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Michael Kemper

... is professor and chair of Eastern European Studies, one of the three chair groups of European Studies at UvA. His major field of expertise is Islam in Russia, Central Asia, and the Caucasus, as well as the history of Oriental Studies in Europe. In his research he combines historical and philological interests with social network studies; in addition, he takes a special delight in comparative studies.

Kemper studied Slavic as well as Islamic and Oriental Studies at Bochum University, Germany. At Bochum University Kemper also directed, in close collaboration with Prof. Stefan Reichmuth, a Junior Research Group on “Islamic Networks of Education (18th-20th Centuries)”, which was generously supported by the Volkswagen Foundation. Between 1998 and 2007, this group produced seven dissertations on Islamic movements of education inIndia, Syria, Bosnia,and Turkey/the OttomanEmpire. Before coming to UvA he worked as assistant professor for Central Eurasian History at St. Lawrence University in Canton, NY.

In his dissertation (1997) Kemper investigated the history of Islamic theology, law, Sufism, and local historiography in the Volga-Urals region of nineteenth-century Russia. Kemper’s second monograph (habilitation, 2004) explored the nineteenth-century jihad against Russian colonialism in the Caucasus. These works are mainly based on the rich Arabic and Turkic manuscript collections in the Russian Federation and Turkey, as well as on Russian historiography. Next to his monographs, Kemper also co-edited a number of volumes on aspects of Muslim Culture in Russia and the Soviet Union. 

Together with Dr. Stephane A. Dudoignon (EHESS, Paris), Kemper now conducts a new research project at UvA, entitled "The Legacy of Soviet Oriental Studies: Discourses, Networks, Institutions" (funded by NWO, 2009-2013). The project comprises PhD studies on the central institutions of Orientology in Moscow and Leningrad (Hanna E. Jansen), Oriental Studies and nationalism in Azerbaijan (Sara H. Crombach), and Kazakh Oriental Studies (Alfrid K. Bustanov). 

Kemper currently teaches MA courses on Europe's Orient (fall semester) and Political Islam in Eastern Europe and Central Asia (spring), as well as a BA work group on Central Asia and the Caucasus (Herschikking, fall).

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Publications (topic-wise)

1. ON SOVIET ORIENTAL STUDIES AND ISLAM IN THE USSR :

The Heritage of Soviet Oriental Studies, ed. by Michael Kemper and Stephan Conermann ( London and New York : Routledge, 2011), 336 pp.

"Introduction: Integration Soviet Oriental Studies", in The Heritage of Soviet Oriental Studies, ed. by Michael Kemper and Stephan Conermann ( London and New York : Routledge, 2011), 1-26.

Hanna E. Jansen, Michael Kemper, "Hijacking Islam: The Search for a New Soviet Interpretation of Political Islam in 1980", in The Heritage of Soviet Oriental Studies, ed. by Michael Kemper and Stephan Conermann ( London and New York : Routledge, 2011), 124-144,

"Red Orientalism: Mikhail Pavlovich and Marxist Oriental Studies in Early Soviet Russia", Die Welt des Islams vol. 50: 3-4 (2010), 435-476.

Islamic Education in the Soviet Union and Its Successor States, ed. by Michael Kemper, Raoul Motika, Stefan Reichmuth, London and New York: Routledge, 2009, 367 pp.

„The Soviet Discourse on the Origin and Class Character of Islam, 1923-1933“, Die Welt des Islams 49:1 (2009), 1-48.

"Ljucian Klimovič, der ideologische Bluthund der sowjetischen Islamkunde und Zentralasienliteratur", Schweizer Asienstudien, LXIII(2009), 93-133.

Studying Islam in the Soviet Union . Inaugural Lecture delivered on the appointment to the chair of Eastern European Studies at the University of Amsterdam on Thursday 11 December 2008 ( Amsterdam : Vossiuspers UvA, 2009), 26 pp.

„How to Take the Muslim Peripheries Seriously in the Writing of Imperial History?“ , in: Ab Imperio: Studies of New Imperial History and Nationalism in the Post-Soviet Space vol. 4, 2008, 472-482.

2. ON THE MUSLIM HISTORY OF TATARSTAN:

Sufii i uchenye v Tatarstane i Bashkortostane, 1789-1889: Islamskii diskurs pod russkim gospodstvom, transl. by Iskander Gilyazov, Kazan ’: Idel’-Press, 2008, 655 pp.

Tatarskii Shamail’: Slovo i obraz. Katalog vystavki, ed. I.L. Alekseev, V.O. Bobrovnikov, P.V. Basharin, I.F. Gimadeev, P.I. Shamsutov, with E.S. Ermakova, I.V. Zaitsev and M. Kemper (Moscow: Mardzhani, 2009).

"Ismails Reisebuch als Genremischung", in: Istochniki i issledovaniia po istorii tatarskogo naroda: Materialy k uchebnym kursam. V chest’ iubileia akademika AN RT M.A. Usmanova , ed. by Diliara Usmanova and Iskander Giliazov, Kazan' 2006, 318-330.

" Istoriia sufizma v Povolzh’e i Priural’e " , Mir Islama 3-4 (2005), 5-10.

Michael Kemper, Diliara Usmanova, "Vaisovskoe dvizhenie v zerkale sobstvennykh proshchenii i poem" ["The Vaisov Movement in Its Own Poetry and Petitions"],in: Gasyrlar awazy/Ekho vekov [Kazan´, Tatarstan, RF], 3-4 (December 2001), pp. 83-128 (in Russian).

"Chatishmadan uzlashmaya - Ot protivostoianiia k sotrudnichestvu" ["FromConfrontation to Cooperation"], in: Diyalog Avrasya ( Istanbul ) No. 3 (Shubat 2001), pp. 60-63 (in both Turkish and Russian languages).

"Šihābaddīn al-Marğānī über Abū n-Nasr al-Qūrsāwī s Konflikt mit den Gelehrten Bucharas (Einleitung, arabischer Text und Übersetzung)", in: von Kügelgen, Muminov, Kemper (eds.), Muslim Culture in Russia and Central Asia, vol. 3, Berlin 2000, pp. 353-383.

Sufis und Gelehrte in Tatarien und Baschkirien. Der islamische Diskurs unter russischer Herrschaft, Berlin: Klaus Schwarz Verlag 1998, 516 pp.

"Musul'manskaia etika i 'dukh kapitalizma'" ["Islamic Ethics and the Spirit of Capitalism"], in: Tatarstan – Obshchestvenno-politicheskii i teoreticheskii zhurnal, no. 8 (Kazan´ 1997), pp. 75-81 (in Russian), also published in the Tatar language: "Möselman etikasï häm 'kapitalizm rukhï' (Mäkhmät Birgävi buyencha)", Tatarstan – ijtimägiy-säyasi häm gïylmi zhurnal, no. 10 (Kazan´ 1997), pp. 25-30.

"Šihābaddīn al-Marğānī als Religionsgelehrter", in: Kemper, von Kügelgen, Yermakov (eds.), Muslim Culture in Russia and Central Asia [vol. I], Berlin 1996, pp. 129-166.

"Entre Boukhara et la Moyenne Volga: ´Abd an-Nasir al-Qursawi (1776-1812) en conflit avec les oulémas traditionalistes", in: Cahiers du Monde russe, vol. 37, (1-2), janvier-juin 1996, pp. 41-52. Also published in Russian: "Mezhdu Bucharoi i Srednei Volgoi: Stolknovenie Abd an-Nasira al-Kursavi s ulemami traditsionalistami", in: Mir Islama (Kazan´),1/2 (1999), pp. 159-170.

3. ON THE MUSLIM HISTORY OF THE CAUCASUS :

“Shariatskii diskurs imamata v Dagestane pervoi poloviny XIX v”, in: Dagestan i musul’manskii vostok. Sbornik statei, posviashchennyi A.R. Shikhsaidovu, ed. A.K. Alikberov and V.O. Bobrovnikov ( Moscow , 2010), 107-124.

(with A.R. Shikhsaidov and N.A. Tagirova), “Biblioteka Imama Shamilia”, in: Dagestan i  musul’manskii vostok. Sbornik statei, posviashchennyi A.R. Shikhsaidovu, ed. A.K. Alikberov and V.O. Bobrovnikov ( Moscow , 2010), 259-272.

“An Island of Classical Arabic in the Caucasus: Daghestan”, in : Exploring the Caucasus in the 21st Century. Essays on Culture, History and Politics in a Dynamic Context, edited by Françoise Companjen, László Marácz and Lia Versteegh ( Amsterdam : AUP, 2010), 63-90.

“Ausprägungen des Islams im Kaukasus“, in: Bernhard Chiari (ed.), Wegweiser zur Geschichte: Kaukasus (Militärgeschichtliches Forschungsamt Potsdam, 2008), 203-220.

“How to Take the Muslim Peripheries Seriously in the Writing of Imperial History?”, in: Ab Imperio: Studies of New Imperial History and Nationalism in the Post-Soviet Space vol. 4, 2008, 472-482.

“Ghazi Muhammad’s Treatise against Daghestani Customary Law”, in: Moshe Gammer (ed.), Islam and Sufism in Daghestan ( Helsinki : Finnish Academy of Sciences and Letters, 2009), 85-100.

"Caucasus", in: Imagology: TheCultural Construction and LiteraryRepresentation of National Characters - A Critical Survey, edited by Manfred Beller and Joep Leerssen ( Amsterdam : Rodopi, 2007), 117-122.

"The NorthCaucasian Khalidiyya and ‚Muridism’: Historiographical Problems",in: Journalfor the History of Sufism vol. 5 (2006), 111-126. Translated into Kurdish (Surani) as: “Tariqati khalidi la bakuwri qawqaz wa ‘muridizm’: kishe la ruwangeyi ruwdawekani mezhuwawa“ , in:  Ribazi sufigari naqshbandi-khalidi: Mawlana Khalid wa tariqati khalidi, ed./transl. Muhammad Salih Tawfiq (Sulamani, 2009), 215-252.

„Jihad and Naqshbandiyya 'Muridism' in the 19th Century North Caucasus", in: Islam and Muslim Societies ( Lucknow , India ), 2007.

"Daghestani Shaykhs and Scholars in Russian Exile: Networks of Sufism, Fatwas and Poetry", in: Daghestan and the World of Islam, edited by Moshe Gammer and David J. Wasserstein (Helsinki 2006), 95-107.

Herrschaft, Recht und Islam in Daghestan. Von den Khanaten und Gemeindebünden zum ğihād-Staat (Caucasian Studies vol. 7), Wiesbaden: Reichert-Verlag 2005, 464 pp.

"´Adat against Shari´a:  Russian Approaches towards Daghestani 'Customary Law' in the 19th Century", Ab Imperio: Theory and Historyof Nationalism and Empire in the Post-Soviet Space ( Kazan '), 3/2005,pp. 147-174.Also published in: Religion et politique dans le Caucase post soviétique, ed. by Bayram Balci and Raoul Motika ( Paris : Maisonneuve Larose), 2007.

"Arabischsprachige 'adat- Ethnographie auf russische Bestellung?", in:Rechtspluralismus in der IslamischenWelt. Gewohnheitsrecht zwischen Staat und Gesellschaft, herausgegeben von Michael Kemper und Maurus Reinkowski, Berlin: De Gruyter 2005, 317-330.

Muslim Culture in Russia and Central Asia, vol. 4: Die Islamgelehrten Daghestans und ihre arabischen Werke. Na d īr ad-Durgilīs (st. 1935) Nuzhat al-a d hān fī tarāğim ´ulamā` Dāġistān, herausgegeben, übersetzt und kommentiert von Michael Kemper und Amri R. Šixsaidov, Berlin: Klaus Schwarz Verlag 2004, 460 pp.

"Übereinkünfte daghestanischer Dorfgemeinden: Die ´Adat von Hidatl (Übersetzung von Michael Kemper unter Mitarbeit von Daria Stepanova)" , in: Rechtspluralismus in der Islamischen Welt, pp. 279-296.

"Communal Agreements (ittifaqat) and ´adat- Books from Daghestani Villages and Confederacies (18th - 19th Centuries)", Der Islam vol. 81 (2004), 115-151.

Michael Kemper, Amri Shikhsaidov and Natalya Tagirova, "The 'Shamil Collection' of the Princeton University Library", in: The Princeton University Library Chronicle, vol. LXVI, no. 1 (Autumn 2002), 121-140. In Russian: “Biblioteka Imama Shamilia”, in: Dagestan i  musul’manskii vostok. Sbornik statei, ed. A.K. Alikberov and V.O. Bobrovnikov ( Moscow : Mardzhani, 2010), 259-272.

"Diskurse, Netzwerke, Strukturen: Das DNS-Modell zur Veranschaulichung von kulturellen Transformationsprozessen", in: Laufende und abgeschlossene Forschungsarbeiten der Nachwuchsgruppe (Volkswagen-Stiftung) Islamische Bildungsnetzwerke im lokalen undtransnationalen Kontext (18-20. Jahrhundert), Bochum , November 2002, pp. 3-26.

"The Daghestani Legal Discourse on the Imamate", in: Central Asian Survey (2002), 21 (3), 161-174. In Russian: “Shariatskii diskurs imamata v Dagestane pervoi poloviny XIX v”, in: Dagestan i musul’manskii vostok. Sbornik statei , ed. A.K. Alikberov and V.O. Bobrovnikov ( Moscow : Mardzhani, 2010), 107-124.

"Khalidiyya Networks in Daghestan and the Question of Jihad ", in: Die Welt des Islams vol. 42, 1 (2002), pp. 41-71 (inEnglish).Alsopublished in Russian: “K voprosu o sufiiskoi osnove dzhikhada v Dagestane”, in: S.N. Abashin, V.O. Bobrovnikov (eds.), Podvizhniki islama: Kul’t sviatykh i sufizm v Srednei Azii i na Kavkaze (Moscow 2003), 278-305.

"Einige Notizen zur arabischsprachigen Literatur der ğihād -Bewegung in Dagestan und Tschetschenien in der ersten Hälfte des 19. Jahrhunderts", in: von Kügelgen, Kemper, Frank (eds.), Muslim Culture in Russia and Central Asia, vol.2, Berlin 1998, pp. 63-100.

4. COMPARATIVE WORK:

"The Changing Images of Jihad Leaders: Shamiland Abd al-Qadir in Daghestani and Algerian Historical Writing", Nova Religio: Journal of Alternative and Emergent Religions , vol. 11, 2 (2007), 28-58.

Rechtspluralismus in der Islamischen Welt. Gewohnheitsrecht zwischen Staat und Gesellschaft, ed. Michael Kemper and Maurus Reinkowski , Berlin : De Gruyter (Studien zur Geschichte und Kultur des islamischen Orients, vol. 16), 2005, 378 pp.

Muslim Culture in Russia and Central Asia, vol. 3: Arabic, Persian and Turkic Manuscripts (15th-19th Centuries), edited by Anke von Kügelgen, Aširbek Muminov, Michael Kemper, Berlin : Klaus Schwarz Verlag 2000, 572 pp.

Muslim Culture in Russia andCentral Asia from the 18th to the Early 20th Centuries, vol. 2: Inter-Regional and Inter-Ethnic Relations, edited by Anke von Kügelgen, Michael Kemper, Allen J. Frank, Berlin : Klaus Schwarz Verlag 1998, 660 pp.

Muslim Culture in Russia and Central Asia from the 18th to the Early 20th Centuries [vol. 1], edited by Michael Kemper, Anke von Kügelgen, Dmitriy Yermakov , Berlin : Klaus Schwarz Verlag 1996, 482 pp.

 

5. ON CENTRAL ASIA AND TURKISH ISLAM:

Islamizatsiia i sakral’nye rodoslovnye v Tsentral’noi Azii. [English title:] Islamization and Sacred Lineages in Central Asia : The Legacy of Ishaq Bab in Narrative and Genealogical Traditions, vol. II: Genealogical Charters and Sacred Families: Nasab-namas and Khoja Groups Linked to the Ishaq Bab Narrative, 19th -21st Centuries. Edited by Ashirbek Muminov, Anke von Kügelgen, Devin DeWeese, Michael Kemper [Series: Disputes on Muslim Authority in Central Asia (19th-20th Centuries): Critical Editions and Source Studies, vol. II)], Almaty: Daik-Press, 2008.

"Tekke Takeovers and Hagiography Writing, 15 th to 20thCenturies:Hajji Bektash, HajjimSultan, Demir Baba and Qaraja Ahmed“, in: Pis’mennye pamiatniki vostoka (Oriental Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow ), no. 2 (7), 2007, 144-167.

Yelizaveta Nekrasova, Die Basare von Buchara, aus dem Russischen übersetzt von Michael Kemper und Ankevon Kügelgen, ANOR Heft 3, Berlin 1999, 57 pp. plus 9 illustrations.

 “Shamsaddin al-Turkmani al-Dhahabi (Zehebi) as a Popularizer of Arabic Sciences in the Muslim World”, in: Muhammed Gaymaz Turkmen – Famous Scientist of the Orient. Muhammet Gaymaz Türkmen – Gündogaryn meşhur alymy. Abstracts and Reports of the International Scientific Conference, February 25-27, 2009 (Ashgabat: Miras, 2009), 77, 167, 252.

“Nejmeddin Kubra, the Dumping of the Book of Science and the Downfall of the Crazy Caliph”, in: Nejmeddin Kubra and the Spiritual-Cultural World of the Orient. Nejmeddin Kubra we Gündogaryn ruhy-medeni dünyasi. Abstracts and Reports of the International Scientific Conference September 4-6, 2008 (Ashgabat: Miras, 2008), 47, 137-138, 236.

“The Place of Abusagyt Abylhayir in the Development of Sufism and Philosophy”, in: Abusagyt Abylhayir – Great Thinker of the East. Abusagyt Abylhayyr – Gündogaryn beyik akyldary. Abstracts and Reports of the International Scientific Conference November 13-15, 2007 (Ashgabat: Miras, 2007), 51, 249-250, 423-424 (in English,Turkmen, Russian).

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