Mark Sedgwick

Region of Interest

Africa

Primary Country of Residence

Denmark

Title

Associate Professor

Affiliation

Aarhus University, Denmark

Email

mjs@teo.au.dk

Mailing Address

Department of the Study of Religion
Coordinator, Unit for Arab and Islamic Studies
Aarhus Universitet
Bygning 1442
Täsingegade 3
DK - 8000
Ärhus C
Denmark

Phone/Fax Number(s)

+45 8942 6792

Websites

http://person.au.dk/mjs@teo.au.dk; http://www.teo.au.dk/aisu/fac/sedgwick

Countries of Specialization

Sudan

Research Interests

Islam, especially Sufism; 18th-20th centuries. Sudan. Also outside
Africa - Arab World, Southeast Asia. Multidisciplinary approach, based in
history. Idrisi tradition.

Teaching Interests

Islam, especially Sufism; 18th-20th centuries. Sudan. Also outside
Africa - Arab World, Southeast Asia. Multidisciplinary approach, based in
history. Idrisi tradition.

Publications

2007 "European Neo-Sufi Movements in the Interwar Period," in Clayer, N.,
Germain, E. (eds), Islam in Europe in the Interwar Period, Hurst,
London.

2007 "Jihad, Modernity, and Sectarianism', Nova Religio: The Journal
of Alternative and Emergent Religions, no. 2, pp. 6-27.

2007 "Quelques sources du dix-huitèime sèicle du pluralisme
religieux inclusif," in Brach, J.-P., Rousse-Lacordaire, J. (eds), Etudes
d'histoire de l'ésotérisme, Editions du Cerf, Paris, pp. 49-65.

2007 "Inspiration and the Origins of Global Waves of Terrorism,"
Studies in Conflict and Terrorism, vol. 30, pp. 97-112.

2006 "Arab Sufism in the Age of Reform," Annals of Japan Association
for Middle East Studies, vol. 21 no. 2, pp. 23-36.

2006 "Visions of the Field," ESSWE Newsletter, pp. 5-6.

2005 "Neo-Sufism," in Hanegraff, W.J. (ed.), Dictionary of Gnosis and
Western Esotericism, Brill, Leiden, pp. 846-49.

2005 Saints and Sons: The Making and Remaking of the Rashidi Ahmadi
Sufi Order, 1799-2000. Brill, Leiden.

2005 "The 'Traditionalist' Shâdhiliyya in the West," Une
voie soufie dans le monde, Maisonneuve & Larose, Paris, pp. 453-71.

2004 Against the Modern World: Traditionalism and the Secret
Intellectual History of the Twentieth Century, Oxford University Press,
New York.

2004 "Al-Qaeda and the Nature of Religious Terrorism," Terrorism and
Political Violence, vol. 16, pp. 795-814.

2004 "Establishments and Sects in the Islamic World," in Lucas, P.,
Robbins, T. (eds), New Religious Movements in the 21st Century, Routledge,
New York, pp. 283-312.

2004 "In Search of the Counter-Reformation," in Kurzman, C.,
Browers, M. (eds), An Islamic Reformation?, Lexington Books, Lanham, Md,
pp. 125-45.

2004 "Mutations transatlantiques du soufisme', in Rigal-Cellard, B. (ed.),
Sectes, Eglises, Mystiques, Pleine Page, Bordeaux, pp. 157-75.

Keywords

Islam ; Sufism ; Idrisi tradition ; Africa-Arab World ; history ; ...