Mark Sedgwick

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Institut for Kultur og Samfund - Arabisk og Islamstudier, fag
Jens Chr. Skous Vej 3
bygning 1451, 522
8000 Aarhus C
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mjrs@cas.au.dk
Fastnet: +4587162657

My research focuses on junctions for the transfer of religions and traditions in the late pre-modern and modern periods. My most recent book is Traditionalism: The Radical Project for Restoring Sacred Order (London: Pelican; New York: Oxford University Press, 2023). See the YouTube video here.

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on the Islamic side, I have published a biography of Muhammad Abduh (2009), as well as two books on Sufism: Saints and Sons (2005), dealing with the history of a group of Sufi orders, and Sufism: The Essentials (first published in 2000, and now reprinted and translated into several languages). An introduction to Islam with a difference--Islam and Muslims--came out in 2006. In 2021, I edited (together with Francesco Piraino) a collection, Esoteric Transfers and Constructions: Judaism, Christianity, and Islam (Palgrave, 2021). I have also published various articles on sectarianism, religious change, and terrorism, such as "The concept of radicalization as a source of confusion" (in Terrorism and Political Violence, 2010).
on the Western side, my most recent book is an edited collection, Key Thinkers of the Radical Right: Behind the New Threat to Liberal Democracy (2019), and my most recent mongraph is Western Sufism: From the Abbasids to the New Age (2016). I have also published a collection, Anarchist, Artist, Sufi: The Politics, Painting, and Esotericism of Ivan Aguéli (Bloomsbury, 2021), and a collected volume on Making European Muslims: Religious Socialization Among Young Muslims in Scandinavia and Western Europe (2014), which was one outcome of a collective project I ran on Islam, Muslims and Danish Schools. I have worked for many years on Guénonian Traditionalism, an anti-modernist movement which takes political as well as religious and philosophical forms, and has recently spread to the Islamic world and Russia. This project resulted in a book, Against the Modern World (2004), an active blog, a website that is no longer updated (traditionalists.org), a number of articles, and my recent Traditionalism: The Radical Project for Restoring Sacred Order. Against the Modern World has now been translated into French, German, Portuguese (Brazilian), Russian, Serbian, and Turkish.
My current major project is an EU-funded project, DRIVE: Resisting Radicalisation through Inclusion, with partners from five other European universities.

I am coordinator of the Arab and Islamic Studies Research Network (ICSRU) at Aarhus University. I am also president of the European Network for the Study of Islam and Esotericism and chair of the Nordic Society for Middle Eastern Studies.

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Forskningsområder

Afrika i alm. Sudan
Europa i alm. Islam i Europa Neo-Sufisme
Islam Islam og muslimer i Europa Islamisme Modernisering og reform Sufisme
Kulturhistorie Neo-Sufisme Religiøsitet
Kulturmøde Islam og vesten
Mellemøsten i alm. Arabiske verden Iran Israel Tyrkiet
Mystik og spiritualitet Sufisme Traditionalisme
Religion og politik Eurasianisme Islam
Religiøse bevægelser Neo-Sufisme Nye religiøse bevægelser Typologi
Sikkerhed Islamisme Mellemøsten Religion og terrorisme
Øvrige lande Malaysia Singapore

Udvalgte publikationer

Udgivet
Western Sufism: From the Abbasids to the New Age
Sedgwick, M., 2016, New York: Oxford University Press. 368 s.
Publikation: Bog/antologi/afhandling/rapport › Bog › Forskning › peer review
Udgivet
Islamforskning på Aarhus Universitet: (snart) ti år med ICSRU
Fibiger, T. B. & Sedgwick, M., nov. 2016, I: Tidsskrift for Islamforskning. 10, 1, s. 63-73 11 s.
Publikation: Bidrag til tidsskrift/Konferencebidrag i tidsskrift /Bidrag til avis › Tidsskriftartikel › Formidling
Udgivet
Jihadism, Narrow and Wide: The Dangers of Loose Use of an Important Term
Sedgwick, M., apr. 2015, I: Perspectives on Terrorism. 9, 2, s. 34-41 8 s.
Publikation: Bidrag til tidsskrift/Konferencebidrag i tidsskrift /Bidrag til avis › Tidsskriftartikel › Forskning › peer review
Udgivet
The Making of a Sufi Saint of the Twentieth Century: Shaykh Ahmad al-‘Alawî (1869-1934)
Sedgwick, M., 2015, I: Journal of the history of Sufism / Tasavvuf tarihi araştırmaları dergisi / Journal d'histoire du Soufisme. 6, s. 225-240 16 s.
Publikation: Bidrag til tidsskrift/Konferencebidrag i tidsskrift /Bidrag til avis › Tidsskriftartikel › Forskning › peer review
Udgivet
Sufis as ‘Good Muslims’: Sufism in the Battle against Jihadi Salafism
Sedgwick, M., 2015, Sufis and Salafis in the Contemporary Age. Ridgeon, L. (red.). London: Bloomsbury Academic, s. 105-17 14 s.
Publikation: Bidrag til bog/antologi/rapport/proceeding › Bidrag til bog/antologi › Forskning › peer review
Udgivet
Islamic Myths and Memories: Mediators of Globalization
Weismann, I. (red.), Sedgwick, M. (red.) & Mårtensson, U. (red.), 2014, Farnham: Ashgate. 263 s.
Publikation: Bog/antologi/afhandling/rapport › Antologi › Forskning › peer review
Udgivet
Making European Muslims: Religious Socialization Among Young Muslims in Scandinavia and Western Europe
Sedgwick, M. (red.), 2014, New York: Routledge. 296 s.
Publikation: Bog/antologi/afhandling/rapport › Antologi › Forskning › peer review
Udgivet
Something Varied in the State of Denmark: Neo-nationalism, Anti-Islamic Activism, and Street-level Thuggery
Sedgwick, M., 21 jun. 2013, I: Politics, Religion & Ideology. 14, 2, s. 208-33 27 s.
Publikation: Bidrag til tidsskrift/Konferencebidrag i tidsskrift /Bidrag til avis › Tidsskriftartikel › Forskning › peer review
Udgivet
Neo-Sufism
Sedgwick, M., 2012, The Cambridge Companion to New Religious Movements. Hammer, O. & Rothstein, M. (red.). Cambridge University Press, s. 198-214 16 s. (Cambridge Companions to Religion).
Publikation: Bidrag til bog/antologi/rapport/proceeding › Bidrag til bog/antologi › Forskning › peer review
Udgivet
The Concept of Radicalization as a Source of Confusion
Sedgwick, M., 2010, I: Terrorism and Political Violence. 22, 4, s. 479-494 16 s.
Publikation: Bidrag til tidsskrift/Konferencebidrag i tidsskrift /Bidrag til avis › Tidsskriftartikel › Forskning › peer review
Udgivet
Muhammad Abduh
Sedgwick, M., 2009, Oxford: Oneworld Publications. 152 s. (Makers of the Muslim World).
Publikation: Bog/antologi/afhandling/rapport › Bog › Forskning
Udgivet
Islam and Muslims: A Guide to Diverse Experience in a Modern World
Sedgwick, M., 2006, Boston: Intercultural Press. 276 s.
Publikation: Bog/antologi/afhandling/rapport › Bog › Formidling
Udgivet
Saints and Sons: The Making and Remaking of the Rashidi Ahmadi Sufi Order, 1799-2000
Sedgwick, M., 2005, Leiden: Brill. 255 s.
Publikation: Bog/antologi/afhandling/rapport › Bog › Forskning
Udgivet
Al-Qaeda and the Nature of Religious Terrorism
Sedgwick, M., 2004, I: Terrorism and Political Violence. 16, s. 795-814 19 s.
Publikation: Bidrag til tidsskrift/Konferencebidrag i tidsskrift /Bidrag til avis › Tidsskriftartikel › Forskning › peer review
Udgivet
Against the Modern World: Traditionalism and the Secret Intellectual History of the Twentieth Century
Sedgwick, M., 2004, New York: Oxford University Press. 384 s.
Publikation: Bog/antologi/afhandling/rapport › Bog › Forskning
Udgivet
Sufism: The Essentials
Sedgwick, M., 2000, Cairo: AUC Press. 132 s.
Publikation: Bog/antologi/afhandling/rapport › Bog › Formidling