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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 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 world and to countries where there are Muslim minorities, from Singapore to Europe and America. As well as many articles, he has published three books, two of which have been translated into several languages.

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Looking for a really good one-stop book on Islam and Muslims to recommend to friends and relations? Islam & Muslims is up-to-date, well-informed, insightful, and sympathetic without being evasive. - Michael Cook, author of The Koran: A Very Short IntroductionIslam & Muslims is really very, very good. I can attest that I truly enjoyed reading it, taking great satisfaction in the way that it managed time after time to get it right . - L. Carl Brown, Garrett Professor in Foreign Affairs Emeritus, Princeton UniversityMark Sedgwick s Islam & Muslims is an accessible and informative survey of the way Islam is actually practiced today, written in a refreshingly direct style. It will appeal especially to the general reader seeking a knowledgeable but nontechnical view of Muslim societies.A user-friendly book that is beneficial to a popular audience....It is particularly useful for non-Muslims who are newly encountering Muslim communities in the West or are traveling in or moving to a Muslim-majority country....Islam & Muslims is one of the best books of its kind in English to date. - Journal of Shi'a Islamic Studies

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