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Morimoto Kazuo

モリモト カズオ | Morimoto Kazuo
Affiliation and department：
The University of Tokyo Institute for Advanced Studies on Asia

About The University of Tokyo Institute for Advanced Studies on Asia


Job title： Professor
Homepage URL  (1)： https://u-tokyo.academia.edu/KazuoMorimoto
Research field  (2)： History - Asia/Africa ,  Religious studies
Research keywords  (12)： Genealogical diagram ,  social history ,  authority, social prestige ,  pedegree ,  Islamic history ,  Iranian history ,  Shiism ,  Kinfolk of the Prophet Muhammad (Ahl al-Bayt) ,  sharif ,  sayyid ,  Iran ,  Islam
Research theme for competitive and other funds  (11)：
  • 2023 - 2027 "Sunnis" and "Shi'is": Historical Inquiries into Confessional Identities and Mutual Perceptions
  • 2023 - 2027 "Sunnis" and "Shi'is": Historical Inquiries into Confessional Identities and Mutual Perceptions
  • 2019 - 2024 Anthropological Studies on Veneration of Saints and Holy Relics in Islam and Christianity
  • 2019 - 2023 Muslim Discourses Surrounding the Prophet Muhammad's Kinfolk
  • 2016 - 2019 Anthropological Studies on Veneration of Saints and Holy Relics in the Mediterranean World
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Papers (41)：
  • 森本一夫. ムスリム共同体と預言者ムハンマド一族:血統による権威と聖性の「継承」. 赤堀雅幸編『イスラームにおける聖性の継承:預言者、聖者の血統と聖遺物』(SIAS Lectures 12). 2025. 17-36
  • Kazuo Morimoto. An Ijāza for Examining Genealogies of Sayyids and Sharīfs from Fifteenth-Century Najaf. Rasūl Jaʿfariyān, Gūdarz Rashtiyānī, Shahrām Yūsufī-far (eds.), Zi Hāmūn sū-yi gardūn: Arj-nāma-ʾi Duktur Manṣūr Ṣifatgul: Maqālātī darbāra-ʾi tārīkh, farhang wa tamaddun-i Īrān-i ʿaṣr-i Ṣafawī (Tehran: Nigāristān-i Andīsha, 2025.2). 2025. 31-46
  • Kazuo Morimoto. A Compendium of Sayyid/Sharīf Genealogy in Diagrammatic Format from the Late Tenth Century. Markus Friedrich and Jörg B. Quenzer (eds.), Genealogical Manuscripts in Cross-Cultural Perspective, Berlin: De Gruyter, 2025, 31-61. 2025. 31-61
  • Kazuo Morimoto. Ibn ʿInaba’s Oeuvre. Laura Bottini and Cristiana Baldazzi (eds.), Il mondo musulmano: Religione, storia, letteratura. Studi in memoria di Biancamaria Scarcia Amoretti, Rome: Istituto per l’Oriente C.A. Nallino, 2024. 2024. 173-202
  • Kazuo Morimoto. The Kinfolk of the Prophet Muhammad Spreading around the World: An Empathic Approach to a ‘Foreign’ Phenomenon. n Eiji Nagasawa and Emi Goto [eds.], Public Lectures on Contemporary Islam, Tokyo: The University of Tokyo Press. 2023. 67-97
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MISC (85)：
  • Kazuo Morimoto. Disturbances and Efflorescence: Culture in the 13th-15th Centuries. Makoto Hachioshi (ed.), Iranian History in Fifty Chapters, Tokyo: Akashi Shoten, forthcoming. 2043
  • Kazuo Morimoto. Persianate World in the 13th-14th Centuries: An Alternative Framework for Looking at the History of Iran. Makoto Hachioshi (ed.), Iranian History in Fifty Chapters, Tokyo: Akashi Shoten, forthcoming. 2043
  • Kazuo Morimoto. Postscript. Kazuo Morimoto, Kie Inoue, Junichi Ono, Makoto Sawai (eds.), Perspectives from within and beyond Islam: Studies in Honor of Professor Shigeru Kamada. 2023. 660-662
  • Kazuo Morimoto, Kie Inoue, Junichi Ono, Makoto Sawai. Preface. Kazuo Morimoto, Kie Inoue, Junichi Ono, Makoto Sawai (eds.), Perspectives from within and beyond Islam: Studies in Honor of Professor Shigeru Kamada. 2023. i-iv
  • Kāzūʾū Mūr. Muqaddama. Manṣūr Ṣifatgul, Bayāḍ-i daftarkhāna-yi humāyūnī-ye dawlat-e Īrān-e ʿAṣr-i Ṣafawī: Daftar-i musawwada, thabt wa dastūr-i dabīrī-yi nigārish-i nāma-hā-yi dīplūmātīk, Tokyo: Markaz-i Pazūhish wa Iṭṭilāʿ-rasānī dar Muṭāliʿāt-i Āsiyāyī, Muʾassisa-yi Muṭāliʿāt-i Pīshrafta-yi Āsiyā, Dānishgāh-i Tūkyū. 2023. xxi-xxii
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Books (12)：
  • `Ali: The Legendary Lion of God
    Yamakawa Shuppansha 2024 ISBN:463435019X
  • Knowledge and Power in Muslim Societies: Approaches in Intellectual History
    Berlin: Gerlach Press, 2023 2023
  • Special issue "Muslims, Islam, and the Kinfolk of ʿAli: Discourses on the 'Family of Prophet Muhammad' and Their Proponents," Oriental Culture 103
    Institute for Advanced Studies on Asia, University of Tokyo 2023
  • Perspectives from within and beyond Islam: Studies in Honor of Professor Shigeru Kamada
    Kyoto: Nakanishiya Shuppan 2023
  • Dictionary of the Cultures of the Middle East and the Orient
    Tokyo: Maruzen 2020
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Lectures and oral presentations  (7)：
  • 13世紀のカイロに生きたある「ナジャフィー」をめぐって
    (日本学術振興会カイロ研究連絡センター第10回懇話会 2025)
  • アジア研究図書館とレザー廟図書館機構:いかなるマッチングか」「文化も薫る聖なる敷居:レザー廟図書館協力覚書調印記念セミナー
    (文化も薫る聖なる敷居:レザー廟図書館協力覚書調印記念セミナー 2025)
  • ダイバー・コレクション:東文研アラビア文字写本群とその新たな電子公開に向けて
    (アジア研究図書館分館設立記念講演会「東文研図書室の新たな旅立ちに向けて」 2024)
  • Eventful Lives of a Sayyid/Sharīf Genealogy: Different Usages, Different Transformations
    (German-Japanese Bilateral Conference “Textual Transmission in the Islamic Manuscript Age: On the Variance, Reception, and the Usage of Arabic and Persian Works from the Middle East to the Indian Subcontinent" 2024)
  • “Itinerant Genealogists from the Shii Community in Iraq in the Era of ‘Confessional Ambiguity’: In Pursuit of the Interests of the Community?
    (Invited lecture a;he Department of;Arabic Language;Culture;National Chengchi University, Taipei 2024)
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Education (4)：
  • 1995 - 1996 The University of Tokyo Graduate School of Humanities and Sociology
  • 1992 - 1995 The University of Tokyo Master's Course, Graduate School of Humanities and Sociology Oriental History
  • 1990 - 1992 The University of Tokyo Faculty of Letters
  • 1988 - 1990 The University of Tokyo College of Arts and Sciences
Professional career (1)：
  • Ph.D. (The University of Tokyo)
Work history (14)：
  • 2024/04 - 現在 Tokyo University of Foreign Studies Research Institute for Languages and Cultures of Asia and Africa
  • 2019/02 - 現在 The University of Tokyo Institute for Advanced Studies on Asia Professor
  • 2017 - 現在 Kyoto University Kenan Rifai Center for Sufi Studies Senior Researcher
  • 2015 - 現在 The Shīʿah Institute (London) Fellow
  • 2019/10 - 2020/03 University of Bonn Alexander von Humboldt Kolleg for Islamicate Intellectual History Visiting Research Professor
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Committee career (25)：
  • 2023/06 - 現在 Co-General Editor, Studies in Islamic Intellectual History series, Gerlach Press
  • 2022/06 - 現在 Society for Near Eastern Studies in Japan Executive Director
  • 2021/04 - 現在 Japan Association for Middle East Studies Member of the Board of Directors
  • 2020 - 現在 Khurāsān-i Buzurg (Emam Reza International University) Member of the Editorial Committee
  • 2018/10 - 現在 Pazhūhishhāyi ʿulūm-i tārīkhī (University of Tehran) Member of the International Editorial Board
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Awards (4)：
  • 2025/11 - Middle East Medievalists Honorary Membership
  • 2010 - Japan Society for the Promotion of Science Excellent Young Researcher Overseas Visit Program Grant Study on the Kinfolk (Sayyids/Sharifs) of the Prophet Muhammad
  • 2008/10 - Embassy of the I. R. Iran in Japan Commendation for contributions to the introduction of Iranian culture to Japan
  • 2008/01 - Ministry of Science, Research and Technology, Islamic Republic of Iran Farabi International Award (qabel-e taqdir)
Association Membership(s) (9)：
Middle East Medievalists ,  Middle East Studies Association ,  Association for Iranian Studies ,  Association for the Study of Persianate Societies ,  The Historical Association of Hokkaido University ,  Society for Near Eastern Studies in Japan ,  Association for Islamic Studies in Japan ,  The Historical Society of Japan ,  Japan Association for Middle East Studies
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