Mark Sedgwick (Aarhus University, Denmark)

Submitted:  Tues, May 13, 2008


Dr. Mark Sedgwick
Associate Professor
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:  +45 8942 6792
e-mail:   mjs@teo.au.dk

Web page: http://person.au.dk/mjs@teo.au.dk -or-
 http://www.teo.au.dk/aisu/fac/sedgwick


Research and teaching interests: 

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


Recent 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.