Simon Sorgenfrei
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 338381 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Simon Sorgenfrei |
| NOMBRES | Simon |
| APELLIDO | Sorgenfrei |
| FIRMA | SORGENFREI S |
| AFILIACIONES | Södertörn University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-2206-238X |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 15 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 9 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 15 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2018 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2023 |
| ÍNDICE H | 2 |
The Early Institutionalization of State–Islam Relations in Sweden
With the case of Sweden as its focus, this article contributes to the research on state–Islam relations in Europe. From a comparative European perspective, it demonstrates that Sweden departs from what is generally presented as the common pattern when it comes to when, how and why state-Islam relations were first established. Previous theorising on this topic, primarily connected with Jonathan Laurence’s seminal work on state–Islam relations in E…
Salafi Sufism
The aim of this article is to analyse a local expression of the transnational Ahbash Sufi movement in light of recent scholarship on the relationship between Salafism and Sufism as well as Islamic neo-traditionalism. Some researchers have reacted against a dichotomous relationship between fundamentalism and Sufism, instead suggesting a continuum and a mutual interdependence. We aim to contribute to a developed understanding of the process whereby…
Revisiting Translations of the Qur'an into English by Aḥmadiyya Translators
Den fiktive Aguéli – Identifikationsobjekt och projektionsyta för unga manliga konvertiter till islam
Den fiktive Agueli : Identifikationsobjekt och projektionsyta for unga manliga konvertiter till islam
Målare, mystiker, muslim – Ivan Aguéli 1869–1917
Den stora estetiska ingivelsen – Om Ivan Aguélis Swedenborgläsningar
“Perhaps we see it in negative terms, but, ultimately, it is positive”
This article investigates how prominent preachers within Sweden’s most active puritan Salafi group, Islam.nu, relate to COVID-19. The article analyzes material published online between March 1, 2020, and July 31, 2020, which is herein divided into three categories: rhetorical responses, social responses, and theological responses. Salafism is often presented in academic literature and by the media as a current that is at odds with the majority so…
Muslimer i Sverige under stormaktstiden
Islamforskning i Sverige är liksom på andra håll i hög grad samtidsorienterad. Samtidigt finns intressant historiskt material som rör islam och muslimer i Sverige under historisk tid. Denna artikel behandlar några av de muslimer som kom att leva i Sverige under stormaktstiden. Ambitionen är inte främst att presentera biografiska data om dessa personer, utan att diskutera källäget och vidare forskningsbehov. Ett framträdande syfte med artikeln är …
How is one supposed to sleep when the Ka‘ba is over there?’
The aim of this article is to present data from the first study using interviews with Swedish hajj pilgrims, conducted during 2016 and 2017 by the Institute for Language and Folklore, Gothenburg; the Museum of World Culture, Gothenburg; Södertörn University, Stockholm; and Gothenburg Univetsity. Among the questions asked within the framework of the project were, for example, how Swedish Muslims experience the hajj ; how they prepare for the trip …
Branding Salafism
This article analyses the social media activity of Swedish Salafi missionaries in the light of theories about influencer marketing and branding. Making use of source material from the Instagram accounts of the preacher Anas Khalifa and the preachers Abdulwadud Frank, Abdullah as-Sueidi, and Moosa Assal, the last three of whom are associated with the organisation Islam.nu, this article investigates how social media can be used as tools for mission…
Mīrzā Ghulām Aḥmad and the Establishment of the Aḥmadiyya Jamāʿat from a Market Theory Perspective
In Terrains of Exchange: Religious Economies of Global Islam (2014), historian Nile Green suggests a theoretical framework that could be employed to analyse Muslim responses to colonialism. Especially he analyses how individual Muslims as well as Islamic organisations transformed themselves or developed as they struggled with each other in order to stake claims on an increasingly connected world. One such development was the ideology of Pan-Islam…
Crowdfunding Salafism. Crowdfunding as a Salafi Missionising Method
As is also the case in other parts of the world, Salafi interpretations of Islam appear to be on the rise in Sweden, especially among young people turning to Islam. One of the most active and visible missionising Salafi organisations in Sweden is called islam.nu. It is based in Stockholm but has a national outreach programme and a very active online presence. This article focuses on islam.nu and a dawa campaign called #karavanen (the Caravan) and…
Establishing Islam in Sweden
This article focuses on the history and establishment of the first Muslim congregation and organisationin Sweden, Turk-Islam Föreningen i Sverige för Religion och Kultur (Turk-Islamic Associationfor Religion and Culture), which was founded in the late 1940s by a small group of immigrants andrefugees of Tatar and Turkish origin. The community has been the object of earlier research (seeSvanberg & Westerlund 1999; Ståhlberg & Svanberg 2016; Sorgenf…
The Great Aesthetic Inspiration
Ivan Aguéli is known not only as an artist but also as Sweden’s first (famous) convert to Islam and as an initiate in the Sufi order Shadhiliyya-Arabiyya. Sufism’s role in Aguéli’s life and its significance for his theory of art and style of painting have been analyzed primarily by Viveca Wessel (1988). This article will instead analyze Aguéli’s relationship to the writings of Emanuel Swedenborg (1688–1772), which extends far back in his life, an…
Hidden or Forbidden, Elected or Rejected
The article analyses the background of a popular conception of Sufism as equivalent to ‘Islamic esotericism’ by tracing two different but sometimes confluent currents: reifications of Sufism within Western romanticist and modern environments, and the approach to it in Islamic reformist movements. A further aim is to nuance and problematize such understandings, making use of examples from both historical and contemporary Sufism. Finally, the artic…
Branding Salafism
This article analyses the social media activity of Swedish Salafi missionaries in the light of theories about influencer marketing and branding. Making use of source material from the Instagram accounts of the preacher Anas Khalifa and the preachers Abdulwadud Frank, Abdullah as-Sueidi, and Moosa Assal, the last three of whom are associated with the organisation Islam.nu, this article investigates how social media can be used as tools for mission…
Hidden or Forbidden, Elected or Rejected
The article analyses the background of a popular conception of Sufism as equivalent to ‘Islamic esotericism’ by tracing two different but sometimes confluent currents: reifications of Sufism within Western romanticist and modern environments, and the approach to it in Islamic reformist movements. A further aim is to nuance and problematize such understandings, making use of examples from both historical and contemporary Sufism. Finally, the artic…
Crowdfunding Salafism. Crowdfunding as a Salafi Missionising Method
As is also the case in other parts of the world, Salafi interpretations of Islam appear to be on the rise in Sweden, especially among young people turning to Islam. One of the most active and visible missionising Salafi organisations in Sweden is called islam.nu. It is based in Stockholm but has a national outreach programme and a very active online presence. This article focuses on islam.nu and a dawa campaign called #karavanen (the Caravan) and…
Hidden or Forbidden, Elected or Rejected
The article analyses the background of a popular conception of Sufism as equivalent to ‘Islamic esotericism’ by tracing two different but sometimes confluent currents: reifications of Sufism within Western romanticist and modern environments, and the approach to it in Islamic reformist movements. A further aim is to nuance and problematize such understandings, making use of examples from both historical and contemporary Sufism. Finally, the artic…
The Great Aesthetic Inspiration
Ivan Aguéli is known not only as an artist but also as Sweden’s first (famous) convert to Islam and as an initiate in the Sufi order Shadhiliyya-Arabiyya. Sufism’s role in Aguéli’s life and its significance for his theory of art and style of painting have been analyzed primarily by Viveca Wessel (1988). This article will instead analyze Aguéli’s relationship to the writings of Emanuel Swedenborg (1688–1772), which extends far back in his life, an…
Establishing Islam in Sweden
This article focuses on the history and establishment of the first Muslim congregation and organisationin Sweden, Turk-Islam Föreningen i Sverige för Religion och Kultur (Turk-Islamic Associationfor Religion and Culture), which was founded in the late 1940s by a small group of immigrants andrefugees of Tatar and Turkish origin. The community has been the object of earlier research (seeSvanberg & Westerlund 1999; Ståhlberg & Svanberg 2016; Sorgenf…
Revisiting Translations of the Qur'an into English by Aḥmadiyya Translators
Den fiktive Aguéli – Identifikationsobjekt och projektionsyta för unga manliga konvertiter till islam
Den fiktive Agueli : Identifikationsobjekt och projektionsyta for unga manliga konvertiter till islam
Målare, mystiker, muslim – Ivan Aguéli 1869–1917
Den stora estetiska ingivelsen – Om Ivan Aguélis Swedenborgläsningar
“Perhaps we see it in negative terms, but, ultimately, it is positive”
This article investigates how prominent preachers within Sweden’s most active puritan Salafi group, Islam.nu, relate to COVID-19. The article analyzes material published online between March 1, 2020, and July 31, 2020, which is herein divided into three categories: rhetorical responses, social responses, and theological responses. Salafism is often presented in academic literature and by the media as a current that is at odds with the majority so…
Muslimer i Sverige under stormaktstiden
Islamforskning i Sverige är liksom på andra håll i hög grad samtidsorienterad. Samtidigt finns intressant historiskt material som rör islam och muslimer i Sverige under historisk tid. Denna artikel behandlar några av de muslimer som kom att leva i Sverige under stormaktstiden. Ambitionen är inte främst att presentera biografiska data om dessa personer, utan att diskutera källäget och vidare forskningsbehov. Ett framträdande syfte med artikeln är …
How is one supposed to sleep when the Ka‘ba is over there?’
The aim of this article is to present data from the first study using interviews with Swedish hajj pilgrims, conducted during 2016 and 2017 by the Institute for Language and Folklore, Gothenburg; the Museum of World Culture, Gothenburg; Södertörn University, Stockholm; and Gothenburg Univetsity. Among the questions asked within the framework of the project were, for example, how Swedish Muslims experience the hajj ; how they prepare for the trip …
Branding Salafism
This article analyses the social media activity of Swedish Salafi missionaries in the light of theories about influencer marketing and branding. Making use of source material from the Instagram accounts of the preacher Anas Khalifa and the preachers Abdulwadud Frank, Abdullah as-Sueidi, and Moosa Assal, the last three of whom are associated with the organisation Islam.nu, this article investigates how social media can be used as tools for mission…
Mīrzā Ghulām Aḥmad and the Establishment of the Aḥmadiyya Jamāʿat from a Market Theory Perspective
In Terrains of Exchange: Religious Economies of Global Islam (2014), historian Nile Green suggests a theoretical framework that could be employed to analyse Muslim responses to colonialism. Especially he analyses how individual Muslims as well as Islamic organisations transformed themselves or developed as they struggled with each other in order to stake claims on an increasingly connected world. One such development was the ideology of Pan-Islam…
Crowdfunding Salafism. Crowdfunding as a Salafi Missionising Method
As is also the case in other parts of the world, Salafi interpretations of Islam appear to be on the rise in Sweden, especially among young people turning to Islam. One of the most active and visible missionising Salafi organisations in Sweden is called islam.nu. It is based in Stockholm but has a national outreach programme and a very active online presence. This article focuses on islam.nu and a dawa campaign called #karavanen (the Caravan) and…
Salafi Sufism
The aim of this article is to analyse a local expression of the transnational Ahbash Sufi movement in light of recent scholarship on the relationship between Salafism and Sufism as well as Islamic neo-traditionalism. Some researchers have reacted against a dichotomous relationship between fundamentalism and Sufism, instead suggesting a continuum and a mutual interdependence. We aim to contribute to a developed understanding of the process whereby…
The Early Institutionalization of State–Islam Relations in Sweden
With the case of Sweden as its focus, this article contributes to the research on state–Islam relations in Europe. From a comparative European perspective, it demonstrates that Sweden departs from what is generally presented as the common pattern when it comes to when, how and why state-Islam relations were first established. Previous theorising on this topic, primarily connected with Jonathan Laurence’s seminal work on state–Islam relations in E…
Philosophy (12 obras) · Islam (10 obras) · Political science (10 obras) · Theology (8 obras) · Religious studies (7 obras) · Sociology (7 obras) · History (5 obras) · Law (5 obras) · Islamic Studies and Radicalism (4 obras) · Media, Religion, Digital Communication (4 obras)