Bruinessen, Martin van

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Name (Latin)
Bruinessen, Martin van
Name (Arabic)
بروينسن، مارتن فان، 1946-
Other forms of name
Van Bruinessen, Martin
Date of birth
1946
Field of activity
Islam
Islamic civilization
Kurdistan--Civilization
Associate group
Rijksuniversiteit te Utrecht
Occupation
College teachers
Anthropologists
Ethnologists
Social anthropologist
Associated Language
eng dut
Gender
male
MARC
MARC
Other Identifiers
VIAF: 111370099
Wikidata: Q344917
Library of congress: n 83000873
Sources of Information
  • Turkije in crisis, c1982:t.p. (Martin van Bruinessen)
  • His The Agha, shaikh, and khan, 1991:CIP t.p. (Martin Van Bruinessen) galley (Ph.D., Univ. of Utrecht, 1978) pub. info. (social anthropologist, fellow of Kurdish Institute, Paris)
  • His Tarekat Naqsyabandiyah di Indonesia, 1992:t.p. (Martin van Bruinessen) p. 5 (b. 1946)
Wikipedia description:

Martin van Bruinessen is a Dutch anthropologist and author, who has published a number of publications on the Kurdish, Indonesian, Turkish, Persian cultures, and also on aspects of Islam as a whole. He taught the sociology of religion at the State Institute of Islamic Studies of Yogyakarta, Indonesia and has been teaching Kurdish and Turkish studies at Utrecht University, the Netherlands since 1994 as associate professor. He shifted his emphasis in 1998 to a broader scope, Islamic Studies, after becoming Professor of the Comparative Study of Contemporary Muslim Societies at Utrecht University. He also wrote and researched some issues of the early stages of Islam in Java.

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