PHDs
1982 Lidwien Kapteijns, 'The Rise of a Sultanate. Mahdist Example and Sudanic Tradition in Dar Masalit, c. 1870 to 1930.' Amsterdam (co-promoter: O'Fahey).
1983 Anders Bjørkelo, 'From King to Kashif. Shendi in the Nineteenth Century.'
1985 Ali Salih Karrar, 'The Sufi Brotherhoods in the Sudan until 1900.'
1991 Knut S. Vikør, 'Sufi and Scholar of the Desert-side. Muhammad b. 'Ali al-Sanusi'.
1993 Endre Stiansen, 'Overture to Imperialism. European Trade and Economic Change in the Sudan in the Nineteenth Century'.

Ahmed Ibrahim Shook: The Bidayriyya.
Michel Hoebink: The idelogical dimension to the North/South conflict in the Sudan.
Albrecht Hofheinz: The Majadhib of al-Damar.
Bjarne Osvald Holmedal: The 'Foreign Policy' of the Condominium Government in the Sudan.
Kjell Hødnebø: Cattle, Corn and Crisis. Agrarian and ecological change in South Sudan.
Mark Sedgwick: The Dandarawiyya tariqa in Egypt.
1998 Ahmed Aby Shouk: Dár Bidayriyya Nazirate. Traditional leadership and Indvieet Rule in the Sudan 1900-1970.
2004 Vibeke Vågenes: 'Women of Interior? Men of Exterior. The Gender Order of Hadendora Nomads, Red Sea Hills, Sudan'.

Jens Weise Olesen: The Beja, famine and the British (O'Fahey).
Kirsten Alsaker Kjerland: Identity and Adaptation among the abaKuria of East Africa 1890-1960.