M Sedgwick
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 16079 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | M Sedgwick |
| NOMBRES | M |
| APELLIDO | Sedgwick |
| FIRMA | SEDGWICK M |
| AFILIACIONES | Aarhus University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-0560-8862 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 65 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 161 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 62 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1997 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 5 |
Hermetic Traditionalism in Spain
Traditionalism, usually associated with Sufism following the examples of René Guénon and Frithjof Schuon, took an unusual Hermetic form in Spain under the leadership of Federico González Frías (1933–2014). González, originally from Argentina, established the Barcelona-based Center for the Study of Symbology during Spain’s democratic Transition, when interest in spiritual alternatives flourished. Rejecting both Sufism and Schuon’s Maryamiyya, Gonz…
Far-Right Politics and the Study of Esotericism
Neo-Traditionalism in Islam in the West
Empire’s Son, Empire’s Orphan
Aleksandr Dugin’s Traditionalist roots
By the time of the Russo-Ukrainian War, the Russian political activist Aleksandr Dugin was known as an ultra-nationalist, a fascist, a geopolitician, a Eurasianist, a Heideggerian, and sometimes also as a Traditionalist in the school established by René Guénon. Some, however, hold that Dugin had left Traditionalism far behind, or perhaps had never really been a Traditionalist in the first place. This article examines the extent to which Dugin’s e…
Away from Chaos
This book was originally published in French in 2018 under a slightly different title: Sortir du chaos: Les crises en Méditerranée et au Moyen-Orient (Away from Chaos: Crises in the Mediterranean and the Middle East), and the original title is really more appropriate, as the book is nearly all about the crises, not the challenge to the West. In the French original, the challenge was not even to the West but rather to Europe; it was explained at t…
The great replacement narrative
The narrative of a coming ‘great replacement’ of long-established European populations by Muslim migrants and their offspring is one of the most widely believed and influential stories being told today by right-wing populists. It is often seen as a marginal conspiracy theory that has somehow become mainstream. In fact, as this article shows, it is neither marginal nor a conspiracy theory, but rather owes more to scholars such as Samuel Huntington…
Islamic Modernities in World Society
Waleed Ziad. Hidden Caliphate
Journal Article Waleed Ziad. Hidden Caliphate: Sufi Saints beyond the Oxus and Indus. Get access Waleed Ziad. Hidden Caliphate: Sufi Saints beyond the Oxus and Indus. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2021. Pp. 368. Cloth $46.00. Mark Sedgwick Mark Sedgwick Aarhus University, Denmark Email: [email protected] https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0560-8862 Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The American Historical R…
The Traditionalist micro-utopia of Bloomington, Indiana
Islamophobia and Securitisation
Religion as a Convenient Explanation for Conflict
Muhammad ʿAbduh
Journal Article Muhammad ʿAbduh: Modern Islam and the Culture of Ambiguity By Oliver Scharbrodt Get access Muhammad ʿAbduh: Modern Islam and the Culture of AmbiguityBy Oliver Scharbrodt (London: Bloomsbury [I.B. Tauris], 2022), xi + 262 pp. Price HB £85.00, EB £76.50. EAN 978–1838607302. Mark Sedgwick Mark Sedgwick University of Aarhus E-mail: [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of Islam…
The Glocalization of Esotericism
This article traces the history of the South American reception of the work of the esoteric philosophers René Guénon and Julius Evola, and of the Maryami Sufi Order of Frithjof Schuon, focusing on Argentina, Brazil, Chile, and Peru. It compares South American forms of Traditionalism with those found elsewhere, primarily in Europe and North America, understanding differences between these in terms of “glocalization,” the local adaptation of the gl…
Varieties of American Sufism
Ahmet T. Kuru, Islam, Authoritarianism, and Underdevelopment
In this book, Ahmet T. Kuru, a political scientist, addresses one of the most difficult and fundamental questions confronting all who are interested in Islam and the Muslim world: what went wrong? At one point, the Muslims led the world; now, they are relatively backward. Kuru identifies two common approaches to answering this question: an essentialist approach that blames Islam and a post-colonial approach that blames the West. He rejects both o…
La importancia de visibilizar la Carrera Dual en revistas científicas (The Importance of Making the Dual Career Visible in Scientific Journals)
La Carrera Dual (CD) es probablemente uno de los temas estrella en la investigación, aplicación y docencia en Ciencias del Deporte en la segunda década del siglo XXI. Los orígenes de la temática cabe buscarlos en los trabajos que a finales del siglo XX se realizaron sobre los problemas vinculados a la retirada del deporte de élite (ver Jordana et al., 2017 y Park et al., 2013 para revisiones). En varios de los trabajos que resumen estas revisione…
Traditionalism and the Far Right in Argentina
The Traditionalism of the French esoteric philosopher René Guénon and the Italian esoteric philosopher Julius Evola is important for the Far Right. Guénon’s Traditionalism is primarily religious, but has significant political implications, while Evola’s Traditionalism is primarily political, though retaining its religious grounding. It has been important for the Far Right in Europe, Russia, and North America. As this article shows, Traditionalism…
Guénonian Traditionalism in South American literature and academia
The Modernity of Neo-Traditionalist Islam
The chapter discusses certain exponents of “traditional Islam” who are organized in an informal network spanning both the Arab world and the West and who are referred to as “Neo-traditionalists,” since the chapter argues that their traditionalism is, in fact, modern. The key figures are Muhammad Saʿid Ramadan al-Buti in Syria, ʿAli Gomaa in Egypt, ʿUmar bin Hafiz in Yemen, Prince Ghazi bin Muhammad and Nuh Keller in Jordan, Abdal Hakim Murad in E…
Traditionalism in Brazil
The Traditionalist movement that derives from the French esoteric philosopher René Guénon is known to have been influential in Europe and North America, especially through the activities of religious groups, usually of Sufi origin, and also through the growing impact of the political version of Traditionalism first developed by the Italian esoteric philosopher Julius Evola. This article looks at Traditionalism beyond Europe and North America, tak…
Islam in Bosnia Between East and West
The article looks at the reception and development of Guénonian Traditionalism in Bosnia from the 1970s to the present day. Traditionalism was initially received in Yugoslavia as esotericism, but then its reception became more Islamic, based in Sarajevo’s Islamic Theology Faculty. After the Bosnian War, Islamic Traditionalist works became popular among young Bosnians who wanted to combine Islam with European identities. Some Bosnian ulama taught …
Sufi Religious Leaders and Sufi Orders in the Contemporary Middle East
This article examines the authority of the Sufi shaykh, which it divides between the esoteric and the exoteric (which includes the social implications of esoteric authority) and analyses with help from Weber. In principle Sufi shaykhs are among the most important leaders of the Sunni faithful. In practice, however, the Sufi shaykh now has much less power and authority than might be expected. This is partly because modern states have, in general, …
Asia, Modernity, and the Pursuit of the Sacred
Adil Hussain Khan. From Sufism to Ahmadiyya
The Ahmadiyya is a religious movement that started among Muslims in British India in the 1880s. It has since spread widely and become increasingly distinct from Islam, to the point where some now regard it as a separate religion. The Ahmadiyya is in a sense the Islamic equivalent of Mormonism. Its history is interesting in itself, and provides an important context for understanding Pakistan’s increasingly controversial blasphemy laws. Its history…
The Concept of Radicalization as a Source of Confusion
The ubiquity of use of the term “radicalization” suggests a consensus about its meaning, but this article shows through a review of a variety of definitions that no such consensus exists. The article then argues that use of the term is problematic not just for these reasons, but because it is used in three different contexts: the security context, the integration context, and the foreign-policy context. It is argued that each of these contexts ha…
Against the Modern World
"Against the Modern World is the first history of Traditionalism, an important yet surprisingly little-known twentieth-century anti-modern movement. Comprising a number of often secret but sometimes very influential religious groups in the West and in the Islamic world, it affected mainstream and radical politics in Europe and the development of the field of religious studies in the United States, touching the lives of many individuals."--BOOK JA…
Inspiration and the Origins of Global Waves of Terrorism
This article examines the causes of terrorism at a global level. It also reexamines the chronology of terrorism since the nineteenth century. It argues that local causes cannot explain global waves, and that while ideology is a necessary ingredient in causing terrorism, it does not explain it. The article proposes that the most important cause of global waves of terror is the inspiring example for radicals everywhere of what are, or appear to be,…
Al-Qaeda and the Nature of Religious Terrorism
This article examines the nature of religious terrorism, principally with reference to al-Qaeda. It argues that a distinction must be made between the ultimate aims and the immediate objectives of 'religious' terrorists, and that while the ultimate aims will be religiously formulated, the immediate objectives will often be found to be almost purely political. This distinction is illustrated with reference to such pre-modern religious terrorists a…
Measuring Egyptian Regime Legitimacy
In the introduction to this special issue, Morten Valbjorn and Andre Bank identify the ‘lack of attention to the changes in the apparent continuity’ in the Arab world as one problem with current Mi
The great replacement narrative
The narrative of a coming ‘great replacement’ of long-established European populations by Muslim migrants and their offspring is one of the most widely believed and influential stories being told today by right-wing populists. It is often seen as a marginal conspiracy theory that has somehow become mainstream. In fact, as this article shows, it is neither marginal nor a conspiracy theory, but rather owes more to scholars such as Samuel Huntington…
Something Varied in the State of Denmark
The article argues that categories such as ‘Islamophobic’ and ‘Right Wing’ are inadequate and even misleading descriptors of reactions to Islam in Europe, and should be replaced by a distinction between neo-nationalism, anti-Islamic activism, and street-level thuggery. Neo-nationalism is a well-established but underused descriptor; anti-Islamic activism and street-level thuggery are more novel and are explored in the article. The article applies …
Jihadist ideology, Western counter-ideology, and the ABC model
Counter-ideology is an important part of counter-radicalisation, but much counter-ideology aimed at jihadism is likely to be ineffective because it advances propositions that make more sense to Western governments than to the Muslims at whom the counter-ideology is addressed. This article uses an ‘ABC’ model to analyse the major components of jihadist ideology. It shows that much of the counter-ideology is aimed at parts of the jihadist narrative…
Aleksandr Dugin’s Traditionalist roots
By the time of the Russo-Ukrainian War, the Russian political activist Aleksandr Dugin was known as an ultra-nationalist, a fascist, a geopolitician, a Eurasianist, a Heideggerian, and sometimes also as a Traditionalist in the school established by René Guénon. Some, however, hold that Dugin had left Traditionalism far behind, or perhaps had never really been a Traditionalist in the first place. This article examines the extent to which Dugin’s e…
Traditionalism and the Far Right in Argentina
The Traditionalism of the French esoteric philosopher René Guénon and the Italian esoteric philosopher Julius Evola is important for the Far Right. Guénon’s Traditionalism is primarily religious, but has significant political implications, while Evola’s Traditionalism is primarily political, though retaining its religious grounding. It has been important for the Far Right in Europe, Russia, and North America. As this article shows, Traditionalism…
Guénonian Traditionalism in South American literature and academia
Sufi Religious Leaders and Sufi Orders in the Contemporary Middle East
This article examines the authority of the Sufi shaykh, which it divides between the esoteric and the exoteric (which includes the social implications of esoteric authority) and analyses with help from Weber. In principle Sufi shaykhs are among the most important leaders of the Sunni faithful. In practice, however, the Sufi shaykh now has much less power and authority than might be expected. This is partly because modern states have, in general, …
Saudi Sufis
In 1941, Abf'l-'Abbas al-Dandarawi (1898/9-1953) was expelled from Saudi Arabia after a dispute with King 'Abd al-'Aziz ibn Sa'fud over the celebration of the mawlid al-nabi.1 Abf'l-'Abbas, an Egyptian, had until this time been living in Mecca, from where he directed the Dandarawiyya, one of the many Sufi orders which derive from the great early-nineteenth-century Moroccan Sufi, Ahmad ibn Idris (1750/60-1837).2 The Dandarawiyya was at that time a…
Sects in the Islamic World1
Research Article| April 01 2000 Sects in the Islamic World1 Mark Sedgwick Mark Sedgwick Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Nova Religio (2000) 3 (2): 195–240. https://doi.org/10.1525/nr.2000.3.2.195 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Twitter LinkedIn Tools Icon Tools Get Permissions Cite Icon Cite Search Site Citation Mark Sedgwick; …
L. Carl Brown. Religion and State
Sects and Politics
Responding to the articles of Jeff Kenney, Amira Sonbol, and William Shepard, Mark Sedgwick first modifies his original typology to include William Shepard's proposed category of "establishment." While applauding many of Jeff Kenney's points, Sedgwick defends the use of typologies of Western origin, such as his own, when discussing Islamic sects. Although he accepts Amira Sonbol's call for deeper analysis than is provided by the sociological clas…
Selling America
Fragmentation
This chapter returns to Gu”non’s biography, covering the period from the Second World War until Gu”non’s death in 1951. It introduces Martin Lings and Henri Hartung, and includes the split between Schuon and Gu”non during 1948–50. The chapter explores the causes and consequences of this split. It examines the modifications made to the Alawiyya by Schuon that led to the rejection of Schuon by Gu”non and others, and the independent Traditionalist g…
Prologue
The prologue describes the author’s quest as researcher. It introduces the main themes and personalities dealt with in the book; some identities are partially concealed.
The Islamic World
Against the Stream
This chapter analyzes the development of Traditionalism as shown in previous chapters and the relationship of Traditionalism to modernity. It discusses historical streams, the motivations of individuals who became Traditionalists (partly a function of alienation), and the relationship between these matters and globalization and Orientalism.
Gnostics, Taoists, and Sufis
This chapter continues the early biography of Ren” Gu”non from 1909. It covers his membership in the Universal Gnostic Church and his Masonic contacts with Oswald Wirth, and ends with the dissolution of the Belle Epoque occultist milieu during the First World War. The chapter also examines the influence on Gu”non of the ideas of the imperialist Albert de Pouvourville and of the Sufi Ivan Agu”li, and the origins of de Pouvourville’s and Agu”li’s i…
Fascism
This chapter interrupts Gu”non’s biography to look at the development of political Traditionalism. The chapter first considers the involvement of Rudolf von Sebettendorff in the foundation of the German Nazi Party. It then turns to Julius Evola, the most important political Traditionalist, examining his development of Gu”non’s work and his involvement with Italian Fascism and German Nazism before and during the Second World War. The chapter ends …
Terror in Italy
This chapter completes the history of political Traditionalism and covers Evola’s biography from the end of the Second World War until his death. It considers Evola’s postwar modifications of political Traditionalism, and the terrorist activities of the various “neo-fascist” and Extreme Right groups that took their inspiration from Evola’s Traditionalism, especially as modified by Franco Freda. It ends with a discussion of contemporary political …
Cairo, Mostaganem, and Basel
This chapter covers Gu”non’s biography from a series of disasters in 1927–28 that led to his emigration to Egypt in 1930 until the start of the Second World War. It examines Gu”non’s life in Egypt and the nature of his conversion to Islam, and the impact of Egypt and Islam on Traditionalism. As well as lying behind future developments in French Freemasonry, this impact resulted in the formation of two Traditionalist religious groups, one short-li…
America
This chapter completes the history of Schuon’s Maryamiyya (formerly the Alawiyya), covering events from the 1970s to Schuon’s death in 1998. It considers the spread of the Maryamiyya, its involvement with two best-selling writers (one a Catholic monk, Thomas Merton, and the other a scholar, Huston Smith), and its influence through the books and other activities of Schuon’s followers. The chapter ends with a discussion of the controversial communi…
Education
This chapter considers the impact of Traditionalism on the discipline of religious studies through the activities there of Mircea Eliade. It also considers other interactions of Traditionalism and education: Louis Dumont in French sociology, Rabbi L”on Ask”nazi and French Judaism, and the activities in France of Schuon’s one-time follower Henri Hartung, a pioneer in executive and continuing education. It ends with the adventures of a Traditionali…
Neo-Eurasianism in Russia
This chapter starts with the discovery of Traditionalism by a group of Soviet dissidents including Gaydar Jamal (1947– ) and Alexander Dugin, and considers Jamal’s and Dugin’s first involvement in Russian politics during perestroika. After explaining the contribution of Traditionalism to Dugin’s ideology of Neo-Eurasianism, the chapter discusses Dugin’s political ventures. While Dugin was active in the (not very serious) National Bolshevik Party …
The Maryamiyya
This chapter is the first of two devoted to the later history of Schuon’s Sufi order, originally the Alawiyya. This was renamed the Maryamiyya as a consequence of a series of visions during the 1960s in which, Schuon believed, the Virgin Mary appeared to him and gave him a universal mission. The chapter covers events from the split with Gu”non in 1950 until Schuon’s last known major vision in 1966, and considers the consequence of these visions f…
Europe after 1968
Traditionalism
Perennialism
Against the Modern World
"Against the Modern World is the first history of Traditionalism, an important yet surprisingly little-known twentieth-century anti-modern movement. Comprising a number of often secret but sometimes very influential religious groups in the West and in the Islamic world, it affected mainstream and radical politics in Europe and the development of the field of religious studies in the United States, touching the lives of many individuals."--BOOK JA…
Al-Qaeda and the Nature of Religious Terrorism
This article examines the nature of religious terrorism, principally with reference to al-Qaeda. It argues that a distinction must be made between the ultimate aims and the immediate objectives of 'religious' terrorists, and that while the ultimate aims will be religiously formulated, the immediate objectives will often be found to be almost purely political. This distinction is illustrated with reference to such pre-modern religious terrorists a…
Saints and Sons
This first history of the Rashīdi Aḥmadiyya argues for a new explanation of the great Sufi revival of the eighteenth century, and also defines a new paradigm of development and change in Sufi orders. In his study of one widespread Sufi order over two centuries and three continents, the author identifies a repeating cycle in which a section of an order rises under a great shaykh, splits, and stabilizes. Though each great shaykh seems to remake the…
Inspiration and the Origins of Global Waves of Terrorism
This article examines the causes of terrorism at a global level. It also reexamines the chronology of terrorism since the nineteenth century. It argues that local causes cannot explain global waves, and that while ideology is a necessary ingredient in causing terrorism, it does not explain it. The article proposes that the most important cause of global waves of terror is the inspiring example for radicals everywhere of what are, or appear to be,…
Jihad, Modernity, and Sectarianism
This essay introduces this special issue of Nova Religio by examining the main varieties of jihad and the main varieties of Islamism, and also by exploring the overlap between scholarship on terrorism and scholarship on NRMs. Three unusual varieties of jihad are identified, all of which are relatively modern: anti-colonial jihad, pacifist jihad, and Islamist jihad. All three are explored further by other articles in this issue. This essay also ar…
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