Ali Qadir

I am Professor of Sociology, with an abiding interest in the scientific study of mysticism, sociology of religion, sociology of knowledge, and critical realism.

Director TRELIS - Tampere Research Group on Religion & Society

Director PRISM - Program in the Study of Mysticism

Project Leader MISTIC - Mysticism in Society

Mysticism, Sociology of religion, sociology of knowledge, critical realism

Member, Steering Committee, Templeton Religion Trust (2021-24)

Chair, Westermarck Society - Finnish Sociological Association (2023)

Academic Coordinator - Masters Degree Program in Global & Transnational Sociology (2017-24)

Mysticism and society

Heresy

Religion in society

Social theory - critical realism

Mysticism, Sociology of religion, sociology of knowledge, critical realism

Qadir, Ali. 2025 (forthcoming). “Mystics (in)action: Mirzā Ghulām Aḥmad’s political organization and the misrecognition of mystics in modern Islam”. In David Odorisio (ed) Mysticism and the Margins: From African Diasporic Traditions to the Psychedelic Reformation. Cham: Springer.

Qadir, Ali and Tatiana Tiaynen-Qadir. 2024. “Demystifying mysticism: A critical realist approach”. Religions Special Issue: Mysticism Reloaded 15: 1410.

Tiaynen-Qadir, Tatiana and Ali Qadir. 2022. Symbols and myth-making in modernity: Deep culture in art and action. London: Anthem Press

Qadir, Ali, and Pertti Alasuutari. 2022. "The Discursive Side of Sociological Institutionalism in the Study of Religion." Method & Theory in the Study of Religion: 1-23

Qadir, Ali. 2021. "Deconstruction of religious thought in Islam: Iqbal and the Ahmadiyya." The Muslim World 111 (3): 488-510

Alasuutari, Pertti, and Ali Qadir. 2019. Epistemic Governance: Social Change in the Modern World. Cham: Palgrave Macmillan.

Qadir, Ali. 2016. "Higher education, the global governors, and epistemic governance." Studia Humanitatis Borealis 4 (1): 28–35

Alasuutari, Pertti, and Ali Qadir, eds. 2014. National Policy-Making: Domestication of Global Trends. London: Routledge.