Mark John Sedgwick (American University in Cairo)

Submitted: Mon, 8 May 1995 11:19:59 GMT 

    
Mark John Sedgwick, Mr
American University in Cairo
PO Box 2511, Cairo, Egypt
    
Phones: + 20 2 357 5105 (work) 
        + 20 2 354 0149 (home)
FAX:    + 20 2 355 7565
Email:    SEDGWICK@AUC-ACS.EUN.EG
           SEDGWICK@EGAUCACS.BITNET
    
    
    Modern Islamic history, especially nineteenth- and twentieth- century
[C19/C20] Islam and Sufism (esp. Ahmadiyya, Idrisi tradition,
Naqshabandiyya) often using anthropological approaches. Field work in
Sudan, Egypt, Syria/Lebanon, Malaysia.
    
   Have also worked on political history in Hejaz and Yemen (Asir) from
archival sources.

   Secondary interest in modernity & Islam and in Muslim minorities in
e.g. Singapore, Thailand, Cambodia, and in Islam in Europe and the West
(esp. "Traditionalism" and Rene Guenon)

   Working languages: Arabic, English, French, Spanish and German.