MORIYAMA Teruaki

    Fellow at The Japan Institute of Internatinal Affairs.
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Research Interest

• Major Field of Study: Social and Cultural History of Middle East
  
• Current Topic: Influences of the 'Ulama' on the Political and Social Movements in the Modern and Contemporary Middle East,
  Social and Cultural Roles of the 'Ulama' in the Mediaeval Middle East Muslim Societies

Education

1996	B.A. History Tokyo Metropolitan University, Faculty of Social Sciences and Humanities, Department of History
1999	M.A. History Tokyo Metropolitan University, Graduate School of Humanities, M.A. Program
2009	Ph.D. Literature the University of Tokyo, Graduate School of Humanities and Sociology, Ph.D. Program

 

Professional Experience

April 2001-March 2003	Chercheur Associe, Institut Franais d'Etudes Arabes de Damas: IFEAD
April 2006-March 2009	PD Research Fellow, The Japan Society for the Promotion of Sciences (worked at The Toyo Bunko: Oriental Library)
April 2006-Present	Part-time Lecturer, Faculty of Foreign Studies, Sophia University
April 2009-Present	Part-time Lecturer, Faculty of Law, Nihon Univeristy
April 2010-Present	Associated Researcher, Institute of Asian Cultures, Sophia University
April 2010-Present	Fellow, The Japan Institute of International Affairs

 

Publications

Ph.D. Thesis
The Biographical Local Histories as a Genre of Hadith Literature: The Widespread of Their Compilation from the 10th to 13th Centuries and its Background, The University of Tokyo, 2009.(in Japanese)

Articles

• "The Establishment of the Islamic Knowledge and Changes in its Proliferation: The Case of Nishapur between the 10th and 12th Centuries," Shigaku-Zasshi, 113-8 (2004), (in Japanese with English summary).

• "Vilifying 'Ali and Denying it in Syria: Analysis of the Traditions Contained in the History of Damascus," Orient, 47-1 (2004), (in Japanese with English summary).

• "The Vilification and the Reverence: Particularities of the Syrian Muslims' View on 'Ali in the 9th and 12th Centuries Reflected in the Accounts of the History of Damascus," The Journal of Sophia Asian Studies 22 (2004).

• "The Reception and Use of the Hadith Knowledge," Rekishigaku Kenkyu: The Journal of the Historical Science Society, 820 (2006), (in Japanese).

• "Travels for Knowledge: The Logic of the Importance of Hadith Scholars' Travels," in The Movement and Network in the History, ed. The Metropolitan Historical Association, Tokyo: Sakurai Shoten, 2007, (in Japanese).

• "Regional Prosopography of the 'Biographical Local Histories' Compiled in the Medieval Islamic World: Its Character and Purpose," The Toyo Gakuho: The Journal of the Research Department of the Toyo Bunko, 90-4 (2009), (in Japanese with English summary).
   

Book Review and Column

• "Review: Kisa'ichi Masatoshi, Kurita Yoshiko eds. Popular Movements and Democratization in the Islamic Regions, The University of Tokyo Press, Tokyo, 2004," Shigaku-Zasshi, 113-9 (2004), (in Japanese).

• "Sentimental Minority: Caucasian Immigrants in Syria," in 60 Chapters to Understand Caucasus, eds. Kitagawa Sei'ichi et al. Tokyo: Akashi-Shoten, 2006, (in Japanese).

• "Book Review: Jonathan Brown, The Canonization of al-Bukhari and Muslim: The Formation and Function of the Sunni Hadith Canon, Brill, Leiden/Boston, 2007," The Toyo Gakuho: The Journal of the Research Department of the Toyo Bunko, 90-2 (2008), (in Japanese).
   

Presentations

• "The People surrounding 'Ulama': from descriptions of the Histories of Nishapur," International Workshop: People and Popular Movements in Muslim Areas, Kyoto University of Foreign Studies, 2000.

• "The Prevalence of Compiling Biographical Local Histories," Middle East Studies Association of North America, Annual Meeting 2005, Washington DC, USA, 2005.

• "The Historical and Geographical Evolution of the Local Biographical Histories from the 10th to the 12th Centuries A.D.," Second World Congress for Middle Eastern Studies (WOCMES2), Amman, Jordan, 2006.

Association Membership

• Rekishigaku Kenkyukai: The Historical Science Society of Japan

• Shigakukai: The Historical Society of Japan

• Japan Association for Middle East Studies (JAMES)

• The Society for Near Eastern Studies in Japan

• Association for Islamic Studies in Japan

• Middle East Studies Association of North America (MESA)
   

Research Grants and Fellowships

April 2001-March 2002	Noma Fellowship for Asia-Africa Field Studies (Kodansha Publisher Co., Ltd.)
April 2006-March 2008	JSPS Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research