Traditionalism: The Radical Project for Restoring Sacred Order - Hardcover

Sedgwick, Mark

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0197683762 ISBN 13: 9780197683767

Publisher: Oxford University Press, 2023

Synopsis

Traditionalism is a shadowy philosophy that has influenced much of the twentieth century and beyond. It is a worldview that rejects modernity and instead turns to mystical truth, perennialism, and tradition as its guide. Mark Sedgwick, one of the world's leading scholars of Traditionalism, presents a major new intellectual history, pulling back the curtain on the foundations of Traditionalist philosophy and its major proponents. Traditionalism provides an expansive guide to this important school of thought--one that is little-known and even less understood--and shows how pervasive these ideas have become.

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About the Author

Mark Sedgwick trained as a historian at Oxford University, taught for many years at the American University in Cairo, and finally moved to Denmark, where he is Professor of Arab and Islamic Studies at Aarhus University. He is also Chair of the Nordic Society for Middle Eastern Studies. His work focuses primarily on Islam, Sufism, Traditionalism, terrorism, and radicalization, and he is known especially for his book Against the Modern World: Traditionalism and the Secret Intellectual History of the Twentieth Century.

Edition details

• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Publication date: 2023
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0197683762
• ISBN 13: 9780197683767
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 424