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Prof. dr. M. (Michael) Kemper

East European Studies
Faculty of Humanities
Europese studies
Photographer: Calla Kemper
Visiting address
  • Kloveniersburgwal 48
  • Room number: D2.07C
Postal address
  • Postbus 1619
    1000 BP Amsterdam
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  • Regions, languages and religions

    Michael Kemper teaches about Russian foreign policy ("Putin's Russia") as well as about the history of modern Eastern Europe and Eurasia. Kemper's research deals with the history and present-day situation of Islam in Russia, Ukraine, Central Asia, and the Caucasus, as well as the history of Orientalism and Oriental Studies in Europe. He has a special interest in the interaction between languages and religions (Russian and Tatar; Orthodox Christianity and Islam), and in Oriental (Arabic, Turkic) sources from Eastern Europe/Eurasia. Kemper directed and co-directed several research projects funded by NWO and Volkswagen Foundation.

    Kemper is professor and chair of Eastern European Studies, one of the four chair groups of European Studies at UvA; between 2015 and 2018 he also served as head of the Department of History, European Studies and Religious Studies. From 2019 to 2022 he was director of the Amsterdam School of Regional, Transnational and European Studies (ARTES), a part of UvA's Amsterdam Institute of Humanity Studies.

    Kemper did his PhD (1997) and habilitation (2003) at the department of Oriental and Islamic studies of Bochum Ruhr University; there he also directed, in close collaboration with Prof. Stefan Reichmuth, a Junior Research Group on "Islamic Networks of Education (18th-20th Centuries)", supported by the Volkswagen Foundation. Between 1998 and 2007, this group produced seven dissertations on Islamic movements of education in India, Syria, Bosnia, and Turkey/the Ottoman Empire. Before coming to UvA Kemper worked as assistant professor for Central EurasianHistory at St. Lawrence University in Canton, NY.

    Kemper is member of the editorial board of Die Welt des Islams (Brill), Asiatische Studien/Études Asiatiques (De Gruyter) and other journals.

     

  • Publications

    2024

    • Albogachieva, M. S.-G., & Kemper, M. (2024). After Deportation: Chechen and Ingush Sufi Groups and their Zikr Rituals in Soviet Kazakhstan. Asiatische Studien, 78(2), 247-266. https://doi.org/10.1515/asia-2023-0031 [details]
    • Almazova, L., & Kemper, M. (2024). A Requiem for “Jadidism”? Debates on Islamic Education in Contemporary Tatarstan. Journal of Central Asian History, 3(2), 199-231.
    • Kemper, M. (2024). From Regional Islamic Reform to Global Anti-colonialism? Jamaladdin al-Afghani and Russia’s Muslims. Journal of Central Asian History, 3(2), 296-326.

    2022

    • Bobrovnikov, V. O., & Kemper, M. (2022). Customary law 4. The Northeast Caucasus. In K. Fleet, G. Krämer, D. Matringe, J. Nawas, & E. Rowson (Eds.), Encyclopaedia of Islam: Three (Vol. 2022-1). Article 26519 Brill. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1163/1573-3912_ei3_COM_26519 [details]
    • Kemper, M. (2022). Ijtihād in Putin’s Russia? Signature Fatwas from Moscow and Kazan. Journal of the economic and social history of the Orient, 65(7), 935-960. https://doi.org/10.1163/15685209-12341585 [details]
    • Kemper, M. (2022). Sufi Saint or Salafī Reformer? ʿAlī Tūntārī in Fakhreddinov's Tatar Lineage of Kalām Critique. In E. Tasar, A. J. Frank, & J. Eden (Eds.), From the Khan’s Oven: Studies on the History of Central Asian Religions in Honor of Devin DeWeese (pp. 258-283). (Handbook of Oriental studies ; Section eight Uralic and Central Asian Studies; Vol. 27). Brill. https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004471177_010 [details]
    • Kemper, M. (2022). The Nation as a Network: Rizaeddin Fakhretdinov’s Islamic Biographies. In M. Brolsma, A. Drace-Francis, K. Lajosi, E. Maessen, M. Rensen, J. Rock, Y. Rodríguez Pérez, & G. Snel (Eds.), Networks, Narratives and Nations: Transcultural Approaches to Cultural Nationalism in Modern Europe and Beyond (pp. 85-95). Amsterdam University Press. [details]

    2021

    • Kemper, M. (2021). Islam als Anker oder als Zentrifuge? Russlands Muftiate zwischen Moskau und den Regionen. In T. Grob, A. Hodel, & J. Miluška (Eds.), Geschichtete Identitäten: (Post-) Imperiales Erzählen und Identitätsbildung im östlichen Europa (pp. 347-370). Böhlau Verlag. https://doi.org/10.7788/9783412512255.347 [details]
    • Kemper, M., & Sibgatullina, G. (2021). Liberal Islamic Theology in Conservative Russia: Taufik Ibragim’s “Qurʾānic Humanism”. Die Welt des Islams, 61(3), 279–307. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1163/15700607-61020002 [details]

    2020

    • Kemper, M. (2020). Soglasheniia obshchin (ittifakat) i sborniki 'adata dagestanskikh selenii i konfederatsii XVIII-XIX vv. Kavkazskiĭ sbornik, 12 (44), 238-271.
    • Kemper, M., & Shikhaliev, S. (2020). Kunta Ḥājjī and the Stolen Horse. In P. Sartori, & D. Ross (Eds.), Sharīʻa in the Russian Empire: The Reach and Limits of Islamic Law in Central Eurasia, 1550-1917 (pp. 281-298). Edinburgh University Press. [details]
    • Kemper, M., & Shikhaliev, S. (2020). Kunta-Ḥājjī. In K. Fleet, G. Krämer, D. Matringe, J. Nawas, & E. Rowson (Eds.), Encyclopaedia of Islam: Three (Vol. 2020-1). Article 35731 Brill. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1163/1573-3912_ei3_COM_35731 [details]

    2019

    • Kemper, M. (2019). Religious political technology: Damir Mukhetdinov’s ‘Russian Islam’. Religion, State & Society, 47(2), 214-233. https://doi.org/10.1080/09637494.2019.1571331 [details]
    • Sibgatullina, G., & Kemper, M. (2019). The Imperial Paradox: Islamic Eurasianism in Contemporary Russia. In N. Friess, & K. Kaminskij (Eds.), Resignification of Borders: Eurasianism and the Russian World (pp. 97-124). (Ost-West-Express. Kultur und Übersetzung; Vol. 37). Frank & Timme. [details]

    2018

    2017

    2016

    • Kemper, M., & Shikhaliev, S. (2016). Islam and Political Violence in Post-Soviet Daghestan: Discursive Strategies of the Sufi Masters. Princeton papers: interdisciplinary journal of Middle Eastern studies, 17, 117-154. [details]
    • Kemper, M., & Shikhaliev, S. (2016). Islam and Political Violence in Post-Soviet Daghestan: Discursive Strategies of the Sufi Masters. In M. A. Reynolds (Ed.), Constellations of the Caucasus: empires, peoples, and faiths (pp. 117-154). Markus Wiener Publications. [details]

    2015

    2014

    • Almazova, L., & Kemper, M. (2014). A Requiem for “Jadidism”? Debates on Islamic Education in Contemporary Tatarstan. Journal of Central Asian History, 3(2), 199-231.
    • Kemper, M. (2014). Ijtihad into Philosophy: Islam as Cultural Heritage in Post-Stalinist Daghestan. Central Asian Survey, 33(3), 390-404. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1080/02634937.2014.942581 [details]

    2013

    • Bustanov, A. K., & Kemper, M. (2013). Valiulla Iakupov’s Tatar Islamic Traditionalism. Asiatische Studien, 67(3), 809-835. [details]
    • Kemper, M. (2013). Daghestan. In K. Fleet, G. Krämer, D. Matringe, J. Nawas, & E. Rowson (Eds.), Encyclopaedia of Islam: Three (Vol. 2013-1). Article 25775 Brill. https://doi.org/10.1163/1573-3912_ei3_COM_25775 [details]
    • Kemper, M. (2013). Sufizm kak sot͡siokulʹturnoe i͡avlenie. - §1: Sufiĭskie tradit͡sii v pervoĭ polovine XIX v. In R. Khakimov, & I. Zagidullin (Eds.), Istorii͡a tatar s drevneĭshikh vremen. - Tom 6: Formirovanie tatarskoĭ nat͡sii XIX-nachalo XX v. (pp. 372-382). Akademii͡a Nauk Respubliki Tatarstan, Institut Istorii im. Sh. Mardzhani. [details]
    • Kemper, M. (2013). Teologicheskie i islamovedcheskie debaty. In R. Khakimov, & I. Zagidullin (Eds.), Istorii͡a tatar s drevneĭshikh vremen. - Tom 6: Formirovanie tatarskoĭ nat͡sii XIX-nachalo XX v. (pp. 391-400). Akademii͡a Nauk Respubliki Tatarstan, Institut Istorii im. Sh. Mardzhani. [details]

    2012

    • Kemper, M. (2012). Chechnya. In K. Fleet, G. Krämer, D. Matringe, J. Nawas, & E. Rowson (Eds.), Encyclopaedia of Islam: Three (Vol. 2012-2). Article 24394 Brill. https://doi.org/10.1163/1573-3912_ei3_COM_24394 [details]
    • Shikhsaidov, A. R., Kemper, M., & Bustanov, A. K. (2012). Nadhīr al-Durgilī. Uslada umov v biografii͡akh dagestanskikh uchenykh: dagestanskie uchenye X-XX vv. I ikh sochinenii͡a = A journey of the minds through the biographies of the Islamic scholars of Daghestan: Dagestani scholars of the 10th-20th centuries and their works: pervod s arabskogo, kommentarii, faksimilʹ noe izdanie, ukazateli i bibliografii͡a podgotovleny. (Islam v Rossii i Evrazii). Izdatel'skij dom Mardzhani. [details]

    2011

    2010

    2009

    • Kemper, M. (2009). Ljucian Klimovič: der ideologische Bluthund der sowjetischen Islamkunde und Zentralasienliteratur. Asiatische Studien, 63(1), 93-133. [details]
    • Kemper, M. (2009). The Soviet discourse on the origin and class character of Islam, 1923-1933. Die Welt des Islams, 49(1), 1-48. https://doi.org/10.1163/157006008X364677 [details]

    2007

    • Kemper, M. (2007). 'The Changing Images of Jihad Leaders: Shamil and Abd al-Qadir in Daghestani and Algerian Historical Writing'. Nova Religio: Journal of Alternative and Emergent Religions, 11(2), 28-58. [details]

    2023

    • Kemper, M. (2023). Denunciation and Revenge: Riza Fakhreddinov on Īshmī Īshān. In K. Moser, & S. Tolino (Eds.), Wissenskulturen muslimischer Gesellschaften: Philosophische und islamwissenschaftliche Zugänge : Festschrift für Anke von Kügelgen (pp. 287-301). (Worlds of Islam – Welten des Islams – Mondes de l’Islam; Vol. 14). De Gruyter. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110767506-017 [details]

    2022

    • Bouma, A., & Kemper, M. (2022). Reevaluations: Introduction. In A. Bouma, & M. Kemper (Eds.), Socialism in One Room: Studies in Honor of Erik van Ree (pp. 1-9). (Pegasus Oost-Europese Studies; Vol. 36). Pegasus. [details]
    • Bouma, A., & Kemper, M. (Eds.) (2022). Socialism in One Room: Studies in honor of Erik van Ree. (Pegasus Oost-Europese Studies; Vol. 36). Pegasus. [details]
    • Kemper, M. (2022). Islam for the Atheist: a Soviet Tatar Dictionary of Islam and Its Reincarnation. In A. Bouma, & M. Kemper (Eds.), Socialism in One Room: Studies in Honor of Erik van Ree (pp. 191-215). (Pegasus Oost-Europese Studies; Vol. 36). Pegasus. [details]
    • Kemper, M. (2022). [Review of: E. Martín-Corrales (2021) Muslims in Spain, 1492-1814: Living and Negotiating in the Land of the Infidel]. Islam and Christian Muslim Relations, 33(3), 324-326. https://doi.org/10.1080/09596410.2022.2096356 [details]

    2021

    • Kemper, M. (2021). Interlocking Autobiographies: Dialogical Techniques in Fakhreddinov’s Āthār III. In Redkollegiia (Ed.), The Written and the Spoken in Central Asia : Mündlichkeit und Schriftlichkeit in Zentralasien : Festschrift for Ingeborg Baldauf (pp. 67-82). (Edition Tethys: Wissenschaft ; Vol. 4). Edition Tethys. https://doi.org/10.36201/tethys.science.4 [details]
    • Sibgatullina, G., & Kemper, M. (2021). Contesting Boundaries and Producing the Norm: Gender-Related Issues in Islamic Theory and Practice. Islamology, 11(1), 6-8. https://doi.org/10.24848/islmlg.11.1.01 [details]

    2019

    2018

    • Bustanov, A. K., & Kemper, M. (Eds.) (2018). Russia’s Islam and Orthodoxy beyond the Institutions: Languages of Conversion, Competition and Convergence. Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781351022422 [details]
    • Kemper, M. (2018). "Tradicionnyĭ Islam" Valiully Iakupova. In A. K. Alikberov, V. O. Bobrovnikov, & A. Bustanov (Eds.), Rossiĭskiĭ islam: Ocherki istoriĭ i kul'tury (pp. 372-396). Article 3 Institute of Oriental Studies, Russian Academy of Sciences. [details]
    • Kemper, M. (2018). Bogoslovskie i pravovye spory rossiĭskikh ulemov kontsa XVIII-serediny XIX v. In A. Alikberov, V. Bobrovnikov, & A. Bustanov (Eds.), Rossiĭskiĭ islam: Ocherki istoriĭ i kul'tury (pp. 132-208). Institut Vostokovedeniia RAN. [details]
    • Kemper, M. (2018). Islam kak obshchenatsional'noe kul'turnoe nasledie v poslestalinskom Dagestane: iz idzhtikhada k prosveshchenie. Istoriia, arkheologiia i etnografiia Kavkaza, 14(2), 127-143. https://doi.org/10.24411/2618-6772-2018-12010 [details]
    • Kemper, M. (2018). Ismail Gasprinskijs "Russisches Muslimentum" (1881). Das russische Muslimentum: Gedanken, Anmerkungen und Beobachtungen. Ismail Bej Gasprinskij. Frankfurter Zeitschrift für islamisch-theologische Studien, 4, 125-169. https://www.academia.edu/43203838/Kemper_2019_transl_Russkoe_musulmanstvo_1881_Ismail_Gasprinskii [details]
    • Kemper, M. (2018). Streit um die Orthodoxie in der Ukraine: Die Risiken der kirchenpolitischen Eskalation. Osteuropa, 68(8-9), 143-154. [details]
    • Kemper, M. (2018). Sufiĭskaia literatura Uralo-Povolzh"ia. 'Abd ar-Rakhim al-Bulgari (al-Utyz-Imiani, 1754-1835). In A. K. Alikberov, V. O. Bobrovnikov, & A. K. Bustanov (Eds.), Rossiĭskiĭ islam: Ocherki istoriĭ i kul'tury (pp. 209-268). Article 1 (Rossiia -- Islamskiĭ Mir). Institut Vostokovedeniia RAN. [details]
    • Kemper, M. (2018). [Review of: D. Brophy (2016) Uyghur Nation: Reform and Revolution on the Russia-China Frontier]. Islam and Christian Muslim Relations, 29(1), 120-122. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1080/09596410.2017.1412672 [details]

    2017

    • Bustanov, A., & Kemper, M. (2017). Valiulla Iakupov’s “Traditional Islam”. Vostok/Oriens, 2017(3), 123-139. [details]
    • Kemper, M. (2017). [Review of: M. Tuna (2015) Imperial Russia’s Muslims: Islam, Empire and European Modernity, 1788-1914]. Die Welt des Islams, 57(2), 258-260. https://doi.org/10.1163/15700607-00572p13 [details]
    • Kemper, M. (2017). [Review of: V.M. Dzevanovskii & I.M. Smilianskaia (2016) Podarok uchenym i uteshenie prosveshchennym: sbornik statei, posviashchennyi 90-letiiu professora Anny Arkad’evny Dolininoi / Tuḥfat al-ʿulamāʾ wa-salwat al-udabāʾ]. Arabica, 64(5-6), 788-790. https://doi.org/10.1163/15700585-12341468 [details]
    • Kemper, M. (2017). Ḥamzat-Bek al-Dāghistānī. In K. Fleet, G. Krämer, D. Matringe, J. Nawas, & E. Rowson (Eds.), Encyclopaedia of Islam: Three (Vol. 2017-2, pp. 104-105). Article 30286 Brill. https://doi.org/10.1163/1573-3912_ei3_COM_30286 [details]
    • Kemper, M., & Elger, R. (Eds.) (2017). The Piety of Learning: Islamic Studies in Honor of Stefan Reichmuth. (Islamic History and Civilization: Studies and texts; Vol. 147). Brill. https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004349841 [details]

    2016

    • Kemper, M. (2016). Introduction. In I. Y. Kratchkovsky (Ed.), Among Arabic Manuscripts: Memories of Libraries and Men (pp. 1-24). (Brill Classics in Islam; Vol. 8). Brill. https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004321359_002 [details]
    • Kemper, M. (2016). [Review of: E. Kane (2014) Russian Hajj: Empire and the Pilgrimage to Mecca]. Slavic Review, 75(4), 1035-1036. https://doi.org/10.5612/slavicreview.75.4.1035 [details]
    • Kemper, M. (2016). [Review of: J.H. Meyer (2014) Turks Across Empires: Marketing Muslim Identity in the Russian-Ottoman Borderlands, 1856-1914]. Journal of World History, 27(1), 168-171. https://doi.org/10.1353/jwh.2016.0078 [details]
    • Kemper, M., & Bustanov, A. K. (2016). Mirasizm v tatarskoĭ srede: transformatsiia islamskogo naslediia v tatarskoe prosvetitel'stvo. In M. B. Piotrovskiĭ, & A. K. Alikberov (Eds.), Ars Islamica: V chest' Stanislav Mikhaĭlovicha Prozorova (pp. 729-745). Nauka. [details]
    • Noack, C., & Kemper, M. (2016). Christian-Muslim Borderlands: From Eastern European Studies to Central Eurasian Studies. In K. Paramore (Ed.), Religion and orientalism in Asian studies (pp. 145-163). Bloomsbury Academic. https://doi.org/10.5040/9781474289764.0014 [details]

    2015

    • Kalinovsky, A. M., & Kemper, M. (2015). Introduction: Interlocking Orientologies in the Cold War Era. In M. Kemper, & A. M. Kalinovsky (Eds.), Reassessing Orientalism: Interlocking Orientologies during the Cold War (pp. 1-15). (Routledge Studies in the History of Russia and Eastern Europe; No. 23). Routledge. [details]
    • Kemper, M. (2015). Propaganda for the East, Scholarship for the West: Soviet Strategies at the 1960 International Congress of Orientalists in Moscow. In M. Kemper, & A. M. Kalinovsky (Eds.), Reassessing Orientalism: Interlocking Orientologies during the Cold War (pp. 170-210). (Routledge Studies in the History of Russia and Eastern Europe; No. 23). Routledge. [details]
    • Kemper, M. (2015). Rukopisi ob"ediniaiushchie vostok i zapad: M.A. Usmanov i zadachi vostokovedeniia. In D. M. Usmanova, D. A. Mustafina, & M. Kemper (Eds.), Tiurko-musul'manskiǐ mir: identichnost', nasledie i perspektivy izucheniia: Sbornik stateǐ (pp. 7-28). Izdatel'stvo Kazanskogo universiteta. [details]
    • Kemper, M. (2015). Russkiǐ︡ i︠a︡zyk islama: fenomen perekli︠u︡chenii︠a︡ koda. In S. R. Kashaf (Ed.), Reformy obrazovanii︠a︡ musulʹman Evrazii ot Khusaina Faizkhanova do Ismaila Gasprinskogo: istoricheskiĭ opyt i sovremennai︠a︡ aktualʹnostʹ: materialy I︠U︡bileĭnoĭ X Vserossiĭskoĭ nauchno-prakticheskoĭ konferent︠s︡ii s mezhdunarodnym uchastiem "Faizkhanovskie chtenii︠a︡", Moskva, 12 dekabri︠a︡ 2014 g. (pp. 41-51). ID Medina. [details]
    • Kemper, M., & Kalinovsky, A. M. (2015). Reassessing Orientalism: Interlocking Orientologies during the Cold War. (Routledge Studies in the History of Russia and Eastern Europe; Vol. 23). Routledge. [details]
    • Usmanova, D. M., Mustafina, D. A., & Kemper, M. (Eds.) (2015). Tiurko-musulmanskiĭ mir: identichnost', nasledie i perspektivy izucheniia: Sbornik statey : k 80-letiiu professora M.A. Usmanova. Kazan: Izdatel'stvo Kazanskogo universiteta. [details]

    2014

    • Kemper, M. (2014). How to Build a Sufi Empire? The Strategies of the Daghestani Shaykh Said-Afandi. In D. V. Brilev (Ed.), Islam v mul'tikul'turnom mire. Musul'manskie dvizhenii︠a︡ i mekhanizmy vosproizvodstva ideologii islama v sovremennom informatsionnom prostranstve (pp. 222-232). Kazanskiǐ universitet. [details]

    2013

    • Bustanov, A. K., & Kemper, M. (2013). The Russian Orthodox and Islamic Languages in the Russian Federation. Slavica Tergestina, 15, 258-277. http://slavica-ter.org/index.php?id=issue&sid=307 [details]
    • Kemper, M. (2013). Araboiazychnaia etnografiia adata po russkomu zakazu? In A. R. Shikhsaidov (Ed.), Dagestanskie sviatyni. - Kniga 3 (pp. 175-190). Epokha. [details]
    • Kemper, M. (2013). The Orthodox and Islamic Languages in the Russian Federation. In R. A. Nabiev (Ed.), Sot︠s︡iokul'turnyĭ potent︠s︡ial mezhkonfessional'nogo dialoga: materialy Mezhdunarodnoĭ nauchnoĭ konferent︠s︡ii, Kazan', 23-24 mai︠a︡ 2013 g. = Sociocultural potential of interconfessional dialogue (pp. 5-14). Kazanskiĭ gosudarstvennyĭ universitet. [details]
    • Motika, R., Kemper, M., & von Kügelgen, A. (2013). Repression, Anpassung, Neuorientierung: Studien zum Islam in der Sowjetunion und dem postsowjetischen Raum, ed. by Raoul Motika, Michael Kemper, Anke von Kügelgen. (Kaukasienstudien; No. 12). Wiesbaden: Reichert. [details]

    2012

    • Bustanov, A. K., & Kemper, M. (2012). From Mirasism to Euro-Islam: The Translation of Islamic Legal Debates into Tatar Secular Cultural Heritage. In A. K. Bustanov, & M. Kemper (Eds.), Islamic authority and the Russian language: studies on texts from European Russia, the North Caucasus and West Siberia (pp. 29-53). (Pegasus Oost-Europese studies; No. 19). Pegasus. [details]
    • Kemper, M. (2012). Comparative Conclusion: "Islamic Russian" as a New Sociolect? In A. K. Bustanov, & M. Kemper (Eds.), Islamic authority and the Russian language: studies on texts from European Russia, the North Caucasus and West Siberia (pp. 403-416). (Pegasus Oost-Europese studies; No. 19). Pegasus. [details]
    • Kemper, M. (2012). Jihadism: The Discourse of the Caucasus Emirate. In A. K. Bustanov, & M. Kemper (Eds.), Islamic authority and the Russian language: studies on texts from European Russia, the North Caucasus and West Siberia (pp. 265-293). (Pegasus Oost-Europese studies; No. 19). Pegasus. [details]
    • Kemper, M. (2012). Mufti Ravil' Gainutdin: The Translation of Islam into a Language of Patriotism and Humanism. In A. K. Bustanov, & M. Kemper (Eds.), Islamic authority and the Russian language: studies on texts from European Russia, the North Caucasus and West Siberia (pp. 105-141). (Pegasus Oost-Europese studies; No. 19). Pegasus. [details]
    • Kemper, M. (2012). Shii Islam for the Russian Radical Youth: Anastasiia (Fatima) Ezhova's "Khomeinism". In A. K. Bustanov, & M. Kemper (Eds.), Islamic authority and the Russian language: studies on texts from European Russia, the North Caucasus and West Siberia (pp. 297-343). (Pegasus Oost-Europese studies; No. 19). Pegasus. [details]
    • Kemper, M. (2012). The Cracks in Civilizations: The Dutch Public Discourse on Humanism and Islam. In S. Reichmuth, J. Rüsen, & A. Sarhan (Eds.), Humanism and Muslim culture: historical heritage and contemporary challenges (pp. 163-177). (Reflections on (In)humanity; No. 2). Göttingen: V&R unipress. [details]
    • Kemper, M. (2012). The Discourse of Said-Afandi, Daghestan's Foremost Sufi Master. In A. K. Bustanov, & M. Kemper (Eds.), Islamic authority and the Russian language: studies on texts from European Russia, the North Caucasus and West Siberia (pp. 167-217). (Pegasus Oost-Europese studies; No. 19). Pegasus. [details]
    • Kemper, M., & Bustanov, A. K. (2012). Introduction: Voices of Islam in Russian. In A. K. Bustanov, & M. Kemper (Eds.), Islamic authority and the Russian language: studies on texts from European Russia, the North Caucasus and West Siberia (pp. 7-26). (Pegasus Oost-Europese studies; No. 19). Pegasus. [details]
    • Kemper, M., & Shikhaliev, S. (2012). Administrative Islam: Two Soviet Fatwas from the North Caucasus. In A. K. Bustanov, & M. Kemper (Eds.), Islamic authority and the Russian language: studies on texts from European Russia, the North Caucasus and West Siberia (pp. 55-102). (Pegasus Oost-Europese studies; No. 19). Pegasus. [details]
    • Kemper, M., & Shikhaliev, S. S. (2012). Dagestanskoe musul'manskoe reformatorstvo pervoi treti XX veka kak raznovidnost’ dzhadidizma. In GM-R. Orazaev (Ed.), Abusuf"ian Akaev: Epokha, zhizn’, deiatel’nost’ (pp. 52-58). (Zhizn zamechatelnykh dagestantsev). Dagestanskoe knizhnoe izdatel'stvo. [details]

    2011

    • Jansen, H. E., & Kemper, M. (2011). Hijacking Islam: the search for a new Soviet interpretation of political Islam in 1980. In M. Kemper, & S. Conermann (Eds.), The heritage of Soviet Oriental studies (pp. 124-144). (Routledge contemporary Russia and Eastern Europe series; No. 25). Routledge. [details]
    • Kemper, M. (2011). Introduction: integrating Soviet Oriental studies. In M. Kemper, & S. Conermann (Eds.), The heritage of Soviet Oriental studies (pp. 1-25). (Routledge contemporary Russia and Eastern Europe series; No. 25). Routledge. [details]
    • Kemper, M. (2011). Islam in Russia: what lessons for Europe? In A. Mustafin (Ed.), Rossija i islamskij mir: istorija i perspektiva civilizacionnogo vzaimodejstvija: meždunarodnaja naučno-praktičeskaja konferencija, posvjaščennaja 120-letiju Karima Chakimova: 24-26 marta 2011 goda: sbornik statej i materialov (pp. 77-81). Vagant. [details]
    • Kemper, M. (2011). Sufi brotherhoods in the North Caucasus from a network studies perspective. In M. S. Albogačieva (Ed.), Islam v Rossii i za ee predelami: istorija, obščestvo, kul’tura: sbornik materialov mežregional’noj naučnoj konferencii, posvjaščennoi 100-letiju so dnja končiny vydajuščegosja religioznogo dejatelja šecha Batal-chadži Belcharoeva: 22-23 oktjabrja 2011 g. (pp. 140-144). Magas. [details]
    • Kemper, M., & Conermann, S. (2011). The heritage of Soviet Oriental studies. (Routledge contemporary Russia and Eastern Europe series; No. 25). London: Routledge. [details]

    2010

    • Kemper, M. (2010). An island of Classical Arabic in the Caucasus: Daghestan. In F. Companjen, L. Marácz, & L. Versteegh (Eds.), Exploring the Caucasus in the 21st century: essays on culture, history and politics in a dynamic context (pp. 63-89). (Amsterdam contributions). Pallas. [details]
    • Kemper, M. (2010). Šariatskij diskurs imamata v Dagestane pervoj poloviny XIX v. In A. K. Alikberov, & V. O. Bobrovnikov (Eds.), Dagestan i musulʹmanskij Vostok: sbornik statej = Daghestan and the Muslim East: studies on history and sources of Islam in honor of Amri Shikhsaidov (pp. 107-124). (Islam v Rossii i Evrazii = Islam in Russia and Eurasia). Izdatel'skij Dom Mardžani. [details]
    • Kemper, M., Motika, R., & Reichmuth, S. (2010). Islamic education in the Soviet Union and its successor states. (Central Asian studies series). Routledge. [details]
    • Kemper, M., Motika, R., & Reichmuth, S. (2010). Introduction. In M. Kemper, R. Motika, & S. Reichmuth (Eds.), Islamic education in the Soviet Union and its successor states (pp. 1-20). (Central Asian studies series). Routledge. [details]
    • Kemper, M., Tagirova, N. A., & Šichsaidov, A. R. (2010). Biblioteka imama Šamilja v Prinstone. In A. K. Alikberov, & V. O. Bobrovnikov (Eds.), Dagestan i musulʹmanskij Vostok: sbornik statej = Daghestan and the Muslim East: studies on history and sources of Islam in honor of Amri Shikhsaidov (pp. 259-272). (Islam v Rossii i Evrazii = Islam in Russia and Eurasia). Izdatel'skij Dom Mardžani. [details]

    2009

    • Alekseev, I. L., Bobrovnikov, V. O., Basharin, P. V., Gimadeev, I. F., Shamsutov, R. I., Ermakova, E. S., Zaĭtsev, I. V., & Kemper, M. (Eds.) (2009). Tatarskiĭ shamailʹ: slovo i obraz : katalog vystavki . Izdatelʹskiĭ dom Mardzhani. [details]
    • Kemper, M. (2009). Ghazi Muhammad’s treatise against Daghestani customary law. In M. Gammer (Ed.), Islam and sufism in Daghestan (pp. 85-100). (Suomalaisen Tiedeakatemian toimituksia. Humaniora; No. 352). Academia Scientiarum Fennica. [details]
    • Kemper, M. (2009). Shamsaddin al-Turkmani al-Dhahabi as a popularizer of Arabic Sciences in the Muslim World. In A. A. Ashirov (Ed.), Muhammed Gaymaz Turkmen - Famous Scientist of the Orient (pp. 167). MIRAS Institute. [details]

    2008

    • Kemper, M. (2008). Sufii i uchenye v Tatarstane i Bashkortostane, 1789-1889: Islamskii diskurs pod russkim gospodstvom. Kazan' (Russian Federation): Idel'-Press. [details]
    • Kemper, M. (2008). How to take the Muslim peripheries seriously in the writing of imperial history? [Review of: V.O. Bobrovnikov, I.L. Babich. Severnyj Kavkaz v sostave Rossijskoj Imperii; S.N. Abashin, e.a. (2008) Tsentral’naia Aziia v sostave Rossiiskoi Imperii]. Ab Imperio, 2008(4), 472-482. http://abimperio.net/cgi-bin/aishow.pl?state=showa&idart=2298&idlang=1&Code= [details]

    2007

    • Kemper, M. (2007). Abusagyt Abylhaýyrin sufizmin we filosofiyanyn ösüşine goşandy = The Place of Abusagyt Abylhayir in the Development of Sufism and Philosophy. In M. B. Gurbanow (Ed.), Abusagyt Abylhaýyir - Gündogaryn Beyik Akyldary (pp. 51/249-250). Ashgabat: Türkmenistanyn Metbugat Merkezi. [details]
    • Kemper, M. (2007). Adat against Shari'a: Russian Approaches towards Daghestani Customary Law in the 19th Century. In B. Balci, & R. Motika (Eds.), Religion et politique dans le Caucase post soviétique (pp. 97-119). Paris: Maisonneuve Larose. [details]
    • Kemper, M. (2007). Caucasus. In M. Beller, & J. Leerssen (Eds.), Imagology: the cultural construction and literary representation of national characters: a critical survey (pp. 117-121). (Studia imagologica; No. 13). Amsterdam: Rodopi. [details]

    2024

    2023

    • Babadjanov, B., & Kemper, M. (2023). Sufism and Anti-Sufism in the Uzbek Journal al-Islah, 1915-1918: by Bakhtiyar Babadhanov (Taschkent). Translated from the Russian by Michael Kemper. In K. Moser, & S. Tolino (Eds.), Wissenskulturen Muslimishcer Gesellschaften: Philosophische und islamwissenschaftliche Zugänge, eds. Kata Moser and Serena Tolino (pp. 269-286). De Gruyter.
    • Kemper, M. (2023). Khalidiyya leh Rusiyya va Qavqaz: The Khalidiyya in Russia and the Caucasus. Dr. Ezzaddin Cultural Center.
    • Kemper, M. (Author), & Muratova, E. (Author). (2023). Eurasian Knot Podcast with Elmira Muratova and Michael Kemper: Islam, Repression and Memory, moderator Sean Guillory. Web publication or website, Caucasian Knot. https://doi.org/euraknot.org/2023/10/21/islam-repression-and-memory/
    • Kemper, M. (Author). (2023). Islam in Russland. Web publication or website, bpb: Bundeszentrale für politische Bildung. https://bpb.de/themen/europa/russland/521942/islam-in-russland/
    • Kemper, M., & Muminov, A. (2023). Holy Heroes and Their Descendants. Features of Islam in the Syr-Darya Basin: by Ashirbek Muminov. Translated from the Russian by Michael Kemper. In K. Moser, & S. Tolino (Eds.), Wissenskulturen muslimishcer Gesellschaften.: Philosophische und islamwissenschaftliche Zugänge. (pp. 303-314). (Worlds of Islam). De Gruyter.

    2022

    • Kemper, M. (2022). 俄国东方主义 Eguó dōngfāng zhǔyì: [Russia and Orientalism]. In 欧亚时空中的中国与世界ōu yǎ shíkōng Zhōngguó yǔ shìjiè: China and the World in the Eurasian Spatio-Temporal Dimension (pp. 226-255). Social Sciences Literature Publishing House 社会科学文献出版社.

    2021

    • Kemper, M. (2021). [Review of: D. Ross (2020) Tatar Empire: Kazan’s Muslims and the Making of Imperial Russia]. Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, 84(1), 170-172. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0041977X21000203 [details]
    • Kemper, M. (2021). [Review of: N. Spannaus (2019) Preserving Islamic Tradition: Abū Naṣr Qūrsāwī and the Beginnings of Modern Reformism]. Journal of Islamic Studies, 32(1), 137-142. https://doi.org/10.1093/jis/etaa042 [details]

    2019

    2018

    2016

    • Alekseev, I. L., Bobrovnikov, V., Bustanov, A. K., & Kemper, M. (2016). Obituary: Dmitriy Yur'evich Arapov (1943-2015). Caucasus Survey, 4(1), 112-113. https://doi.org/10.1080/23761199.2016.1140983 [details]
    • Bustanov, A. K., & Kemper, M. (2016). Islam po-russki: Analiz sovremennoi islamskoi literatury v Rossii: Uchebnoe posobie. Prezidentskaia biblioteka. [details]
    • Kemper, M. (2016). [Review of: A. Pflitsch (2012) Zweierlei Barberei. Überlegungen zu Kultur, Moderne und Authentizität im Dreieck zwischen Europa, Russland und arabischem Nahen Osten]. Die Welt des Islams, 56(2), 270-271. https://doi.org/10.1163/15700607-00562p09 [details]

    2015

    2011

    • Kemper, M. (2011). The Russian Empire in Asia [Review of: D. Schimmelpenninck van der Oye (2010) Russian orientalism: Asia in the Russian mind from Peter the Great to the emigration]. Tijdschrift voor Geschiedenis, 124(1), 116-117. [details]
    • Kemper, M. (2011). [Review of: R.B. Ware, E. Kisriev (2010) Dagestan: Russian hegemony and Islamic resistance in the North Caucasus]. Slavic Review, 70(1), 227-228. http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.5612/slavicreview.70.1.0227 [details]

    2010

    • Kemper, M. (2010). [Review of: C. Hunner-Kreisel (2008) Erziehung zum "wahren" Muslim: islamische Bildung in den Institutionen Aserbaidschans]. Central Eurasian Reader, 2, 336-338. [details]
    • Kemper, M. (2010). [Review of: D. Wilkowsky (2009) Arabisch-islamische Organisationen in Kasachstan: exogener Einfluss auf die islamische Erneuerung 1991-2007]. Central Eurasian Reader, 2, 408-410. [details]
    • Kemper, M. (2010). [Review of: S. Akiner (2009) Religious language of a Belarusian Tatar Kitab: a cultural monument of islam in Europe: with a latin-script transliteration of the British Library Tatar Belarusian Kitab (OR 13020) on CD-ROM]. Journal of the American Oriental Society, 130(3), 492. http://www.jstor.org/stable/23044979 [details]
    • Kemper, M. (2010). [Review of: S.M. Ischakov (2007) Pervaja russkaja revoljucija i musulʹmane Rossijskoj imperii]. Slavic Review, 69(2), 504-505. http://www.jstor.org/stable/25677152 [details]
    • Kemper, M. (2010). [Review of: V.V. Naumkin, et al. (2008) Neizvestnye stranicy otečestvennogo vostokovedenija. - Vyp. 3]. Central Eurasian Reader, 2, 23-25. [details]

    2009

    • Kemper, M. (2009). Studying Islam in the Soviet Union. (Inaugural lecture; No. 321). Vossiuspers UvA. [details]
    • Kemper, M. (2009). [Review of: A. Khalid (2007) Islam after communism: religion and politics in Central Asia; S.A. Dudoignon (2004) Devout societies vs. impious states? Transmitting Islamic learning in Russia, Central Asia and China, through the twentieth century; A.J. Frank (2007) Popular Islamic literature in Kazakhstan: an annotated bibliography]. Die Welt des Islams, 49(2), 260-266. https://doi.org/10.1163/157006008X313781 [details]
    • Kemper, M. (2009). [Review of: C. King (2008) The ghost of freedom: a history of the Caucasus]. Ab Imperio, 2009(1). http://abimperio.net/cgi-bin/aishow.pl?state=showa&idart=2400&idlang=1&Code= [details]

    2008

    • Kemper, M. (2008). [Review of: G.M. Hahn (2007) Russia’s Islamic threat]. Central Eurasian Reader, 1, 556-559. [details]
    • Kemper, M. (2008). [Review of: M. Bilz (2007) Tatarstan in der Transformation: Nationaler Diskurs und Politische Praxis, 1988-1994]. Slavic Review, 67(4), 1045-1046. http://www.jstor.org/stable/27653084 [details]
    • Kemper, M. (2008). [Review of: M. Gammer (2008) Ethno-nationalism, Islam and the state in the Caucasus : post-Soviet disorder]. Journal of Islamic Studies, 19(3), 423-426. https://doi.org/10.1093/jis/etn041 [details]
    • Kemper, M. (2008). [Review of: M.K. Baskhanov (2005) Ocherki istorii russkogo voennogo vostokovedeniia]. Central Eurasian Reader, 1, 26-29. [details]
    • Kemper, M. (2008). [Review of: R.S. Sharafutdinova (2001) Araboiazychnye dokumenty epokhi Shamilia]. Central Eurasian Reader, 1, 24-25. [details]
    • Kemper, M. (2008). [Review of: U. Tomohiko (2007) Empire, islam, and politics in Central Eurasia]. Orientalistische Literaturzeitung, 103(4/5), 651-654. https://doi.org/10.1524/olzg.2008.0043 [details]

    2007

    • Kemper, M. (2007). 'Putinism' and the Limits of European Integration. EuroVisie, 2(4), 10-11. [details]
    • Kemper, M. (2007). [Review of: G.M. Hahn (2007) Russia's Islamic Threat]. Prospekt, 5, 24-26. [details]
    • Kemper, M. (2007). [Review of: R.D. Crews (2006) For Prophet and Tsar : Islam and Empire in Russia and Central Asia]. Die Welt des Islams, 47(1), 126-129. [details]

    2024

    • Bouma, J. M. J., & Kemper, M. (2024). Hoe Oekraïne deel van Europa werd. Liberale Reflecties, 65(1), 16-26.

    2022

    2021

    2014

    • Kemper, M. (2014). Mirkasym Usmanov - tatarin s 'prusskim kharakterom'. In J. Mingnullin (Ed.), Mirkasyim Gosmanov: Tarikhi-biografik, fănni-dokumental' jyentyk (pp. 666-674). (Shăkheslărebez). Kazan: Jyen. [details]

    2013

    • Kemper, M. (2013). Tavarikh-i Bulgariĭa. In D. Z. Khaĭretdinov (Ed.), Islam v povolzh'e: entsiklopedicheskiĭ slovar' (pp. 304-305). (Islam v Rossiĭskoĭ Federatsii; No. 6). ID Medina. [details]
    • Kemper, M. (2013). Teologicheskiĭ diskurs musul'man Povolzh'ia v XIX v. In D. Z. Khaĭretdinov (Ed.), Islam v Povolzh'e: entsiklopedicheskiĭ slovar' (pp. 316-319). (Islam v Rossiĭskoĭ federatsii; No. 6). ID Medina. [details]

    2008

    • Kemper, M. (2008). Ausprägungen des Islams im Kaukasus. In B. Chiari (Ed.), Kaukasus (pp. 203-219). (Wegweiser zur Geschichte). Ferdinand Schöning. [details]

    2023

    • Kemper, M. (2023). “Between imperial Jadidism and global Salafism: Fakhreddinov on Jamaladdin al-Afghani”. Paper presented at Tatar Diaspora in Modern Eurasia: Connection, Transformation, Revolution, Tokyo, Japan.

    Journal editor

    • Kemper, M. (editor) & Usmanova, D. M. (editor) (2024). Journal of Central Asian History (Journal).
    • Sibgatullina, G. (editor) & Kemper, M. (editor) (2021). Islamology (Journal). https://islamology.in/journal/issue/view/18
    • Kemper, M. (editor) (2018-2021). RUDN Journal of Russian History (Journal).
    • Kemper, M. (reviewer) (2016-2026). Die Welt des Islams (Journal).
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