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Ivan Aguéli

1869 - 1917

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Ivan Aguéli (born John Gustaf Agelii; May 24, 1869 – October 1, 1917), also named Shaykh ʿAbd al-Hādī al-ʿAqīlī (Arabic: شيخ عبد الهادی عقیلی) upon his conversion to Islam, was a Swedish wandering Sufi, painter and author. As a devotee of Ibn Arabi, his metaphysics applied to the study of Islamic esotericism and its similarities with other esoteric traditions of the world. He was one of the initiators of René Guénon into Sufism and founder of the Parisian Al Akbariyya society. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Ivan Aguéli has received more than 149,800 page views. His biography is available in 16 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 15 in 2019). Ivan Aguéli is the 1,469th most popular painter (down from 1,302nd in 2019).

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  • 150k

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  • 50.59

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 16

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 4.60

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.12

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among PAINTERS

Among painters, Ivan Aguéli ranks 1,469 out of 2,023. Before him are Marie Vassilieff, Unkei, Giuseppe De Nittis, Nikifor, Louis Hersent, and William Orpen. After him are Lygia Clark, Kristjan Raud, Nadezhda Udaltsova, Willem Roelofs, José de Madrazo y Agudo, and Anna Lea Merritt.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1869, Ivan Aguéli ranks 106. Before him are Józef Mehoffer, Johannes Linnankoski, Armas Järnefelt, Dmitri Egorov, Alice Hamilton, and Marcel Cachin. After him are Mary Agnes Chase, Daniel Salamanca Urey, Carlos Viegas Gago Coutinho, Georgette Leblanc, Henry Carton de Wiart, and Wilhelm Heye. Among people deceased in 1917, Ivan Aguéli ranks 76. Before him are Friedrich Robert Helmert, Federico Zandomeneghi, Judith Gautier, William Knox D'Arcy, Evelyn Baring, 1st Earl of Cromer, and Frank Muller. After him are Gaston Alibert, Bob Fitzsimmons, Aurel Popovici, Kristian Zahrtmann, José Enrique Rodó, and James Crafts.

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