Yohei KONDO

Brief personal history

BA (Sophia University, Japan, 2005)
MA(The University of Tokyo, 2007)

2008-2010, Researcher at the Japanese Embassy to the Sultanate of Oman
2012-2015, Project Assistant Professor, Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, The University of Tokyo
2015-2018, Research Associate, The Research Institute for Languages and Cultures of Asia and Africa, Tokyo University for Foreign Studies/ Residential Researcher of Japan Center for Middle Eastern Studies in Beirut, Lebanon
2018-2021, Project Assistant Professor, Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, The University of Tokyo
2021-2022, Post Doctoral Researcher, Graduate School of Humanities and Sociology, The University of Tokyo
2022-present, Associate Professor, College of International Arts and Sciences, Fukuoka Women's University

Degrees

PhD (The University of Tokyo, 2013)

Research themes

History of Islamic Thought and Society

Brief explanation of research

I focus mainly on the Ibadis among the Islamic denominations, examining how they developed their scholastic and doctrinal systems from the 8th to 12th centuries A.D., reading Arabic theological, legal, historical, and biographical texts. In addition, I examine the relationship between Islamic denominations in the Middle East since the 19th century AD, directing my attention to scholars' understandings and interpretations of jurisprudential and theological issues, especially in Oman.

Select publication list

1.Yohei KONDO(2022) "Establishing Common Grounds: Ibāḍī Theories of Abrogation," Sophia Journal of Asian, African, and Middle Eastern Studies(The Journal of Sophia Asian Studies), pp. 49-68

2.Yohei KONDO(2021) "Transmission of Knowledge among the Ibāḍīs in Oman: Ibn Baraka's Notebook (taqyīd) and Its Circulation," Nouvelles chroniques du manuscrit au Yémen, Numéro spécial 3, pp. 38-59

3.Yohei KONDO(2021) "Survival Strategies of Religious Minority Groups in Oman," Yohei KONDO (ed.), Survival Strategies of Minorities in the Middle East Studies on Religious and Politico-Social Minority Groups in Middle Eastern Societies (Tokyo: Research Institute for Languages and Cultures of Asia and Africa, Tokyo University of Foreign Studies), pp. 123-142

4.Yohei KONDO(2020) "[Book Review] Muranyi, Miklos:The First Compendium of Ibadi Law. The Mudawwana by Abu Ghanim Bishr b. Ghanim al-Khurasani," Hildesheim/Zürich/New York: Georg Olms Verlag 2018. 160 S. 8° = Studies on Ibadism and Oman 14. €38,00. ISBN 978-3-487-15678-1" Orientalistische Literaturzeitung 115(2), pp. 156-158

5.Yohei KONDO(2019) "Migration, Scholarly Exchange, and the Early Development of Ibāḍī Law in Oman," Yohei Kondo and Angeliki Ziaka (eds.), Local and Global Ibadi Identities. Hildesheim, Zürich, New York: Georg Olms Verlag, pp. 87-98

6.Yohei KONDO(2018) "Ibāḍī Policy on Education and Learning in the Premodern Period," A. al-Salimi and R. Eisener (eds.), Oman, Ibadism and Modernity, Hildesheim: Georg Olms Verlagsbuchhandlung, pp. 221-234

7.Yohei KONDO(2017) "The Deposition of al-Imām al-Ṣalt b. Mālik and the Ibāḍī Imamate Tradition of Oman," R. Eisener (ed.), Today’s Perspectives on Ibadi History, Hildesheim: Georg Olms Verlagsbuchhandlung, pp. 197-210

8.Yohei KONDO(2015) "The Development of Ibāḍī Jurisprudence in Oman in the 3rd/9th and 4th/10th Centuries: A Preliminary Study of Some Marriage Issues," Barbara Michalak-Pikulska and Reinhard Eisener (eds.), Ibadi Jurisprudence: Origins, Developments and Cases, Hildesheim: Georg Olms Verlagsbuchhandlung, pp. 81-92

9. Yohei KONDO(2015) "The Concepts of walaya, bara’a, and wuquf among 2nd/8th-3rd/9th Centuries Ibadis," E. Francesca (ed.), Ibadi Theology: Rereading Sources and Scholarly Works, Hildesheim: Georg Olms Verlagsbuchhandlung, pp. 185-197

10.Yohei KONDO(2015) "Ibāḍī Discussions on Conversion and Commitment," The Muslim World 105(2), pp. 224-235

Research field

Islamic Studies, Area Studies (Middle East and Africa)

Related field

Literature and History
Social System Studies

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