John C. Wilkinson
John Craven Wilkinson is a scholar of Islamic studies specializing in Ibadi studies. He is a British expert in the field of Ibadi studies.
Biography
Prior to his career in Islamic studies, he worked for international oil companies throughout the Middle East. He then returned to the UK to obtain his PhD at Oxford, where he wrote his doctoral thesis on the Ibadi Imamate of Oman. In 1969, he finished his PhD thesis titled Arab settlement in Oman: the origins and development of the tribal pattern and its relationship to the Imamate. Wilkinson then began a prolific career publishing on Ibadi Islam and Omani history. From 1969 until his retirement in 1997, Wilkinson taught at Oxford University as a Reader. He is also an Emeritus Fellow of St. Hugh's College in Oxford. He is widely regarded as the world's foremost Western expert on Oman's tribes, demonstrated especially in Water and tribal settlement in South-East Arabia. A study of the Aflāj of Oman in 1977.Works
- Wilkinson, John C.: Arab settlement in Oman: the origins and development of the tribal pattern and its relationship to the Imamate. Ph.D. thesis, University of Oxford, 1969.
- Wilkinson, John C.: A short history of Oman from earliest times. Muscat 1972.
- Wilkinson, John C.: Water and tribal settlement in South-East Arabia. A study of the Aflāj of Oman. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1977.
- Wilkinson, John C. and David L. Harrison: min al-Bī'a al-ʿUmāniyya. Transl. Muḥ. Amīn ʿAbdl. Cairo 1983.
- Wilkinson, John C.: The Imamate tradition of Oman. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1987.
- Wilkinson, John C.: Arabia's frontiers: the story of Britain's boundary drawing in the desert. London/New York: Tauris, 1999.
- Wilkinson, John C.: ʿUmān Tārīkhan wa-ʿUlamā'an. Transl. Muḥ. Amīn ʿAbdl. 3rd impr. Muscat: MNHC, 1994.
- Wilkinson, John C.: A Fatal Duel: 'Harry Alis', a behind the scenes figure of the early Third Republic. Chippenham: Anthony Rowe, 2006.
- Wilkinson, John C.: Oman 1965. Muscat: Al Roya Press and Publishing House, 2008.
- Wilkinson, John C.: Ibāḍism: origins and early development in Oman. Oxford/New York: Oxford University Press, 2010.
- Wilkinson, John C.: The Arabs and the Scramble for Africa. Bristol, CT: Equinox, 2015.
Papers related to Ibadism
- Wilkinson, John C.: A sketch of the historical geography of the Trucial Oman down to the beginning of the sixteenth century. Geographical Journal, vol. 130 nr. 3, 337-349.
- Wilkinson, John C.: The Oman question: the background to the political geography of South-east Arabia. Geographical Journal, vol. 137, part 3, 361-371.
- Wilkinson, John C.: The origins of the Omani state. The Arabian Peninsula: society and politics. Ed. Derek Hopwood. London: George Allen and Unwin Ltd., 1972, 67-88.
- Wilkinson, John C.: Arab-Persian land relationships in late Sasānid Oman. Proceedings of the Seminar for Arabian Studies, 1973, 40-51.
- Wilkinson, John C.: Bayāsirah and Bayādīr. Arabian Studies, vol. 1, 1974, 75-85.
- Wilkinson, John C.: The organization of the Falaj irrigation system in Oman. Research Paper nr. 10. School of Geography, University of Oxford.
- Wilkinson, John C.: The Julanda of Oman. Journal of Oman Studies, I, 97-108.
- Wilkinson, John C.: Bio-bibliographical background to the crisis period in the Ibāḍī Imāmate of Oman. Arabian Studies, vol. 3, 137-164.
- Wilkinson, John C.: The Ibāḍī imāma. Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, 39, 535-551.
- Wilkinson, John C.: Islamic water law with special reference to oasis settlement. Journal of Arid Environments, I, 87-96.
- Wilkinson, John C.: The Omani manuscript collection at Muscat. Part II: The early Ibāḍī Fiqh works. Arabian Studies, vol. 4, 191-208.
- Wilkinson, John C.: Sources for the early history of Oman. Studies in the history of Arabia. Vol. 1: Sources for the history of Arabia, part 2, 89-95.
- Wilkinson, John C.: Ṣuḥār in the early Islamic period: the written evidence. In: Taddei 1979, vol. 2, 887-907.
- Wilkinson, John C.: Nash'at al-Aflāj fī ʿUmān. In: Ḥiṣād Nadwat al-Dirāsāt al-ʿUmāniyya. Muscat: MNHC, 1980, vol. 8.
- Wilkinson, John C.: Changes in the structure of village life in Oman. In: Niblock 1980, 122-134.
- Wilkinson, John C.: Oman and East Africa: new light on early Kilwan history from the Omani sources. International Journal of African Historical Studies, vol. 14 272-305.
- Wilkinson, John C.: The early development of the Ibāḍi movement in Basra. In: Juynboll 1982, 125-144, notes 241-249.
- Wilkinson, John C.: Changement et continuité en Oman. In: Bonnenfant, Paul 1982, vol. 2, 393-414.
- Wilkinson, John C.: The origins of the Aflāj of Oman. Journal of Oman Studies, vol. 6 part 1, 177-194.
- Wilkinson, John C.: Traditional concepts of territory in South-east Arabia. Geographical Journal, vol. 149 nr. 3, 301-315.
- Wilkinson, John C.: Ibāḍī Ḥadīth: an essay on normalization. Der Islam 62, 231-259.
- Wilkinson, John C.: al-Baḥrayn wa-ʿUmān. Al-Wathīqa, 6th year nr. 11, 66-85.
- Wilkinson, John C.: The Omani and Ibāḍī background to the Kilwah Sīrah; the demise of Oman as a political and religious force in the Indian Ocean in the 6th/12th century. In: Irvine; Serjeant; Smith 1988, 131-148.
- Wilkinson, John C.: Ibāḍī theological literature. In: Young; Latham; Serjeant 1990, 33-39.
- Wilkinson, John C.: Muslim land and water law. Journal of Islamic Studies, vol. 1 nr. 1, 54-72.
- Wilkinson, John C.: Frontier relationships between Bahrain and Oman. In: Khalifa and Rice 1993, 548-566.
- Wilkinson, John C.: The origins of the Aflāj in Oman. In: Morony 2002, 285-302.
- Wilkinson, John C.: The territorial division of Oman. In: Kapiszewski; al-Salimi; Pikulski 2006, 19-61.
- Wilkinson, John C.: Omani maritime trade in the early Islamic period. In: Proceedings of the International Conference New perspectives in recording UAE history. Abu Dhabi 2009, 145-154.
- Wilkinson, John C.: The Ibāḍī Imāma. In: Saeed, Abdullah: Islamic political thought and governance. London: Routledge, 2010, vol. 2. Reprint from Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, vol. 39, 535-551.
- Wilkinson, John C.: The origins of Omani identity. In: Hoffmann-Ruf and al-Salimi, Oman and Overseas, 35-39.*
- Wilkinson, John C.: Ibadism. Some reconsiderations of its origins and early development. In Ziaka 2014a, 43-52.
- Wilkinson, John C.: On being an Ibāḍī. Muslim World, vol. 105 nr. 2, 142-156.
- Wilkinson, John C.: Moderation and extremism in early Ibāḍī thought. In Francesca, Ibadi Theology: Rereading Sources and Scholarly Works, 47-56.
- Wilkinson, John C.: Contextualizing. The development of Ibāḍī Fiqh. In Michalak-Pikulska and Eisener Ibadi Jurisprudence: Origins, Development, and Cases, 15-23.
- Wilkinson, John C.: Review of Morton, M.Q., Buraimi: The Struggle for Power, Influence and Oil in Arabia, in J. of Arabian Studies, 4/2, 275-86.
- Wilkinson, John C.: Ḥamalat al-ʿIlm. In Eisener Today's Perspectives on Ibadi History, 91-97.
- Wilkinson, John C.: A Historic Perspective on the Nahḍa. In Al-Salimi and Eisener, Oman, Ibadism and Modernity, 25-34.
- Wilkinson, John C.: Ibāḍism and State Formation in Oman. In Al-Salimi and Eisener, Oman, Ibadism and Modernity, 163-170.
- Wilkinson, John C.: Ibadi Hadith. In The Oxford Handbook of Hadith Studies, ed. Mustrafa Shah.