Sedgwick, Mark

After studying history at Oxford University, Mark Sedgwick moved to Cairo, Egypt, where he taught rhetoric and worked on a doctorate on Sufi history, which he received from the University of Bergen in Norway. After his doctorate, he worked as an adjunct professor at the department of Arabic Studies at the American University in Cairo, and was briefly a visiting professor at the University of the Sorbonne in Paris. Now associate professor of history at the American University in Cairo, Sedgwick specializes in the history of Islam. Over the years, his research has taken him all over the Muslim w...