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MORIMOTO Kazuo

MORIMOTO Kazuo

Professor
Department of West Asian Studies,
Institute for Advanced Studies on Asia
morikazu[at]
Research theme: Social History of Islamic Iran

Socio-Religious History of Muslim Societies

Research Topics



He received his B.A.
(1992), M.A. (1995), and Ph.D. (2004) from the University
of Tokyo. His appointments have been: research associate,
Institute of Oriental Culture (1996-2001); associate professor,
Hokkaido University (2001-2004); and associate professor,
IOC (2004-). His main interest lies in the role and position
of sayyid/sharīfs — kinsfolk of the Prophet
Muḥammad — in Muslim societies. His other areas of
interest include cultural aspects of the urban/local elite
in pre-Mongol Iran and history of Shi‘ism. His main
publications in English are as follows: “The Notebook
of a Sayyid/Sharīf Genealogist: Ms. British
Library Or. 1406,” forthcoming in the Festschrift dedicated
to B. Scarcia Amoretti (Rome, 2008); “Putting the Lubāb
al-Ansāb in Context: Sayyid s and Naqīb s
in Late Saljuq Khurasan,” Studia Iranica 36-2,
2007; “Toward the Formation of Sayyido-Sharifology:
Questioning Accepted Fact,” The Journal of Sophia
Asian Studies 22, 2004; “A Preliminary Study
on the Diffusion of the Niq āba al-Ṭālibīyīn :
Towards an Understanding of the Early Dispersal of Sayyid s,” in
Hidemitsu Kuroki (ed.), The Influence of Human Mobility
in Muslim Societies , London, New York, Bahrain, 2003; “The
Formation and Development of the Science of Talibid Genealogies
in the 10th & 11th Century Middle East,” Oriente
Moderno n.s. 18, 1999. Visit http://homepage3.nifty.com/morikazu/english.htm for
further information.
The Memoirs of Institute of Oriental Culture
and The Monograph Series of the Institute of Oriental Culture
are abbreviated in this section as MIOC and MSIOC.

Research activities

Edited Books
  • Morimoto, Kazuo, and Sajjad Rizvi, eds. Knowldge and Power in Muslim Societies: Approaches in Intellectual History: Berlin: Gerlach Press, 2023.6.
  • Morimoto, Kazuo, ed. “Kingship and Political Legitimacy in the Persianate World,” symposium, Journal of Persianate Studies 12-2 (2020). Vol. 12-2 of The: Brill, 2020.1.
  • Morimoto, Kazuo, ed. Sayyids and Sharifs in Muslim Societies: Living Links to the Prophet: Abingdon, Oxon: Routledge, 2012.7.
  • Morimoto, Kazuo, ed. “Shi’i Studies,” special issue, Orient: Reports of the Society for Near Eastern Studies in Japan. Vol. 44 of The: The Society for Near Eastern Studies in Japan, 2009.3. [Link]
Articles and Book Chapters
  • Morimoto, Kazuo. “A Jaʿfarid Zaynabid Genealogy from Thirteenth-Century Egypt: ʿUrbān Uprising, Najafī Connection, and the Representation of the Twelve Imams.” Knowledge and Power in Muslim Societies: Approaches in Intellectual History. Edited by Kazuo Morimoto, and Sajjad Rizvi: Berlin: Gerlach Press, 2023: 221-260.
  • Rizvi, Sajjad, and Kazuo Morimoto. “Introduction: Diversifying the Intellectual History of Islam and Muslim Cultures.” Knowledge and Power in Muslim Societies: Approaches in Intellectual History. Edited by Kazuo Morimoto, and Sajjad Rizvi: Berlin: Gerlach Press, 2023: 1-12.
  • Kazu’u Murimutu,. “Muqaddama.” 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 (Pazhūhishī pīrāmūn-i rawābiṭ-i khārijī-yi Īrān dar rūzgār-i Ṣafawī). Edited by Manṣūr Ṣifatgul: Tokyo: Markaz-i Pazhuhish wa Ittila`-rasani dar Mutali`at-i Asiyayi, Mu’assisa-yi Mutali`at-i Pishrafta-yi Asiya, Danishgah-i Tukyu, 2023: 21-22.
  • Kazu’u Murimutu,. “Muqaddama.” Du`aguyan wa diwaniyan, qarya-yi Mirmit wa il-i `Abdolmaleki-yi Mazandaran dar asnad-i dawra-yi Qajar. Edited by Hashim Rajabzada, and Kinji Eura: Tokyo: Markaz-i Pazhuhish wa Ittila`-rasani dar Mutali`at-i Asiyayi, Mu’assisa-yi Mutali`at-i Pishrafta-yi Asiya, Danishgah-i Tukyu, 2022: 5-6.
  • Kazu’u Murimutu,. “Muqaddama.” Bazar wa dukkan wa karwansara dar asnad-i dawra-yi Qajar. Edited by Hashim Rajabzada, and Kinji Eura: Tokyo: Markaz-i Pazhuhish wa Ittila`-rasani dar Mutali`at-i Asiyayi, Mu’assisa-yi Mutali`at-i Pishrafta-yi Asiya, Danishgah-i Tukyu, 2021: 5.
  • Morimoto, Kazuo. “Sayyid-ness beyond the Borders of South Asia.”Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society 30, no. 3 2020.8: 505-511.
  • Kazu’u Murimutu,. “Muqaddama.” Dawazda fasl-i bagh wa bustan wa dirakht dar asnad-i dawra-yi Qajar. Edited by Hashim Rajabzada, and Kinji Eura: Tokyo: Markaz-i Pazhuhish wa Ittila`-rasani dar Mutali`at-i Asiyayi, Mu’assisa-yi Mutali`at-i Pishrafta-yi Asiya, Danishgah-i Tukyu, 2020: 5.
  • Morimoto, Kazuo. “Introduction: Kingship and Political Legitimacy in the Persianate World.”Journal of Persianate Studies 12, no. 2 2020.1: 175-180.
  • Kazu’u Murimutu,. “Muqaddama.” 88 sanad-i ab-i kishawarzi-yi dawra-yi Qajar. Edited by Hashim Rajabzada, and Kinji Eura: Tokyo: Markaz-i Pazhuhish wa Ittila`-rasani dar Mutali`at-i Asiyayi, Mu’assisa-yi Mutali`at-i Pishrafta-yi Asiya, Danishgah-i Tukyu, 2019: 5.
  • Morimoto, Kazuo. “Sayyido-Sharifology: Personal and Collective Endeavors to Define a New Research Field.” Islamic Studies and the Study of Sufism in Academia: Rethinking Methodologies. Edited by Yasushi Tonaga, and Chiaki Fujii: Kyoto: Kenan Rifai Center for Sufi Studies, Kyoto University, 2019: 47-54.
  • Morimoto, Kazuo. “A Mid-Fifteenth-Century Attestation of the Muhammad Shahi Ismaʿilis: Between Khudawand Muhammad and Shah Tahir Dakani.”Orient: Journal of the Society of Near Eastern Studies in Japan 53 2018.9: 95-107.
  • Kazu’u Murimutu,. “Muqaddama.” Asnad-i Ijtima`i wa qada’i-yi dawra-i QajarKazuo Morimoto Hashem Rajabzadeh, Kinji Eura (with the cooperation of) a preface by, Ganjina-i Asnad-i Farsi, 5: Tokyo: Markaz-i Pazhuhish wa Ittila`-rasani dar Mutali`at-i Asiyayi, Mu’assasa-i Mutali`at-i Pishrafta-i Asiya, Danishgah-i Tukyu, 2018: 7.
  • Kazu’u Murimutu,. “Muqaddama.” Asnad-i ijtima`i wa qada’i-yi dawra-yi Qajar. Edited by Hashim Rajabzada, and Kinji Eura: Tokyo: Markaz-i Pazhuhish wa Ittila`-rasani dar Mutali`at-i Asiyayi, Mu’assisa-yi Mutali`at-i Pishrafta-yi Asiya, Danishgah-i Tukyu, 2018: 7.
  • Kazu’u Murimutu,. “Muqaddama.” Asnad-i huquqi wa qada’i wa asnad-i `ibadi wa a’ini-yi dawra-i QajarKazuo Morimoto Hashem Rajabzadeh, Kinji Eura (with the cooperation of) a preface by, Ganjina-i Asnad-i Farsi, 4: Tokyo: Markaz-i Pazhuhish wa Ittila`-rasani dar Mutali`at-i Asiyayi, Mu’assasa-i Mutali`at-i Pishrafta-i Asiya, Danishgah-i Tukyu, 2017: 7-8.
  • Morimoto, Kazuo. “Sayyid Ibn ʿAbd al-Ḥamīd: An Iraqi Shiʿi Genealogist at the Court of Özbek Khan.”JESHO (Journal of the Economic and Social History of the Orient) 59, no. 5 2016.11: 661-694.
  • Morimoto, Kazuo. “An Enigmatic Genealogical Chart of the Timurids: A Testimony to the Dynasty’s Claim to Yasavi-`Alid Legitimacy>?”Oriens 44, no. 1/2 2016.6: 145-178. [Link]
  • Morimoto, Kazuo. “Keeping the Prophet’s Family Alive: Profile of a Genealogical Discipline.” Genealogy and Knowledge in Muslim Societies: Understanding the Past. Edited by Sarah Bowen Savant, and Helena de Felipe: Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2014: 11-23.
  • Morimoto, Kazuo. “The Prophet’s Family as the Perennial Source of Saintly Scholars: Al-Samhudi on ‘Ilm and Nasab.” Family Portraits with Saints: Hagiography, Sanctity, and Family in the Muslim World. Edited by Catherine Mayeur-Jaouen, and Alexandre Papas: Berlin: Klaus Schwarz Verlag and École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, 2014: 106-124.
  • `Abd Allah b. Muhammad Ibn Katila Husayni; Kazuo Morimoto, ed.”Bayan al-Ad`iya’.” Jashn-namah-i Ustad Sayyid Ahmad Ishkiwari. Edited by Rasul Ja`fariyan: Tehran: Nashr-i `Ilm, Qom: Kitabkhanah-i Takhassusi-i Tarikh-i Islam wa Iran and [Tehran:] Khanah-i Kitab-i Tihran, 2013: 959-1004.
  • Morimoto, Kazuo. “The Hui People and the Muslim World: A Study of an Arabic Inscription Text in Henan Province.”East Asia in the Context of World/Global History (2012.12): 391-392.
  • Morimoto, Kazuo. “Introduction.” Sayyids and Sharifs in Muslim Societies: The Living Links to the Prophet. Edited by Kazuo Morimoto: London and New York: Routledge, 2012: 1-12.
  • Morimoto, Kazuo. “How to Behave toward Sayyids and Sharīfs: A Trans-sectarian Tradition of Dream Accounts.” Sayyids and Sharifs in Muslim Societies: The Living Links to the Prophet. Edited by Kazuo Morimoto: London and New York: Routledge, 2012: 15-36.
  • Khakpur, Kazuo Morimoto; `Ali trans.”Awwalin Neshan az Siyadat-i Safawiyan dar Kutub-i Ansab: Madraki Jadid barayi Iddi`a-yi pish-Safawi-yi Siyadat-i Safawiyan.”Payam-i Baharistan 11 (2nd series; 3rd year) 2011.9: 241-263.
  • Morimoto, Kazuo. “The Earliest `Alid Genealogy for the Safavids: New Evidence for the Pre-dynastic Claim to Sayyid Status.”Iranian Studies 43-4 2010.10: 447-469.
  • Kazu’u Murimutu,. “Darkhwast-i Shakhsi: Ahamiyyat-i Intishar-i Athar-i Ibn-i Funduq dar Zaminah-i Adabiyyat-i `Arabi.”Guzarish-i Mirath 39 2010.6: 74-76.
  • Morimoto, Kazuo. “‘Introduction’ to the special issue ‘Shi‘i Studies’.”Orient 44 2009: 1-2.
  • Kazu’u Murimutu,. “Daftari dar Nasab-shinasi-i Sadat: Mu`arrifi-i Nuskhah-i Khatti az Muzah-i Kitab-khanah-i Milli-i Britaniya.” Translated by Habib Ilah Isma`ili Kitab-i Mah, Tarikh wa Jughrafiya 132 2009.5: 98-103.
  • Morimoto, Kazuo. “The Notebook of a Sayyid/Sharīf Genealogist: Ms. British Library Or. 1406.” Scritti in onore di Biancamaria Scarcia Amoretti, vol. 3. Edited by D. Bredi, et al. Rome: Dipartimento di Studi Orientali, Università di Roma (La Sapienza) and Edizioni Q, 2008: 823-836.
  • Morimoto, Kazuo. “Putting the Lubab al-Ansab in Context: Sayyids and Naqibs in Late Saljuq Khurasan.”Studia Iranica 36, no. 2 2007: 163-183.
  • Kazu’u Murimutu,. “Mutali`ah-i Muqaddamati darbarah-i Parakandigi-i Jughrafiyayi-i Niqaba al-Talibiyin: Dar Pay-i Dark wa Fahmi az Parakandigi wa Gustarish-i Awwaliyah-i Sayyid-ha.” Translated by Muhammad Husayn Haydariyan Ayinah-i Mirath 36 1386: 99-150.
  • Sakai, Takashi. “Taiwanese Studies of Trade Ceramics: At the Intersection of Indigenous and International Historiography.” Translated by Kazuo Morimoto, and Gaynor Sekimori International Journal of Asian Studies 5, no. 1 2007: 97-108.
  • Morimoto, Kazuo. “Summary: Sayyids, Genealogists, Naqibs: A Study on the Genealogical Literature of Sayyid/sharifs from Late 10th through 15th Century. (in Japanese) Ph. D. dissertation, the Graduate School of Humanities and Sociology, University of Tokyo.”Annals of Japan Association for Middle East Studies 22, no. 1 2006: 169-173.
  • Morimoto, Kazuo. “Tarjumah-i Safarnamah-i Nasir-i Khusraw dar ‘Sarzamin-i Shumali’.”Kitab-i Mah: Tarikh wa Jughrafiya 99 1384: 8-13.
  • Morimoto, Kazuo. “Toward the Formation of Sayyido-Sharifology: Questioning Accepted Fact.”The Journal of Sophia Asian Studies 22 2004: 87-103.
  • Morimoto, Kazuo. “A Preliminary Study on the Diffusion of the Niqaba al-Talibiyyin: Towards an Understanding of the Early Dispersal of Sayyids.” The Influence of Human Mobility in Muslim Societies. Edited by Hidemitsu Kuroki, Islamic Area Studies Series. London, New York, Bahrain: Kegan Paul Intl., 2003: 3-42.
  • Morimoto, Kazuo. “The Formation and Development of the Science of Talibid Genealogies in the 10th & 11th Century Middle East.”Oriente Moderno n.s. 18, no. 2 1999: 541-570.
  • Kazu’u Murimutu,. “Shikl-giri-i `Ilm-i Ansab-i Al-i Abi Talib dar Qurun-i Chaharum wa Panjum-i Hijri:The Formation of the Science of Talibid Genealogies in the 4th and the 5th Centuries A.H.”Majallah-i Danishkadah-i Adabiyat wa `Ulum-i Insani-i Danishgah-i Firdawsi-i Mashhad 3 1375: 261-296.
Book Reviews
  • Morimoto, Kazuo. “Book Review: İlker Evrim Binbaş, Intellectual Networks in Timurid Iran: Sharaf al-Dīn ʿAlī Yazdī and the Islamicate Republic of Letters, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2016, Pp. 362.”International Journal of Middle East Studies 49, no. 3 (2017.7): 563-564.
  • Morimoto, Kazuo. “Stephennie Mulder, The Shrines of the ʿAlids in Medieval Syria: Sunnis, Shiʿis and the Architecture of Coexistence, Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2014, xiv, 297 pp.”Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies 77, no. 3 (2014.10): 577-579.
  • Morimoto, Kazuo. “Arnold E. Franklin, This Noble House: Jewish Descendants of King David in the Medieval Islamic East, Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2013, xv + 297 pp.”International Journal of Asian Studies 11, no. 2 (2014.7): 211-213.
  • Morimoto, Kazuo. Review of Creating the Notion of the Islamic World, by Masashi Haneda. Annals of Japan Association for Middle East Studies 22-2 (2006): 193-198.
  • Kazu’u Murimutu,. Review of Pazhuhish dar Tawsif-i Shahr-i Isfahan Niwishtah-i Shardan, by Masashi Haneda. Kitab-i Mah, Tarikh wa Jughurafiya 6 (1377): 12-13.
Conference
  • Morimoto, Kazuo. “Ibrahim b. Yahya “Ibn B-L-L-W-H”: A Najafi Genealogist in Thirteenth-century Cairo.” Presented at the Joint Exeter–Tokyo Seminar “Inscribing Knowledge and Power in Islamic Societies: A Diachronic Study”, The University of Exeter (online), March 2021.
  • Morimoto, Kazuo. “Expert Opinion and Public Opinion: How Was a Noble Genealogy Be Established in Medieval Muslim Societies?” Presented at the Département des Sciences de l’Antiquité, Université Liège, February 2020.
  • Morimoto, Kazuo. “Mushajjars: Multi-Folio Genealogical Charts of the Prophet Muhammad’s Kinfolk.” Presented at the Genealogical Manuscripts: A Cross-Cultural Perspective, Hamburg University, December 2019.
  • Morimoto, Kazuo. “Why Have the Decendants of the Prophet Muhammad Migrated So Widely.” Presented at the Ito International Research Center Symposium, “Crossing Boundaries: Migration, Mediation, Morality”, The University of Tokyo, June 2019.
  • Morimoto, Kazuo. “An Eventful Life of a Medieval Ṭālibid Genealogy: Al-Aṣīlī Metamorphosing into the Ghāyat al-ikhtiṣār.” Presented at the All-Japan–Exeter Joint Workshop/Tobunken Symposium “Knowledge as Power: Production, Control, and Manipulation of Knowledge in Muslim Societies”, The University of Tokyo, April 2019.
Encyclopedia Articles
  • Morimoto, Kazuo. “al-Jawwānī.” in Kate Fleet et al. eds., The Encyclopaedia of Islam Three. Vol. 2019-1 of The: Leiden: Brill, 2019: 101-102.
  • Morimoto, Kazuo. “Ketāb al-naqż.” Encyclopaedia Iranica. Edited by Ehsan Yarshater. Vol. 16-4 of The: Leiden: Brill, 2018.12 : 356-358.
  • Morimoto, Kazuo. “Tadwin, al-.” Encyclopaedia Iranica. Edited by Ehsan Yarshater. Vol. 16-4 of The: Leiden: Brill, 2018.12 : 259-361. [Link]
  • Morimoto, Kazuo. “Ibn ʿInaba.” Encyclopaedia of Islam, 3rd ed.. Edited by Kate Fleet, et al. Vol. 2017-4 of The: Brill, 2017.6 : 135-137.

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