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Mark Sedgwick


Mark Sedgwick (born London, England, July 20, 1960) is a British historian specializing in traditionalism, Islam, Sufi mysticism, and terrorism. He is Professor of Arab and Islamic Studies at Aarhus University in Denmark and was secretary of the European Society for the Study of Western Esotericism.

Sedgwick was educated in England at Harrow School and Worcester College, Oxford. He did his PhD in Norway at the University of Bergen.

While living in Cairo in 1990, Sedgwick encountered Sufis from both the Naqshbandiyya tariqa and the Traditionalist Maryamiyya. However, he did not join either group. He started research on Traditionalism in 1996.

Sedgwick first taught history at the American University in Cairo, Egypt. In 2007 he moved to Aarhus University, Denmark as Coordinator of the Arab and Islamic Studies Unit. His books have been translated into French, Italian, Spanish, Russian, Romanian, and Serbian. He was a founder member of the European Society for the Study of Western Esotericism, of which he was Secretary 2010-16. He was elected to the board of the Nordic Society for Middle Eastern Studies in 2016.


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