Global Terrorism Research Centre - 2008 Conference
Confirmed Featured Speakers
Associate Professor Mark Sedgwick
Department of the Study of Religion
Coordinator, Unit for Arab and Islamic Studies
Aarhus University, Denmark.
Mark Sedgwick has numerous publications and vast research and teaching experience in the fields of Islam, traditionalism, terrorism, and sectarianism. With a particular interest in the Sufi traditions, Mark has published two major books in this area, including Saints and Sons (2005) and Sufism: The Essentials. In 2006, he published a book titled Islam and Muslims, which explores Islamic theory and practice across the diverse Muslim world. He is currently involved in a major research project that looks at Islam in the 19th and 20th centuries, arguing them to amount to an Islamic Reformation, comparable to the European Reformation of the sixteenth century.
Alongside his position as Coordinator of the Unit for Arab and Islamic Studies at Aarhus University, Mark is member of the editorial board of a number of publications, including the ABC-Clio Encyclopedia of the World's Religions and Journal of Religion in Europe.