Morimoto Kazuo

モリモトカズオ | Morimoto Kazuo

Affiliation and department：
Job title： Professor
Homepage URL (1)： https://u-tokyo.academia.edu/KazuoMorimoto

Research field (2)： History - Asia/Africa , Religious studies

Research keywords (11)： 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 (10)：

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
2012 - 2016 The Prophet's Family in Islamic Jurisprudence

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Papers (38)：

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. A Jaʿfarid Zaynabid Genealogy from Thirteenth-Century Egypt: ʿUrbān Uprising, Najafī Connection, and the Representation of the Twelve Imams. Kazuo Morimoto and Sajjad H. Rizvi (eds.), Knowledge and Power in Muslim Societies: Approaches in Intellectual History, Berlin: Gerlach Press, 2023. 2023. 221-260
Kazuo Morimoto. Mnemonic Rhymes and Ulama’s Scholarly Activities in the Mamluk Period: Versification as a Catalyst for the Organization of Knowledge. Kazuo Morimoto, Kie Inoue, Makoto Sawai, Junichi Ono (eds.), Perspectives from within and beyond Islam: Studies in Honor of Professor Shigeru Kamada, Kyoto: Nakanishiya Shuppan, 2023. 2023. 482-501
Kazuo Morimoto. Promoting Sayyids in Contemporary Iran: Karāmāt-e sādāt by Bāqeriyān Movaḥḥed. Oriental Culture. 2023. 103. 31-54

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MISC (86)：

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. The Kinfolk of the Prophet Muhammad Spreading around the World: An Empathic Approach to a ‘Foreign’ Phenomenon. The Greater UTokyo: How to Get along with Islam (provisional title), Tokyo: The University of Tokyo Press, forthcoming. 2023. 67-97
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

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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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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

2018 - 現在 Bibliothèque Iranienne, L’Institut Français de Recherche en Iran and Brepols Member of the Editorial Committee

2017 - 現在 The Shīʿah Institute Symposia series, Shīʿah Institute Press (SIP) Member of the Editorial Advisory Board

2017 - 現在 Iranian Studies Member of the Editorial Board

2017 - 現在 Journal of Persianate Studies Member of the Editorial Board

2016 - 現在 The Classical Shīʿah Library series, Brill Member of the Editorial Advisory Board

2015 - 現在 Association for the Study of Persianate Societies Director of the Japan Office

2007 - 現在 Japan Association for Middle East Studies Member of the Board of Trustees

2002 - 現在 Routledge Persian and Shi‘ite Studies series Member of the Editorial Board

2022/01 - 2022/12 Association for the Study of Persianate Societies Acting President

2019/01 - 2022/12 Association for the Study of Persianate Societies Vice President

2020 - 2022 Society for Near Eastern Studies in Japan Chair of the Public Relations Committee

2014 - 2022 Society for Near Eastern Studies in Japan Member of the Board of Directors

2018 - 2020 Society for Near Eastern Studies in Japan Deputy Editor-In-Chief

2013/04 - 2019/03 Japan Association for Middle East Studies Member of the Board of Directors

2014 - 2018 Society for Near Eastern Studies in Japan Editor-in-Chief

2006 - 2018 Society for Near Eastern Studies in Japan Member of the Editorial Board

2017 - Du-faṣlnāma-ʾi Muṭāliʿāt-i Asnād-i Mīrāth-i Farhangī (published by Pazhūhishgāh-i Mīrāth-i Farhangī wa Gardishgarī, Iran) Member of the Editorial Board

2012 - 2014 Society for Near Eastern Studies in Japan Deputy Editor-In-Chief

2011 - 2013 National Center for University Entrance Examinations Member of the First Committee (World History)

2006 - 2011 International Journal of Asian Studies Executive Editor

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Awards (3)：

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) (8)：

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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