bang, Hødnebø, Kjerland.
      - and Master's theses: Bangstad, Fasmer, Husby, Silva, Tveita.

    Yemen

    • Anne K. Bang, 'Hans sverd skal brytes og hans hender hugges av. Islamsk justis anno 1909' [His sword shall be broken and his hands cut off. Islamic justice of 1909], Historie, v, 2, 1995, 54-60.
    • Anne K. Bang, '"This is an announcement to the people..." The Bayan of 1912 by Muhammad b. 'Ali al-Idrisi in 'Asir', New Arabian Studies, iv, 1997.
    • Anne K. Bang, 'Røkelsesveien fra Arabia Felix' [The road of frankinscence from Arabia Felix], Historie, 1, 1997, 26-9.
    • Albrecht Hofheinz, 'A Yemeni Library in Eritrea. Arabic manuscripts in the Italian foreign ministry', Der Islam, lxxii, 1, 98-136.
    • Leif Manger, 'Val i Jemen: håp eller farse' [Elections in the Yemen: Hope or farce?], Interposts Utenriksmagasin.
    • Leif Manger, and N. Sudhakar Rao, 'A Survey on Hadramis in Hyderabad', Bergen: Dept of Anthropology 1997.
    • Leif Manger, 'The Hadrami Diaspora in the Indian Ocean, Empirical and conceptual considerations'. The Northwestern Indian Ocean as Cultural Corridor, Stockholm University 1998.

      >> See also South East Asia (Manger);
      - also Books: Bang, Idrisi;
      - Doctoral dissertations: Bang;
      - and Master's theses: Bang, Lyberg.

    The Gulf

    • Ahmed M. Jiyad, 'The human development paradigm in a globalization environment: The Arab Gulf', in Utvik & Vikør, The Middle East in a Globalized World, 68-116.
    • Anh Nga Longva, 'Kuwaiti Women at a Crossroads: Privileged Development and the Constraints of Ethnic Stratification', in Saad Eddin Ibrahim and Nicolas S. Hopkins (eds.), Arab Society: Class, Gender, Power and Development, Cairo 1997.
    • Anh Nga Longva, 'The apostasy law in the age of universal human rights and citizenship: Some legal and political implications', August 1998: http://www.hf.uib.no/smi/pao/longva.html.
    • Anh Nga Longva, 'Keeping migrant workers in check: the kafala system in the Gulf', Middle East Report, xxix, 2 (211), 1999, 20-2.
    • Anh Nga Longva, 'Apostasy and the liberal predicament', ISIM Newsletter, 8, 2001, 14.
    • Anh Nga Longva, 'The Apostasy Law in Kuwait and the Liberal Predicament', Cultural Dynamics, xiv, 3, 2002, 257-82.
    • Anh Nga Longva, 'Neither autocracy nor democracy but ethnocracy: citizens, expatriates and the socio-political regime in Kuwait', in Paul Dresch, J. Piscatori and M. Al Rasheed (eds.), Connections and Identities: Understandings of the Arab Gulf, Oxford 2003.

      >> See also Books: Longva, Walls;
      - and Master's theses: Fredriksen.

    Israel/Palestine

    • Nils Anfinset, 'The Joint Palestinian - Norwegian Excavation at Tell el-Mafjar', Jericho. <http://www.svf.uib.no/sfu/jericho/index.html, 2003>
    • Nils Anfinset, 'UNESCO partisk?' [Does UNESCO take sides?], Museumsnytt, lii, 1, 2003, 6-8.
    • Kjersti G. Berg, '"Vi skulle bygge et nytt Jerusalem". Intervju med Haakon Lie om Arbeiderpartiet sitt forhold til Israel og Palestina' ['We were to build a new Jerusalem'. Interview with Haakon Lie on the Labour Party's relations with Israel and Palestine], Replikk, 10, 2000.
    • Kirsten Alsaker Kjerland, 'Norge - Israels beste venn?' [Norway: Israel's best friend?], Historisk Tidsskrift, lxxvi, 3, 1997, 390-401.
    • Dag Jørund Lønning, 'Dealing with Good and Evil. Introducing morality as an anthropological concern'. CMI, Working Paper 13, 1996.
    • Dag Jørund Lønning, 'Created by the Enemy: Enemy Images as Nation Builders in Israel', in Ole Høiris and Sefa Martin Yürükel (eds.), Contrasts and Solutions in the Middle East, Aarhus 1997, 141-64.
    • Dag Jørund Lønning, 'Israeli Ways of Conceptualising the Enemy and Implications for Israeli - Palestinian Grass-roots dialogue', in Sabour & Vikør, Ethnic Encounter and Culture Change, 36-48.
    • Inger Marie Okkenhaug, '"And the gem of all future hope is education and girls": Anglikansk misjon og kvinnelig utdanning i Palestina 1888-1948' [: Anglican mission and female education in Palestine], Klækken: Publikasjon fra Nordiske Kvinnedager 1996.
    • Inger Marie Okkenhaug, 'Civilisation, Culture and Education: British Women missionaries in the Holy Land 1880-1940', in Anthony O'Mahoney (ed.), The Christian Communities of Modern Jerusalem: Studies in Religion, History and Politics, Wales 2000.
    • Inger Marie Okkenhaug, 'Palestina-krigen 1948 sett fra to sider' [The Palestine war of 1948 seen from two angles], Bergens Tidende, 26.2.02, 21.
    • Knut S. Vikør, 'Palestina-konflikten' [The Palestine conflict]. Internasjonalt studiehefte, NMU, Oslo 2003, 37-42.

      >> See also Books: Berg, Fredsbygging; Lønning, Bridge; After Oslo;
      - Doctoral dissertations: Kanaaneh, N. Naguib, Okkenhaug,
      - and Master's theses: Abu Mustafa, Berg, J. Bøe, Dørnes, Fimreite, Gaarde, Kårtveit, Jensen, Lønning, Lundblad, Ivarsen, Selland, Skaar, Smith, Solheim, Wang.

    Jordan

    Lebanon

    • Nils Anfinset, 'A Passion for Cultural Difference: Ethnicity and Archaeology in the southern Levant', Norwegian Archaeological Review, xxxvi, 1, 2003.

      >> See also Master's theses: Dia, Innvik, Visser.

    Syria

    Iraq

    Kurdistan

    • Haci Akman, 'Et folk og en legende' [A People and a Legend].
    • Haci Akman, 'Kurdisk identitet [Kurdish identity].
    • Haci Akman, 'Landflyktighet' [Exile].

      >> See also Master's theses: Grønner.

    Turkey

    • Alf Grannes, 'En "tyrkisk verden" fra Balkan til Kina' [A 'Turkish world' from the Balkans to China], in Daniel Heradstveit, Tyrkia i det storpolitiske brennpunkt, NUPI-rapport 221, 1997-09, 31 pp.
    • Ståle Knudsen, 'Fisheries along the eastern Black Sea coast of Turkey: Informal resource management in small-scale fishing in the shadow of a dominant capitalist fishery', Human Organization, liv, 4, 1995.
    • Ståle Knudsen, 'How do the coastal populations of Turkey and Ukraine respond to marine ecological crisis?', Saving the Black Sea. Official newsletter of the Black Sea Environmental Programme, 6, 1998, 4-5.
    • Ståle Knudsen, 'Karadeniz Balikcilik Sektorunde Turk Su Urunleri Kooperatifleri Nasil Bir Rol Oynayabilir?' Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences, xv, 3-4, 2000 (1998), 315-29.
    • Ståle Knudsen, 'What role for the Turkish Fishery co-operatives? Organisational preconditions for a new management regime in the Black Sea', in M.S. Celikkale, E. Duzgunes, I. Okumus and C. Mutlu (eds.), FISHECO '98: Proceedings of the First International Symposium on Fisheries and Ecology, Trabzon 1999, 100-7.
    • Ståle Knudsen, 'Moderate AKP ved makten' [The moderate AKP in power], Bergens Tidende, 19.11.02, 25.
    • Ståle Knudsen, 'Black Sea Fishery Management; from Ignorance to Politics', Journal of Southeast European and Black Sea Studies, iii, 1, 2003.
    • Camilla Trud Nereid, 'Opposisjon i Tyrkia. Said Nursi og Nurcu-bevegelsen' [Opposition in Turkey. Said Nursi and the Nurcu movement], Historie, v, 1, 1995, 42-7.
    • Camilla Nereid, 'De Turcia: Tyrkerne sett fra 1600-tallets Jølster' [The Turks viewed from a 17th century West Norwegian village], Historie, vi, 4, 1996, 4-11.
    • Mete Pamir, 'Determinants of late development: a study of Turkey's late industrialization attempt until 1946'. Bergen: Chr. Michelsens institutt, Report nr. 8 1993.
    • Mete Pamir, 'Kommentar: Visjoner for Tyrkia, osmansk ideal mot europeisk nasjonalstat' [A Comment: Visions for Turkey, Ottoman ideal vs. European national state]. Internasjonal politikk, lii, 2, 1994.
    • Marit Stålesen, 'Fra god muslim til god tyrker. Etableringen av nasjonal historieskriving i Tyrkia' [From Good Muslim to Good Turk. The establishment of a national historiography in Turkey], Historie, v, 3, 1995, 10-20.
    • Marit Stålesen, 'Å vandre på den lysende historievei. Nasjonalisert historieskriving i Tyrkia' [Walking on the illuminated road of history: Nationalized history writing in Turkey], in Øyvind Bjørnson, Egil Nysæter and Arve Kjell Uthaug (eds.), Til debatt:Innlegg ved Norske historiedagar 1996, Bergen: Dept of History 1998, 215-23.
    • Sevil Sümer, 'Incongruent Modernities: A Comparative Study of Higher Educated Women from Urban Turkey and Norway', Acta Sociologica: Journal of the Scandinavian Sociological Association, xli, 2, 1998, 115-129.
    • Sevil Sümer, 'Modern women, clashing demands, different solutions: A comparative look at Turkey and Norway' [in Turkish], in A. Ilyasoglu & N. Akgökce (eds.), Yerli bir Feminizme Dogru [Towards a Local Feminism], Istanbul 2001, 107-26.
    • Vemund Aarbakke, 'Verden sett fra Tyrkia: et lite bidrag til forståelsen av en for oss fremmed kultur' [The world seen from Turkey: a contribution to the understanding of a culture different from ours], in Ole-Jacob Abraham and Ørjan Leren (red.), Samveldet av uavhengige stater: en historisk, politisk og kulturell oversikt, Bergen 1999, 92-111.

      >> See also Books: Grannes, Turco-Bulgarica; Nereid, Said Nursi;
      - Doctoral dissertations: S. Knudsen, Sümer,
      - and Master's theses: Cetin, Fosshagen, Grønner, Kvist, Markussen, Nalis, T.Normann, Pamir, Nereid, Stålesen, Sümer.

    Balkans

    • Tone Bringa, 'The Bosnian Muslims', Human Relations Area Files, New Haven 1996.
    • Tone Bringa, 'Den bosnisk-kroatiske føderasjonen: Dayton-avtalens akilleshæl' [The Bosnian-Croatian Federation: The Achilles Heel of the Dayton Agreement], Nordisk Øst-forum, 2, 1996, 69-78.
    • Kjetil Fosshagen, 'Kypros: EUs hodepine' [Cyprus: EU's headache], Bergens Tidende, 12.12.02, 29
    • Vemund Aarbakke, 'Historiske og ideologiske faktorer i striden rundt Makedonia' [Historical and ideological factors in the struggle over Macedonia], Nordisk Øst-forum, 2, 1996, 57-68.
    • Vemund Aarbakke, 'Balkan: etniske konflikter og deres historiske bakgrunn' [The Balkans: Ethnic conflicts and their historical background], Historie, 4, 1999, 34-48.
    • Vemund Aarbakke, 'Sosiale utskudd og fet musikk. Gresk populærmusikk mellom øst og vest' [Social outcasts and fat music. Greek popular music between East and West]. Historie, 1, 2002, 12-19.

      >> See also Books: Bringa, Being Muslim; Grannes, Turco-Bulgarica;
      - Doctoral dissertations: Aarbakke,
      - and Master's theses: Fidjestøl, Fosshagen.

    Caucasus

    • Alf Grannes, 'Etnisk mosaikk i Kaukasia', P2-akademiet, Trondheim[?] 1994, 148-58.
    • Alf Grannes, Opyt bibliografii sovetskj literatury na krymsko-tatarskom jazyke s pervykh izdanij v ssylke do konca sovteskogo perioda (1957-1991), Bergen: Bergenskij universitet 1994.
    • Alf Grannes, '?Persons of Caucasian nationality? ? Russian negative stereotypes', in Ole Høiris and Sefa Martin Yurukel (eds.), Contrasts and Solutions in the Caucasus, Århus 1998, 18-33.
    • Kari Eken Strømmen, 'Jordskjelv og etnisk stabilitet' [Earthquakes and ethnic stability. On Azeris in Iran], Bergens Tidende, 21.3.97.
    • Kari Eken Strømmen, 'Problemet i den sorte hagen' [The problem in the black garden], Bergens Tidende, 2.5.98.

      >> See also Turkey (Grannes);
      - and Master's theses: Mannes, Strømmen, Toje.

    Central Asia

    • Alf Grannes, 'Mosaikk og konflikt i post-sovjetisk Sentral-Asia: Historisk, etnisk, språklig, religiøs og annen bakgrunn for dagens konfliktbilde' [Mosaics and conflicts in post-Soviet Central-Asia: Historical, ethnic, linguistic, religious and other backgrounds for today's conflicts]. Norsk Utenrikspolitisk institutt, 1993.
    • Alf Grannes, 'Da "k a s a k h e r e n Smirnov vant 5-mila": Om noen betegnelser på folkeslag og borgere i tidligere sovjetrepublikker (med hovedvekt på Kaukasia og Sentral-Asia)' [When the "Kazakh" Smirnov won the 50-km ski race: On some names for peoples and citizens of the former Soviet republics (particularly Caucasia and Central Asia)], Bergen: Dept. of Russian 1997, 9 pp.
    • Reidar Grønhaug, 'Menneskehetens stjernetimer: migrasjon og kognitiv struktur i kulturhistorien' [The starry nights of humanity: migration and cognitive structure], Norsk Antropologisk Tidsskrift, 4, 1998.
    • Arne Haugen, 'Islam i Turkmenistan', Historie, v, 4, 1995, 28-33.
    • Arne Haugen, 'Turkmenarane kastar ut russisk' [The Turkmens throw out the Russians], Dag og Tid, 33, 1995.
    • Arne Haugen, 'Stamme, klan og slektskap i Sentral-asia' [Tribe, clan and kinship in Central Asia], Nordisk Øst-forum, xi, 5, 1997, 59-68.
    • Arne Haugen, 'Fra nomader til nasjoner: Sentral-Asia i sovjetperioden' [From nomads to nations: Central Asia in the Soviet period], in Ole-Jacob Abraham and Ørjan Leren (red.), Samveldet av uavhengige stater: en historisk, politisk og kulturell oversikt, Bergen 1999, 65-74.
    • Arne Haugen, 'Det sovjetiske sion' [The Soviet Zion], Bergens Tidende, 21.2.2001, 29
    • Arne Haugen, 'Krysspress i Sentral-Asia' [Cross-pressure in Central Asia], Bergens Tidende, 11.10.2001, 31
    • Tor Aase, ''Western and Central Asian mountains' & 'Converting Forests into weapons in the Western Himalayas', in Martin Price (ed.), Global Change in the Mountains, London 1999, 145-9.

      >> See also Turkey (Grannes);
      - also Books: Grannes, Etnisk;
      - Doctoral dissertations: Haugen
      - and Master's theses: Haugen, Ragnhild Lunde, van Veen, Vestbø.

    Iran

    • Zahra Kamalkhani, 'Women's everyday religious discourse in Iran', in H. Afshar (ed.), Women in Middle East, London: Macmillan 1993, 102-13.
    • Zahra Kamalkhani, 'Islamic Identity and the Female "Fundamentalist" Movement; Toward a new approach to Gender, State and Islamism', Conf. Report CIRA: Odio Wesleyan Univ., April 1994, 2.
    • Zahra Kamalkhani, 'Construction of Islamic Knowledge and the female "fundamentalist" movement in Iran'. Working paper, CMI, Sept., 1994.
    • Zahra Kamalkhani, 'The power of desire: A "pious" gift in vow-making among Muslim Iranian women'. Working paper, 1994, pp. 29.
    • Zahra Kamalkhani, 'Muslim Identity and Islam in the Adaptation of Iranian in Norway'. Working paper, 1994.
    • Zahra Kamalkhani, 'Family and Household Economic Management in the Context of Change: A Case Study in Shiraz', International Journal of Comparatives Family and Marriage, ii, 2, 1994.
    • Zahra Kamalkhani, 'Islamisk Kvindebevægelse, Interview with M.L Sodemann', Exile, 4, 1994,
    • Zahra Kamalkhani, 'Iranian Migration to Norway: A Reflection of History, State and Culture' Migration: A European Journal of International Migration and Ethnic Relations, iii/iv, 23-24, 1994, 105-24.
    • Zahra Kamalkhani, 'Religious education in the Islamic Republic and women as Fundamentalists', Journal of Iranian Studies, 1, 1996, 27-31.
    • Zahra Kamalkhani, 'Reconstruction of Islamic knowledge and knowing: A case of Islamic practices among women in Iran', in Ask and Tjomsland (eds.), Women and Islamisation.
    • Knut S. Vikør, 'Boikott av Iran?' [Boycott of Iran?], Dag og Tid, 21.10.93.

      >> See also Caucasus (Strømmen); Norway (Hushagen);
      - also Books: Kamalkhani, Women's Islam;
      - Doctoral dissertations: Kamalkhani;
      - and Master's theses: Alyasan, M. Bøe, Maghsoudi, Tengesdal, Thomassen, Vada.

    Afghanistan

    • Karin Ask, 'Gender differentiated assistance during Islamisation: An analysis of the case of Afghanistan', August 1998: http://www.hf.uib.no/smi/pao/ask.html.
    • Reidar Grønhaug, 'Den afghanske politiske sivilisasjon. Artikkel etter foredrag på Landskonferansen, Afghanistankomiteen i Norge, oktober 1995' [The Afghan Political Situation. Pamphlet based on a speech at the conference of the Afghanistan Committee of Norway, October 1995]. Oslo: Afghanistankomitéen i Norge 1996, 12 pp.
    • Reidar Grønhaug, 'Hvor sterkt kan Taliban stå - alene?' [How strong can the Taliban stand - alone?] Bergens Tidende, 23.9.01, 21.

    Pakistan

    • Karin Ask, 'Når familien tar lova i eigne hender' [When the family takes the law into their own hands], Bergens Tidende, 15.3.01
    • Are Knudsen, 'State intervention and community protest: Nature conservation in Hunza, Northern Pakistan', in Ole Bruun and Arne Kalland (eds.), Asian Perceptions of Nature: A Critical Approach, London 1995.
    • Are Knudsen, 'Deforestation and entrepreneurship in the North West Frontier Province, Pakistan', Bergen: CMI Working Paper 1996.
    • Are Knudsen, 'National parks and nature conservation in Northern Pakistan Province, Pakistan', Bergen: CMI (Working Paper) 1996.
    • Are Knudsen, 'Communal land use cosmology in an agro-pastoral community in Hunza, North Pakistan', in N.J.R. Allan (ed.), Karakorum Conquered; North Pakistan in Transition, New York 1997.
    • Are Knudsen, 'National parks and nature conservation in Northern Pakistan', in Nature Conservation and Human Rights in Asia, London 1997.
    • Are Knudsen, and Halvorsen, Kate, 'Income-generating programmes in Pakistan and Malawi: A comparative review', Journal of Refugee Studies, x, 4, 1997.
    • Are Knudsen, 'Deforestation and entrepreneurship in the North West Frontier Province, Pakistan', in Stig Toft Madsen (ed.), State, Society and the Environment in South Asia, London 1999, 200-35.
    • Are Knudsen, 'Land dispute and death enmity in a Kohistani mountain village, Pakistan', Bergen: CMI Working Paper Series 9, 1999, 37 pp.
    • Tor Aase, 'Migrasjonens lokale dialektikk i Pakistan' [The local dialectics of migration in Pakistan], in Jan Hasselberg (ed.), Utviklingsgeografi, Oslo 1998, 82-100.
    • Tor H. Aase, 'The theological construction of conflict: Gilgit, Northern Pakistan', Muslim Diversity, 58-79.
    • Tor Aase, 'Politics of natural resource management in the Sai valley. District Gilgit', in Irmtraud Stellrecht (ed.), Dynamics of Change, Köln 1999, 109-23.

      >> See also Doctoral dissertations: A. Knudsen,
      - and Master's theses: Irgan.

    India, South Asia

    • Tor Aase, 'The Prototypical Blood Feud. Tangir in the Hindu Kush Mountains', in T.H. Aase (ed): Tournaments of Power. Honor and Revenge in the Contemporary World, Aldershot 2002. >> See also Yemen (Manger);
      - also Doctoral dissertations: Assaduzzaman, Bleie;
      - and Master's theses: Gjelsvik, Rødseth.

    Indonesia, South-East Asia

    • Ahmed Ibrahim Abu Shouk, 'Shaykh and Sayyid Discord: The Life Career of Ahmad Muhammad Surkitti and his Contribution to the Modernist Muslim Movement in Indonesia 1911-1942', in Huub de Jonge and Nico Kaptein (eds.), The Arabs in Southeast Asia, 1999.
    • Eldar Bråten, 'Mennesket i den etnografiske beskrivelse: Noen grunnlagsproblemer [Man in the ethnographic description. Some theoretical considerations]', Norsk Antropologisk Tidsskrift, iv, 1, 1993, 28-42.
    • Eldar Bråten, 'To colour, not oppose: spreading Islam in rural Java', Muslim Diversity, 150-72.
    • Eldar Bråten, 'Hvordan forholde seg til "det nye?" Møte mellom gamle normer og ny virkelighet på Java, Indonesia' [How to relate to 'the new'? The encounter between old norms and new reality on Java], Norm og praksis i Middelaldersamfunnet. Kulturtekster, 14, 1999, 206-30.
    • Leif Manger, 'Hadramis in Singapore: making Muslim space in a global city', Bulletin of the Royal Institute for Inter-faith Studies, iii, 2, 2001.

      >> See also Sudan (O'Fahey & Abu Salim);
      - also Books: Abu Shouk, Islah;
      - Doctoral dissertations: Bråten, Sedgwick,
      - and Master's theses: Gjelsvik, Holm, Lund, Lund-Olsen.

    Middle Easternerns in the West, Norway

    • Haci Akman, Bibliografisk oversikt over migrasjonsstudier ved Universitetet i Bergen [Bibliographic survey of migration studies at the U. of B.], Bergen: Sefos 1995.
    • Haci Akman, 'Norwegian Atlas of Refugees' - a part of International Refugee Atlas,Toronto 1996.
    • Haci Akman, 'Andre generajon - uegnet begrep?' [2nd generation: an inadequate concept?] Psyko-sosialnytt, 1996.
    • Haci Akman, 'Innvandrere i byrom-Bergen' [Immigrants in the city-space of Bergen], Norsk form, 1996.
    • Haci Akman, 'Flyktningenes behov' [The needs of refugees], Lauv, 2-3, 1997.
    • Haci Akman, 'Innvandrerorganisasjoner som kulturvernere og kulturformidlere' [Immigrant organizations as protectors and transmitters of culture], Innvandrerråd, 2, 1997.
    • Haci Akman, Etnisk atlas: kulturell diaspora i Bergens byrom, [Ethnical Atlas: cultural diaspora in the city space of Bergen], Bergen 2001.
    • Munzoul Abdalla Assal and Sindre Bangstad, 'Unni Wikan og multikulturalismens utfordringer' [Unni Wikan and the challenges of multi-culturalism], Samtiden, ii, 2003, 40-51.
    • Seyed Fazel Alyasan, 'Religious identity and exile: some theses', in Gerry Lavery and Bertil Nelhans (eds.) Forskingsrapport 123, Gothenburg: Göteborg University 1998.
    • Anne K. Bang and R.S. O'Fahey, 'En profet forut for sin tid: Noble Drew Ali (1866-1929)' [A prophet ahead of time], Historie, 4, 1999, 54-7.
    • Reidar Grønhaug, 'Rettsstaten, det flerkulturelle og antropologien' [The Rechtsstaat, the multicultural and anthropology], Norsk Antropologisk Tidsskrift, 3/4, 1997, 267-77.
    • Reidar Grønhaug, 'Fremmedarbeiderne i Norge' [Guest workers in Norway], in Jan-Erik Ebbestad Hansen (red.), Norsk tro og tanke 1940-2000, Oslo 2001, 905-15.
    • Veena Gill, 'Politisk deltakelse blant innvandrerkvinner i Norge: en forstudie' [Political participation among immigrant women in Norway&: a preliminary study], Pamphlet, Bergen: Senter for samfunnsforskning, UiB 1994.
    • Anne Hushagen, 'Iranske kvinner i Bergen: Identitetskonstruksjon i eksil' [Iranian women in Bergen. Identity construction in exile], Samviten, 2, mars, 1996.
    • Kirsten Alsaker Kjerland, 'Kampen for å bli hørt og brukt. Forholdet mellom antropologien og norsk utviklingshjelp fram til 1987' [The struggle to be heard and used: The relation between Anthropology and Norwegian development aid before 1987], Historisk tidsskrift [Oslo], lxxviii, 3, 1999, 322-46.
    • Richard Natvig, 'Les musulmans en Norvège', in Mohammed Arkoun, Remy Leveau et Bassem El-Jisr, L'Islam et les musulmans dans le monde. Tome I: L'Europe occidentale 1993, 421-47.
    • Richard Natvig, Chapter in Herbert Schulze (ed.), Islam in Schools of Western Europe. An Example of Intercultural Education and Preparation for Interreligious Understanding, Köln 1994.
    • Richard Natvig, 'Islam på bergensk. Framveksten av muslimske organisasjonar i Bergen' [Bergenese Islam. The growth of Muslim organizations in Bergen], in Lisbeth Mikaelsson (ed.), Religionsbyen Bergen, Bergen 2000, 175-97.
    • Richard Natvig, 'En forutsetning for integrering' [A precondition for integration], UiB Magasinet, 6, 2002, 22-3
    • Terje Tvedt, 'Oppfatninger av "Den andre" i et historisk og komparativt perspektiv' [The concept of the 'other', in an historical and comparative perspective], in Tor Halfdan Aase (ed.), Metodologiske tilnærminger til studiet av fordommer og diskriminering, Oslo 1997.
    • Terje Tvedt, 'Perspektiver på norsk utviklingshjelps historie' [Perspectives on the history of Norwegian development aid], Historisk Tidsskrift [Oslo], lxxviii, 1, 1999, 75-96.

      >> See also East Africa (Bang), Egypt (Okkenhaug), Iran (Kamalkhani), Sudan (Abu Shouk), Turkey (Sümer),
      - also Books: Bang & Kjerland, Nordmenn; Tvedt, Angels of mercy;
      - Doctoral dissertations: Assal, Sedgwick, Sümer, Tvedt,
      - and Master's theses: Alyasan, Bakka, Berg, Berner, R.Endresen, Gjelsvik, C. Hansen, Hushagen, Irgan, Ivarsen, Jacobsen, Krossøy, Kvist, Lien, Næss, Skaar, Sümer, Søvik, Uribe, Vada, Aas. Gjelsvik, Lien,

    Research aids etc.

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