Abd al-Wahid Yahya

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Abd al-Wahid Yahya is the Islamic name and pseudonym adopted by French metaphysician and esotericist René Guénon after his conversion to Islam and move to Egypt.

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instanceOf Muslim convert
Traditionalist School philosopher
esotericist
metaphysician
person
alsoKnownAs René Guénon
Shaykh Abd al-Wahid Yahya
birthName René Jean Marie Joseph Guénon
linked to: René Guénon
burialPlace Cairo, Egypt
linked to: Cairo
conversionContext after moving to Egypt
convertedTo Islam
countryOfCitizenship France
criticized materialism
modernism
secularism
dateOfBirth 1886-11-15
dateOfDeath 1951-01-07
ethnicGroup French
fieldOfWork comparative religion
esotericism
metaphysics
traditionalism
influenced Ananda K. Coomaraswamy
linked to: Ananda Coomaraswamy

Frithjof Schuon
Julius Evola
Martin Lings
Seyyed Hossein Nasr
Titus Burckhardt
languageOfWorkOrName Arabic
French
movedTo Cairo, Egypt
linked to: Cairo
movement Traditionalist School
notableIdea critique of the reign of quantity
doctrine of multiple states of being
primacy of metaphysical principles over modern science
notableWork Aperçus sur l'ésotérisme islamique et le taoïsme
Introduction générale à l'étude des doctrines hindoues
L'Homme et son devenir selon le Vêdânta
La Crise du monde moderne
Le Règne de la Quantité et les Signes des Temps
Orient et Occident
philosophicalView perennialism
placeOfBirth Blois, France
placeOfDeath Cairo, Egypt
linked to: Cairo
pseudonymOf René Guénon
religion Islam
residence Cairo, Egypt
linked to: Cairo
spouse Fatima (Egyptian wife)

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René Guénon pseudonym Abd al-Wahid Yahya