• Er Libya eit land? 

      Vikør, Knut S. (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2018)
      Kva skal til for at eit territorium kan kallas for eit «land»? Libya er ein «stat», men har ei kort historie som «nasjon». Kan historia til den austlige provinsen Cyrenaica fortelle oss noe om territoriell identitet?
    • Ibadism and Law in Historical Contexts 

      Vikør, Knut S. (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2020)
      Not Sunnis and not Shi’is, the Ibāḍī Muslims of Oman and some areas of North Africa form a “third branch” of Islam, with their own version of the Sharīʿa law. The development of this law displays many interconnections with ...
    • Islamic Law: The Sources 

      Vikør, Knut S. (Chapter; Peer reviewed, 2019)
      The historiography of the early development of Islamic law, the Sharia, is highly contentious both among Muslims and secular historians. In economic field, this takes the form of the growth of an ‘Islamic banking system’, ...