Faculty member at Mardin Artuklu University Kurdish Language and Literature department. 

Ph.D, Mardin Artuklu University Kurdish Language and Culture Department

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Ph.D, Mardin Artuklu University Kurdish Language and Culture Department

Prof. Dr., Mardin Artuklu University, Kurdish Language and Literature Department

CV Martin van Bruinessen
Martin van Bruinessen is Professor Emeritus of Comparative Studies of Modern Muslim Societies at Utrecht University. He is an anthropologist with a strong interest in politics, history and philology, and much of his work straddles the boundaries between these disciplines. He has conducted extensive fieldwork in Kurdistan (Turkey, Iran, Iraq, Syria) as well as Indonesia and Southeast Asia generally and has taught on subjects ranging from Ottoman history and sociology of religion to theories of nationalism. He carried out his first field research among the Kurds during two years in the mid-1970s when access was relatively easy and has frequently revisited the region during the following decades and has published extensively on various aspects of Kurdish society, culture and history. His work was translated into Turkish, Persian, Arabic and Kurdish and is easily available in the countries concerned. The vicissitudes of the academic job market brought him to Indonesia in the 1980s, where he studied various aspects of Islam and society. His involvement with Indonesia began with fieldwork in a poor urban kampung in Bandung (1983-84) and included stints as an advisor on research methods at the Indonesian Institute of Sciences (LIPI, 1986-90) and as a senior lecturer at the State Institute of Islamic Studies (IAIN) Sunan Kalijaga in Yogyakarta (1991- 94). After his return to the Netherlands, van Bruinessen took part in founding the International Institute for the Study of Islam in the Modern World (ISIM) in 1998 and was one of its professors during 1999 through 2008. Since his formal retirement in 2011, he held visiting professorships in Indonesia and Singapore as well as Turkey.
His publications include Agha, Shaikh and State: The Social and Political Structures of Kurdistan (London, 1992); Evliya Çelebi in Diyarbekir (with H. Boeschoten, Leiden, 1988), Tarekat Naqsyabandiyah di Indonesia (Bandung, 1992), NU: Tradisi, Relasi-relasi Kuasa, Pencarian Wacana Baru (Yogyakarta, 1994), Mullas, Sufis and heretics: the role of religion in Kurdish society (Istanbul, 2000), Kurdish ethno-nationalism versus nation-building states (Istanbul, 2000), the edited volumes Islam und Politik in der Türkei (with J. Blaschke, Berlin, 1985), Islam des Kurdes (with Joyce Blau, Paris, 1998), Sufism and the ‘Modern’ in Islam (with Julia D. Howell, London, 2007), The Madrasa in Asia: Political Activism and Transnational Linkages (with Farish A. Noor and Yoginder Sikand, Amsterdam, 2008), Islam and Modernity: Key Issues and Debates (with M. Khalid Masud and Armando Salvatore, Edinburgh, 2009), Producing Islamic Knowledge: Transmission and Dissemination in Western Europe (with Stefano Allievi, Oxon, 2011), Contemporary Developments in Indonesian Islam: Understanding the ‘Conservative Turn’ (Singapore, 2013), and Gestures: The Study of Religion as Practice (with Michiel Leezenberg and Anne-Marie Korte, New York, 2022).
Most of his numerous published articles can be accessed at his academia.edu page, https://universiteitutrecht.academia.edu/MartinvanBruinessen.
Van Bruinessen can be contacted at: m.vanbruinessen@uu.nl.

 
Employment history
2011-present: professor emeritus, Department of Philosophy and Religious Studies, Utrecht University
1998-2011: professor of Comparative Studies of Contemporary Muslim Societies, with special reference to Kurdish Studies, Utrecht University
1999-2009: chair of comparative studies of contemporary Muslim societies, International Institute for the Study of Islam in the Modern World (ISIM)
1996-1997: guest professor of Kurdish Studies, Department of Anthropology, Free University, Berlin
1994-1998: lecturer Turkish and Kurdish studies, Department of Oriental Languages and Cultures, Utrecht University
1991-1994: senior lecturer religious studies and research methods, State Institute of Islamic Studies (IAIN) Sunan Kalijaga, Yogyakarta, Indonesia
1986-1990: consultant for research methods, Indonesian Institute of Sciences (LIPI), Jakarta
1982-1986: postdoctoral research fellow, Royal Institute of Anthropology and Linguistics (KITLV), Leiden
1978-1982: various short-term appointments, including teaching Turkish at Utrecht University, participation in rural development project in Afghanistan, journalistic reporting on the Iranian revolution.
1974-1977: PhD fellowship, Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research
1971-1973: teacher of mathematics and physics
Visiting academic positions
2018-2019 (12 months) visiting research professor, Middle East Institute, National University Singapore
2016-2017 (7 months) senior visiting fellow, Rajaratnam School of International and Strategic Studies, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
2015-2016 (1 semester) visiting professor, Istanbul Bilgi University, Istanbul.
2014 (1 summer course) visiting professor, Center for Religious & Cross-Cultural Studies (CRCS) Universitas Gadjah Mada, Yogyakarta.
2014 (1 semester) visiting professor, Istanbul Bilgi Univesity, Istanbul.
2012-2013 (1 year) senior visiting fellow, ARI-NUS, Singapore
2011-2012 (1 semester) visiting professor, Institute for the Study of Muslim Civilisations, Aga Khan University, London.
2009 (3 months) visiting fellow, RSIS-NTU, Singapore.
2001 (3 months) visiting fellow, École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales (EHESS), Paris.
1997-2000 (part-time) visiting professor, Institut National des Langues et Civilisations Orientales in Paris
Education
Studied two disciplines:
1964-71: mathematics and physics, Utrecht University
1967: “candidaats” degree (equivalent to B.Sc.) in mathematics, physics and astronomy (cum laude)
1971: “doctoraal” degree (equivalent to M.Sc.) in theoretical physics and mathematics (cum laude)
1966-71: cultural anthropology, Utrecht University
1970: “candidaats” degree in anthropology Utrecht University
1978: Ph.D. degree, cultural anthropology, Utrecht University

Prof. Dr.

Michiel Leezenberg, 1995 yılında Amsterdam Üniversitesi'nden doktorasını aldı. Şu anda Amsterdam Üniversitesi'nin felsefe ve antik çalışmalar bölümlerinde ders veriyor. Kürt tarihi, toplumu ve kültürü ve İslam dünyasının ve Osmanlı imparatorluğunun entelektüel tarihi üzerine çok sayıda yayın yaptı. INALCO/Sorbonne (Paris) ve Jagiellonian Üniversitesi'nin (Krakow) İran Çalışmaları bölümlerinde ve Leiden ve Gent Üniversitelerinin felsefe bölümlerinde misafir profesörlük yaptı.