Kazuo MORIMOTO 森本　一夫

Islamicist and historian of the Middle East
(Institute for Advanced Studies on Asia, University of Tokyo)

(Portrait by Taro Morimoto)

News

Morimoto Kazuo (ed.), Sayyids and Sharifs in Muslim Societies: The Living Links to the Prophet (http://www.taylorandfrancis.com/books/details/9780415519175/) is now out from Routledge (8 May 2012). I hope the volume will arouse much interest in the subject among the scholars and students in related fields.

Research interests:

Comparative study on sayyids/sharifs in different Muslim societies; historiographical study of the genealogical literature on sayyids/sharifs; social history of Iran after Islam; history of Shi`ism.

Appointments:

10/2004-: Associate Professor, Institute for Advanced Studies on Asia, the University of Tokyo.

4/2001-9/2004: Associate Professor, Department of Asian History, Faculty of Letters, Hokkaido University.

4/1996-3/2001: Research Associate, Institute of Oriental Culture (currently Institute for Advanced Studies on Asia), the University of Tokyo.

Education:

9/1996-9/1998: Doctor's course, Department of History, Faculty of Literature and Human Sciences, the University of Tehran.

4/1995-3/1996: Doctor's course, Faculty of Letters, the University of Tokyo.

4/1992-3/1995: Master's course, Faculty of Letters, the University of Tokyo.

4/1988-3/1992: Faculty of Letters, the University of Tokyo.

Degrees:

D. Litt. (PhD equivalent): 9/2004 (Univ. of Tokyo): "Sayyids, Genealogists, Naqibs: A Study on the Genealogical Literature of Sayyids/Sharifs from Late 10th through Early 15th Century." (in Japanese)

M.A.: 3/1995 (Univ. of Tokyo): "Genealogical Control of the Talibid Sayyids." (in Japanese)

B.A.: 3/1992 (Univ. of Tokyo): "An Iranian Local Society and Its Notable Families as Seen in Tarikh-i Bayhaq." (in Japanese)

Publications:



List of Publications (PDF, 368 KB)

Read some Persian articles

Editorial Responsibilities:
Member of the Editorial Board, the series "Persian and Shi`ite Studies"(Routledge)
Member of the Editorial Board, Society for Near Eastern Studies in Japan (publishing Orient in European languages and Oriento [ = Bulletin of the Society for Near Eastern Studies in Japan] in Japanese]
Executive Editor, International Journal of Asian Studies (Cambridge University Press), 2006-2011.

Award:
First Farabi International Award ("qabel-e taqdir"), Islamic Republic of Iran, 1/2008.

Addresses:
Kazuo Morimoto
Institute for Advaced Studies on Asia, University of Tokyo
7-3-1 Hongo, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo 113-0033 Japan

morikazu<at>ioc.u-tokyo.ac.jp

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