Bjørn Olav Utvik
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 1296951 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Bjørn Olav Utvik |
| NOMBRES | Bjørn Olav |
| APELLIDO | Utvik |
| FIRMA | UTVIK B O |
| AFILIACIONES | University of Oslo |
| VERIFICADO | No |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 14 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 11 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 13 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 1 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1993 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 2 |
Trouble brewing in the circus
Over the last twenty years the ultras phenomenon has emerged in Morocco, organizing fanatical support for football teams, but also expressing social and political protest. Here we seek to close in on an understanding of the socio-political role of the Moroccan ultras, seeking to situate them in relation to the dominant power of the makhzen, the royal court and its allied power elite, as well as to the major oppositional trend of Islamism. Should …
Introduction
This special issue is the result of a project that started in 2021 on football culture and religion in the Middle East.1 In 2024, we made a call for papers on the role of football as a force for cu
Anmeldelse av Florence Bergeaud-Blackler, Broderismen. Sådan undergraver islamister de vestlige samfund, (Forlaget Pressto, København, 2024
Vesten (og resten av verden) er truet av en langsom, planmessig islamisering som har som mål å etablere et verdensomspennende nytt kalifat, som skal styres etter sharia-lover. Den sentrale kraften som driver fram denne planen er Det muslimske brorskap, som arbeider gjennom et intrikat og tåkelagt nettverk av organisasjoner og enkeltpersoner, hvorav mange ikke er klar over sin egen rolle i prosjektet. Dette er budskapet i en bok av den franske ant…
Football in the Middle East
Football has long been the most popular sport across the Middle East and North Africa (MENA). In the Arab world, as well as in Turkey, Iran, and among the Jewish population in Israel, almost everyb
Salafism and Traditionalism
What Role for the Sisters? Islamist Movements between Authenticity and Equality
In mainstream Islamist discourse, there is an awkward coexistence between recognition of women as equal political actors and affirmation of a traditional Muslim view of the man as head of the family. Islamism emerged in countries where patriarchy has remained deeply engrained. Yet their stances have varied. In Morocco, female Islamists have pushed for women's rights and a guarded opening towards cooperation with feminists. In contrast, the Muslim…
A question of faith? Islamists and secularists fight over the post-Mubarak state
Since the military coup of July 3, 2013, guns and batons have, broadly speaking, taken the place of open debate and elections in deciding the political future of Egypt. How can the political struggle be understood with regard to the shape and content of the reformed post-Mubarak state that took place during the period of relative free debate and of tentative steps towards a democratic system between February 11, 2011 and July 3, 2013. In light of…
Oil States in the New Middle East
Chapter one: Introduction: The Rentier Bargain at the Trial of the Arab Uprisings Bjorn Olav Utvik Chapter two: Re-thinking the Politics of Distributive States: Lessons from the Arab Uprisings Gwenn Okruhlik Chapter three: Youth and the Arab revolutions Kjetil Bjorvatn and Jacob Hoigilt Chapter four: Guest workers as a barrier to democratization in oil-rich countries Halvor Mehlum, Kalle Moene and Gry Ostenstad Chapter five: Back to the 70s? Saud…
The Ikhwanization of the Salafi s
This article discusses how to make sense of the seeming paradox of the hitherto apolitical salafis forming parties and joining the competitive political scene. A dominant salafi attitude has been that Islam dictates for the ordinary believer absolute obedience to the ruler, the wali al-amr, even when that ruler is a less-than-pious Muslim and may deviate from the word of God. At the outset of the movement that led to the fall of Husni Mubarak, th…
Violence and Power
Islamists from a Distance
Research on Islamism needs to move closer to its object and to study that object more closely in its interaction with its environment. Despite great advances in recent years, academic literature on the topic still too often suffers from a double distancing: the researcher tends, first, to remain unnecessarily removed from Islamic movements as the object of study and, second, to study those movements at a distance from the society in which they gr…
Religious revivalism in nineteenth-century Norway and twentieth-century Egypt
The aim of this article is to challenge the idea that the current Islamist movements could fruitfully be considered to belong to a global category of fundamentalism. For this purpose it is necessary to criticize the most sophisticated attempts that have been made to argue for the existence of such a general phenomenon, with Islamism as one of its most prominent constituent parts
Hizb al-Wasat and the Potential for Change in Egyptian Islamism
The past year has seen a fresh invigoration of the Egyptian political scene, with criticism of the regime being voiced more openly, an unprecedented wave of street demonstrations in favor of politi
Islamism
Bjørn Olav Utvik, ‘Islamism: Digesting Modernity the Islamic Way’, Forum for Development Studies, No. 2, 1993, pp. 197–210. How can the movements fighting for an Islamic state in which the Islamic Law, the Sharīca, rules supreme, best be understood: as part of a cross-creedal reaction against modernist thought or as a broad and diverse attempt to understand and tackle the problems of modernity through reconnecting with an indigenous symbolic syst…
The Ikhwanization of the Salafi s
This article discusses how to make sense of the seeming paradox of the hitherto apolitical salafis forming parties and joining the competitive political scene. A dominant salafi attitude has been that Islam dictates for the ordinary believer absolute obedience to the ruler, the wali al-amr, even when that ruler is a less-than-pious Muslim and may deviate from the word of God. At the outset of the movement that led to the fall of Husni Mubarak, th…
Islamism
Bjørn Olav Utvik, ‘Islamism: Digesting Modernity the Islamic Way’, Forum for Development Studies, No. 2, 1993, pp. 197–210. How can the movements fighting for an Islamic state in which the Islamic Law, the Sharīca, rules supreme, best be understood: as part of a cross-creedal reaction against modernist thought or as a broad and diverse attempt to understand and tackle the problems of modernity through reconnecting with an indigenous symbolic syst…
A question of faith? Islamists and secularists fight over the post-Mubarak state
Since the military coup of July 3, 2013, guns and batons have, broadly speaking, taken the place of open debate and elections in deciding the political future of Egypt. How can the political struggle be understood with regard to the shape and content of the reformed post-Mubarak state that took place during the period of relative free debate and of tentative steps towards a democratic system between February 11, 2011 and July 3, 2013. In light of…
Religious revivalism in nineteenth-century Norway and twentieth-century Egypt
The aim of this article is to challenge the idea that the current Islamist movements could fruitfully be considered to belong to a global category of fundamentalism. For this purpose it is necessary to criticize the most sophisticated attempts that have been made to argue for the existence of such a general phenomenon, with Islamism as one of its most prominent constituent parts
Islamism
Bjørn Olav Utvik, ‘Islamism: Digesting Modernity the Islamic Way’, Forum for Development Studies, No. 2, 1993, pp. 197–210. How can the movements fighting for an Islamic state in which the Islamic Law, the Sharīca, rules supreme, best be understood: as part of a cross-creedal reaction against modernist thought or as a broad and diverse attempt to understand and tackle the problems of modernity through reconnecting with an indigenous symbolic syst…
Hizb al-Wasat and the Potential for Change in Egyptian Islamism
The past year has seen a fresh invigoration of the Egyptian political scene, with criticism of the regime being voiced more openly, an unprecedented wave of street demonstrations in favor of politi
Religious revivalism in nineteenth-century Norway and twentieth-century Egypt
The aim of this article is to challenge the idea that the current Islamist movements could fruitfully be considered to belong to a global category of fundamentalism. For this purpose it is necessary to criticize the most sophisticated attempts that have been made to argue for the existence of such a general phenomenon, with Islamism as one of its most prominent constituent parts
Violence and Power
Islamists from a Distance
Research on Islamism needs to move closer to its object and to study that object more closely in its interaction with its environment. Despite great advances in recent years, academic literature on the topic still too often suffers from a double distancing: the researcher tends, first, to remain unnecessarily removed from Islamic movements as the object of study and, second, to study those movements at a distance from the society in which they gr…
The Ikhwanization of the Salafi s
This article discusses how to make sense of the seeming paradox of the hitherto apolitical salafis forming parties and joining the competitive political scene. A dominant salafi attitude has been that Islam dictates for the ordinary believer absolute obedience to the ruler, the wali al-amr, even when that ruler is a less-than-pious Muslim and may deviate from the word of God. At the outset of the movement that led to the fall of Husni Mubarak, th…
Oil States in the New Middle East
Chapter one: Introduction: The Rentier Bargain at the Trial of the Arab Uprisings Bjorn Olav Utvik Chapter two: Re-thinking the Politics of Distributive States: Lessons from the Arab Uprisings Gwenn Okruhlik Chapter three: Youth and the Arab revolutions Kjetil Bjorvatn and Jacob Hoigilt Chapter four: Guest workers as a barrier to democratization in oil-rich countries Halvor Mehlum, Kalle Moene and Gry Ostenstad Chapter five: Back to the 70s? Saud…
A question of faith? Islamists and secularists fight over the post-Mubarak state
Since the military coup of July 3, 2013, guns and batons have, broadly speaking, taken the place of open debate and elections in deciding the political future of Egypt. How can the political struggle be understood with regard to the shape and content of the reformed post-Mubarak state that took place during the period of relative free debate and of tentative steps towards a democratic system between February 11, 2011 and July 3, 2013. In light of…
Salafism and Traditionalism
What Role for the Sisters? Islamist Movements between Authenticity and Equality
In mainstream Islamist discourse, there is an awkward coexistence between recognition of women as equal political actors and affirmation of a traditional Muslim view of the man as head of the family. Islamism emerged in countries where patriarchy has remained deeply engrained. Yet their stances have varied. In Morocco, female Islamists have pushed for women's rights and a guarded opening towards cooperation with feminists. In contrast, the Muslim…
Football in the Middle East
Football has long been the most popular sport across the Middle East and North Africa (MENA). In the Arab world, as well as in Turkey, Iran, and among the Jewish population in Israel, almost everyb
Trouble brewing in the circus
Over the last twenty years the ultras phenomenon has emerged in Morocco, organizing fanatical support for football teams, but also expressing social and political protest. Here we seek to close in on an understanding of the socio-political role of the Moroccan ultras, seeking to situate them in relation to the dominant power of the makhzen, the royal court and its allied power elite, as well as to the major oppositional trend of Islamism. Should …
Introduction
This special issue is the result of a project that started in 2021 on football culture and religion in the Middle East.1 In 2024, we made a call for papers on the role of football as a force for cu
Anmeldelse av Florence Bergeaud-Blackler, Broderismen. Sådan undergraver islamister de vestlige samfund, (Forlaget Pressto, København, 2024
Vesten (og resten av verden) er truet av en langsom, planmessig islamisering som har som mål å etablere et verdensomspennende nytt kalifat, som skal styres etter sharia-lover. Den sentrale kraften som driver fram denne planen er Det muslimske brorskap, som arbeider gjennom et intrikat og tåkelagt nettverk av organisasjoner og enkeltpersoner, hvorav mange ikke er klar over sin egen rolle i prosjektet. Dette er budskapet i en bok av den franske ant…
Political science (10 obras) · Sociology (8 obras) · Islamic Studies and History (7 obras) · Law (7 obras) · Politics (6 obras) · History (5 obras) · Islam (5 obras) · Philosophy (5 obras) · Law (4 obras) · Philosophy (4 obras)