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Research paper thumbnail of 高尾賢一郎、後藤絵美『宗教と風紀――〈聖なる規範〉から読み解く現代』岩波書店　2021 年　ix＋356頁

Research paper thumbnail of 『大学生・社会人のためのイスラーム講座』小杉泰・黒田賢治・二ツ山達朗編、ナカニシヤ出版、2018年（in Japanese）

Annual Review of Asia-Japan Research at Ritsumeikan, 2020

Research paper thumbnail of 安田慎『イスラミック・ツーリズムの勃興：宗教の観光資源化』ナカニシヤ出版2016年244頁（in Japanese）

Kyoto Bulletin of Islamic Area Studies, 2017

Research paper thumbnail of 東長靖.「イスラームとスーフィズム一神秘主養・聖者信仰・道徳』名古屋大学出版会, 2013 年, 314P./Yasushi Tonaga. Islam and Sufism: Mysticism, Saint Cult and Ethics. Nagoya: The University of Nagoya Press, 2013, 314pp.（in Japanese）

Asian and African Area Studies, 2014

Research paper thumbnail of John Renard (ed.): Tales of God’s Friends. Islamic Hagiography in Translation. Berkeley, Los Angeles and London 2009: University of California Press, XV +413S. ISBN 978-0-520-25896-9, $ 24.95

Der Islam, 2012

Rezensionen Den Abschluss der Sammlung bildet ein Beitrag von Leigh Chipman, die der Hippokrates-... more Rezensionen Den Abschluss der Sammlung bildet ein Beitrag von Leigh Chipman, die der Hippokrates-Rezeption in der arabischen Pharmazeutik nachgehen wollte. Das Ergebnis war jedoch recht ernüchternd: in dieser Literaturgattung gibt es kaum Einflüsse des Koers. Letztlich verwundert dies auch nicht, da die graeco-arabische Tradition hier ganz andere Wege genommen hatte und Komposita im eigentlichen Sinne im Corpus Hippocraticum rar sind. Unter den von der Verf. angeführten Therapien aus Buch II des Epidemienkommentars (S. 286ff.) findet sich z.B. gerade einmal ein einziges echtes Rezept. Trotz dieses Negativergebnisses kann der Leser doch Gewinn aus dem Artikel ziehen, da auch auf die allgemeine Überlieferungsgeschichte der arabischen Dispensatorien eingegangen wird. Hierzu gehören etwa nützliche Erkenntnisse über Ibn Sarabiyuns Aqrabaüin sagir. Jeder, der an philologischen Fragestellungen Interesse hat, wird an dem besprochenen Band seine Freude haben. Hier wird auf engem Raum aufgezeigt, was bei der Überlieferung von Texten über die Jahrtausende alles geschehen kann. Die einen Kommentatoren instrumentalisieren ihre Vorlage für eigene Zwecke, andere arbeiten mit Mitteln, die schon die moderne Textkritik vorwegnehmen. Kommentare werden mit dem Grundtext kontaminiert und umgekehrt. Frühmittelalterliche Übersetzer greifen in den Text ein, um ein für die Leser gefälliges Produkt herzustellen und frühe Humanisten erfinden aus demselben Grund ganze Passagen ihrer Editionen selbst. Der Rez. findet dies alles spannender als so manchen Kriminalroman und ist erfreut, dass er mit dieser Ansicht noch nicht allein ist. 9

Research paper thumbnail of 佐藤次高著『聖者イブラーヒーム伝説』東京：角川書店，2001年，242頁，8,000円＋税（in Japanese）

Bulletin of the Society for Near Eastern Studies in Japan (Nippon Oriento Gakkai) , 2001

Research paper thumbnail of 鷹木恵子著『北アフリカのイスラーム聖者信仰――チュニジア・セダダ村の歴史民族誌――』東京：刀水書房，2000年，viii+369+45頁，8,000円+税（in Japanese）

Bulletin of the Society for Near Eastern Studies in Japan (Nippon Oriento Gakkai) , 2001

Research paper thumbnail of 加藤博著『アブー・スィネータ村の醜聞：裁判文書からみたエジプトの村社会』創文社　1997年　vii+240+23ページ/H.Kato, A Scandal of Abu Senita: Egyptian Village Society as Reflected in Court Documents, Sobunsha, 1997, vii+240+23 pp.（in Japanese）

Papers by Masayuki Akahori

Research paper thumbnail of 赤堀「中東民族誌の四半世紀を振り返る」

『社会人類学年報』49巻、弘文堂, 2023

“Reflections on a Quarter Century of Middle Eastern Ethnographies,” Social Anthropological Associ... more “Reflections on a Quarter Century of Middle Eastern Ethnographies,” Social Anthropological Association, Tokyo Metropolitan University (ed.), Annual Report of Social Anthropology, vol. 49, Tokyo: Koubundou

Research paper thumbnail of Geo-historical survey of Ghanem al-Ali and Wadi al-Rahum (Preliminary reports of the Syria-Japan archaeological joint research in the region of Ar-Raqqa, Syria, 2009) -- (Archaeological research in the Bishri region: report of the eighth working season)

Research paper thumbnail of Narrating Tales of Saints Is Making Saints

Research paper thumbnail of Towards a Dynamic View of Sufism and Saint Veneration in Islam : An Anthropological Approach (Special Feature : The Vicissitudes of the Sufi Movement in Society : Past and Present)

Research paper thumbnail of Sociological and Anthropological Studies

Research paper thumbnail of Editor's Preface (Special Feature : The Vicissitudes of the Sufi Movement in Society : Past and Present)

Research paper thumbnail of In Memory of Late Professor OHTSUKA Kazuo (1949-2009)

Bulletin of the Society for Near Eastern Studies in Japan, 2009

Research paper thumbnail of Democracy in the Desert? The Bedouin in the Western Desert and the National Election to the People's Assembly in 1990, Egypt

In 1990 the electorate of the governorate of Marsa Matrouh in the Western Desert of Egypt chose f... more In 1990 the electorate of the governorate of Marsa Matrouh in the Western Desert of Egypt chose four members of the ruling National Democratic Party as their representatives for the People's Assembly. However, the Bedouin forming the majority of the population explained that these were Bedouin representatives, nominated in the meetings of the tribal chiefs based on the consideration of fairness among the tribal groups in the district. This paper analyses the process of selecting candidates for the national election and its public acceptance. In particular, unusual appearance of strong rival candidates among the Bedouin in 1990 revealed the difference between rhetoric and political reality, given that every candidate claimed to have obtained the unanimous agreement of all the Bedouin before the election and even before the tribal meetings. The institutionalized setting of the national election and the strategic enterprises of the main actors including the candidates are all related to the discourse of "B edouin democracy" which they advocate as being traditional and legitimate. The political process also serves to strengthen the distinctive social identity of the contemporary Bedouin, as symbolized in the TV images of the representatives appearing in the assembly hall in their traditional Bedouin robes.

Research paper thumbnail of Introductory Remarks: New Emerging Networks of Sufis and Saint Venerators in Contemporary Islam

Research paper thumbnail of The transformation of saintliness in the process of succession: saints and their descendants in the western desert of Egypt (平成十九年度「イスラーム世界における伝統的秩序規範の持続と変容」プロジェンクト)

Research paper thumbnail of Asl : The Expression of Ancestry among the Bedouin of the Mediterranean Coast of Egypt

The Japanese journal of ethnology, Mar 30, 1994

Research paper thumbnail of SOCIOLOGICAL AND ANTHROPOLOGICAL STUDIES:Started Later but Developing Rapidly

Research paper thumbnail of 高尾賢一郎、後藤絵美『宗教と風紀――〈聖なる規範〉から読み解く現代』岩波書店　2021 年　ix＋356頁

Research paper thumbnail of 『大学生・社会人のためのイスラーム講座』小杉泰・黒田賢治・二ツ山達朗編、ナカニシヤ出版、2018年（in Japanese）

Annual Review of Asia-Japan Research at Ritsumeikan, 2020

Research paper thumbnail of 安田慎『イスラミック・ツーリズムの勃興：宗教の観光資源化』ナカニシヤ出版2016年244頁（in Japanese）

Kyoto Bulletin of Islamic Area Studies, 2017

Research paper thumbnail of 東長靖.「イスラームとスーフィズム一神秘主養・聖者信仰・道徳』名古屋大学出版会, 2013 年, 314P./Yasushi Tonaga. Islam and Sufism: Mysticism, Saint Cult and Ethics. Nagoya: The University of Nagoya Press, 2013, 314pp.（in Japanese）

Asian and African Area Studies, 2014

Research paper thumbnail of John Renard (ed.): Tales of God’s Friends. Islamic Hagiography in Translation. Berkeley, Los Angeles and London 2009: University of California Press, XV +413S. ISBN 978-0-520-25896-9, $ 24.95

Der Islam, 2012

Rezensionen Den Abschluss der Sammlung bildet ein Beitrag von Leigh Chipman, die der Hippokrates-... more Rezensionen Den Abschluss der Sammlung bildet ein Beitrag von Leigh Chipman, die der Hippokrates-Rezeption in der arabischen Pharmazeutik nachgehen wollte. Das Ergebnis war jedoch recht ernüchternd: in dieser Literaturgattung gibt es kaum Einflüsse des Koers. Letztlich verwundert dies auch nicht, da die graeco-arabische Tradition hier ganz andere Wege genommen hatte und Komposita im eigentlichen Sinne im Corpus Hippocraticum rar sind. Unter den von der Verf. angeführten Therapien aus Buch II des Epidemienkommentars (S. 286ff.) findet sich z.B. gerade einmal ein einziges echtes Rezept. Trotz dieses Negativergebnisses kann der Leser doch Gewinn aus dem Artikel ziehen, da auch auf die allgemeine Überlieferungsgeschichte der arabischen Dispensatorien eingegangen wird. Hierzu gehören etwa nützliche Erkenntnisse über Ibn Sarabiyuns Aqrabaüin sagir. Jeder, der an philologischen Fragestellungen Interesse hat, wird an dem besprochenen Band seine Freude haben. Hier wird auf engem Raum aufgezeigt, was bei der Überlieferung von Texten über die Jahrtausende alles geschehen kann. Die einen Kommentatoren instrumentalisieren ihre Vorlage für eigene Zwecke, andere arbeiten mit Mitteln, die schon die moderne Textkritik vorwegnehmen. Kommentare werden mit dem Grundtext kontaminiert und umgekehrt. Frühmittelalterliche Übersetzer greifen in den Text ein, um ein für die Leser gefälliges Produkt herzustellen und frühe Humanisten erfinden aus demselben Grund ganze Passagen ihrer Editionen selbst. Der Rez. findet dies alles spannender als so manchen Kriminalroman und ist erfreut, dass er mit dieser Ansicht noch nicht allein ist. 9

Research paper thumbnail of 佐藤次高著『聖者イブラーヒーム伝説』東京：角川書店，2001年，242頁，8,000円＋税（in Japanese）

Bulletin of the Society for Near Eastern Studies in Japan (Nippon Oriento Gakkai) , 2001

Research paper thumbnail of 鷹木恵子著『北アフリカのイスラーム聖者信仰――チュニジア・セダダ村の歴史民族誌――』東京：刀水書房，2000年，viii+369+45頁，8,000円+税（in Japanese）

Bulletin of the Society for Near Eastern Studies in Japan (Nippon Oriento Gakkai) , 2001

Research paper thumbnail of 加藤博著『アブー・スィネータ村の醜聞：裁判文書からみたエジプトの村社会』創文社　1997年　vii+240+23ページ/H.Kato, A Scandal of Abu Senita: Egyptian Village Society as Reflected in Court Documents, Sobunsha, 1997, vii+240+23 pp.（in Japanese）

Research paper thumbnail of 赤堀「中東民族誌の四半世紀を振り返る」

『社会人類学年報』49巻、弘文堂, 2023

“Reflections on a Quarter Century of Middle Eastern Ethnographies,” Social Anthropological Associ... more “Reflections on a Quarter Century of Middle Eastern Ethnographies,” Social Anthropological Association, Tokyo Metropolitan University (ed.), Annual Report of Social Anthropology, vol. 49, Tokyo: Koubundou

Research paper thumbnail of Geo-historical survey of Ghanem al-Ali and Wadi al-Rahum (Preliminary reports of the Syria-Japan archaeological joint research in the region of Ar-Raqqa, Syria, 2009) -- (Archaeological research in the Bishri region: report of the eighth working season)

Research paper thumbnail of Narrating Tales of Saints Is Making Saints

Research paper thumbnail of Towards a Dynamic View of Sufism and Saint Veneration in Islam : An Anthropological Approach (Special Feature : The Vicissitudes of the Sufi Movement in Society : Past and Present)

Research paper thumbnail of Sociological and Anthropological Studies

Research paper thumbnail of Editor's Preface (Special Feature : The Vicissitudes of the Sufi Movement in Society : Past and Present)

Research paper thumbnail of In Memory of Late Professor OHTSUKA Kazuo (1949-2009)

Bulletin of the Society for Near Eastern Studies in Japan, 2009

Research paper thumbnail of Democracy in the Desert? The Bedouin in the Western Desert and the National Election to the People's Assembly in 1990, Egypt

In 1990 the electorate of the governorate of Marsa Matrouh in the Western Desert of Egypt chose f... more In 1990 the electorate of the governorate of Marsa Matrouh in the Western Desert of Egypt chose four members of the ruling National Democratic Party as their representatives for the People's Assembly. However, the Bedouin forming the majority of the population explained that these were Bedouin representatives, nominated in the meetings of the tribal chiefs based on the consideration of fairness among the tribal groups in the district. This paper analyses the process of selecting candidates for the national election and its public acceptance. In particular, unusual appearance of strong rival candidates among the Bedouin in 1990 revealed the difference between rhetoric and political reality, given that every candidate claimed to have obtained the unanimous agreement of all the Bedouin before the election and even before the tribal meetings. The institutionalized setting of the national election and the strategic enterprises of the main actors including the candidates are all related to the discourse of "B edouin democracy" which they advocate as being traditional and legitimate. The political process also serves to strengthen the distinctive social identity of the contemporary Bedouin, as symbolized in the TV images of the representatives appearing in the assembly hall in their traditional Bedouin robes.

Research paper thumbnail of Introductory Remarks: New Emerging Networks of Sufis and Saint Venerators in Contemporary Islam

Research paper thumbnail of The transformation of saintliness in the process of succession: saints and their descendants in the western desert of Egypt (平成十九年度「イスラーム世界における伝統的秩序規範の持続と変容」プロジェンクト)

Research paper thumbnail of Asl : The Expression of Ancestry among the Bedouin of the Mediterranean Coast of Egypt

The Japanese journal of ethnology, Mar 30, 1994

Research paper thumbnail of SOCIOLOGICAL AND ANTHROPOLOGICAL STUDIES:Started Later but Developing Rapidly

Research paper thumbnail of Towards a Dynamic View of Sufism and Saint Veneration in Islam: An Anthropological Approach

イスラーム世界研究 : Kyoto Bulletin of Islamic Area Studies, Mar 16, 2015

Research paper thumbnail of Ziyāra and saint veneration among the Bedouins in the Western Desert of Egypt

Islamic Area Studies Project eBooks, 2002

The article in this volume is a revised edition of the paper read earlier at the International Wo... more The article in this volume is a revised edition of the paper read earlier at the International Workshop of Research Unit 5, of the Islamic Area Studies Project. The workshop was entitled “Ziyara: Ethno-Historical Study of Muslim Visitation to Religious Places,” and was held at Sophia University on February 25 and 26, 1999. Group A of Unit 5, having as its main theme popular beliefs in Islam, played a major role in the workshop. Group C of Research Unit 2 also provided a great deal of support to the workshop, on the basis of its research work dealing with Sufism. The workshop was held in collaboration with the Institute of Asian Cultures of Sophia University, which invited one of the participants, namely Professor Abderrahmane Lakhsassi of Mohammed V University-Agdal, in Rabat, Morocco, as a visiting professor, from February 19 and March 6.

Research paper thumbnail of Narrating Tales of Saints Is Making Saints:Three Different Hagiographic Traditons of a Muslim Saint in the Egyptian Desert

Orient, 2007

Until recently, many scholars have presupposed inseparable unity between Sufism and saint venerat... more Until recently, many scholars have presupposed inseparable unity between Sufism and saint veneration. It is true that most of the Muslim saints are so-called Sufi saints, although some anthropologists showed cases of non-Sufi Muslim saints. However, the forms of Sufism and saint veneration vary, and the manner in which they are combined is even more diverse. Therefore, we should treat Sufism and saint veneration as distinct phenomena and should ask ourselves what conditions determine the form of combination. In this paper, three different hagiographic traditions of a Muslim saint in the Western Desert of Egypt are introduced. It is shown that Bedouins, settled Bedouins, and non-Bedouins each have their own tales about this saint. Further, it can be seen that each tradition has a particular form of combination of Sufism and saint veneration, corresponding to the social position of its narrators. At the end of this paper, the case of the Sanusi order is examined to suggest that the above notion can be applied to the historical events in which the organization of the Sufi order and that of the tribal people were combined to give birth to the embryonic nationalism in Libya.

Research paper thumbnail of When the Saints Go Marching into the Desert

Bulletin of the Society for Near Eastern Studies in Japan, 1995

Among the Bedouin living in the Mediterranean coastal zone of the Egyptian Western Desert, a word... more Among the Bedouin living in the Mediterranean coastal zone of the Egyptian Western Desert, a word ‘faqih’ (fgi in the dialect) denotes a distinguished religious person living and having lived with them in the desert. Based on anthropological fieldwork, this paper analyses how the Bedouin talk about and behave towards faqihs, which should give insight to the Bedouin's traditional practice of lslam.Faqihs, both alive and dead, are frequently requested by the Bedouin to grant various kinds of wishes. Here two concepts, knowledge and grace, are crucial to understand the two different modes of being a faqih; living faqihs provide some religious services because they know Islam much better than the Bedouin; dead fagihs are thought to provide similar favors because they are given the grace of God as power to cause miracles on them and to be mediated to the Bedouin.That faqih is usually a stranger coming from the outside of the desert is the third important point. In principle, Islamic knowledge is open to everyone and only God knows to whom He gives his grace. Therefore, faqihs' being privileged holders of such knowledge or grace is not normative but practical, which is highly convenient for the Bedouin's practice of Islam. As an articulate point to the God and to the Muslim community as a whole, faqihs create internal homogeneity among the Bedouin and facilitate their effective incorporation into the wider outside. An outsider living along with them is quite suitable to such a social position.In Bedouin saint worship, it seems that two opposite polarities are at work; one is toward the assimilation of all the Muslims and the other is toward the differentiation; they have created a balance in the form of social articulation as faqih, which I may suggest is just a possible solution and that we would also find many other different balances in every socio-religious practice of Islam in the world.

Research paper thumbnail of Partly Saints and Partly Bedouins ： The Murabitin People among the Bedouins of the Western Desert of Egypt

上智アジア学, Dec 27, 2004

... The principle of patrilineal descent thus served to link ancestry, social grouping, and terri... more ... The principle of patrilineal descent thus served to link ancestry, social grouping, and territoriality/7' According to this principle, the Bedouins of the Western Desert divide themselves into five major groups of tribes: the 'All al-Abyad, the 'All al-Ahmar, the Sinina, the Jumi'at, and ...

Research paper thumbnail of 『オリエンタリズム』と中東民族誌の今日

Research paper thumbnail of Towards a Dynamic View of Sufism and Saint Veneration in Islam : An Anthropological Approach (Special Feature : The Vicissitudes of the Sufi Movement in Society : Past and Present)

Research paper thumbnail of Egypt as a Touchstone of Contemporary Area Studies (<Special Feature> The 30 Years of the Japan Association for Middle East Studies: Its Past and Future)

Annals of Japan Association for Middle East Studies, 2014

Research paper thumbnail of Ziyara and Saint Veneration among the Bedouins in the Western Desert of Egypt

Islamic Area Studies Working Paper Series, 2002

The article in this volume is a revised edition of the paper read earlier at the International Wo... more The article in this volume is a revised edition of the paper read earlier at the International Workshop of Research Unit 5, of the Islamic Area Studies Project. The workshop was entitled “Ziyara: Ethno-Historical Study of Muslim Visitation to Religious Places,” and was held at Sophia University on February 25 and 26, 1999. Group A of Unit 5, having as its main theme popular beliefs in Islam, played a major role in the workshop. Group C of Research Unit 2 also provided a great deal of support to the workshop, on the basis of its research work dealing with Sufism. The workshop was held in collaboration with the Institute of Asian Cultures of Sophia University, which invited one of the participants, namely Professor Abderrahmane Lakhsassi of Mohammed V University-Agdal, in Rabat, Morocco, as a visiting professor, from February 19 and March 6.