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René Guénon

1886 - 1951

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René Jean-Marie-Joseph Guénon (15 November 1886 – 7 January 1951), also known as Abdalwahid Yahia (Arabic: عبد الـوٰاحد يحيیٰ; ʿAbd al-Wāḥid Yaḥiā), was a French-Egyptian intellectual who remains an influential figure in the domain of metaphysics, having written on topics ranging from esotericism, "sacred science" and "traditional studies" to symbolism and initiation. In his writings, he claims to hand down eastern religious traditions and adapt them to western readers "while keeping strictly faithful to their spirit".Initiated into Islamic esotericism from as early as 1910 when he was 24, he mainly wrote and published in French, and his works have been translated into more than twenty languages; he also wrote in Arabic an article for the journal Al Marifah. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of René Guénon has received more than 1,096,913 page views. His biography is available in 38 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 34 in 2019). René Guénon is the 466th most popular writer (up from 522nd in 2019), the 555th most popular biography from France (up from 595th in 2019) and the 81st most popular French Writer.

René Guénon is most famous for his work in comparative religion and metaphysics.

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, René Guénon ranks 466 out of 5,755Before him are Publius Flavius Vegetius Renatus, Vasily Grossman, Wu Cheng'en, Enheduanna, Léopold Sédar Senghor, and Henry IV of Castile. After him are Wolfram von Eschenbach, Jacques Hébert, Grazia Deledda, William Makepeace Thackeray, Octavio Paz, and Boris Vian.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1886, René Guénon ranks 15Before him are Jean Arp, Marc Bloch, Manne Siegbahn, Karl Barth, Ernst Thälmann, and Karl Polanyi. After him are Gerda Wegener, Wilhelm Furtwängler, Karl von Frisch, Roman von Ungern-Sternberg, Gotthard Heinrici, and George Mallory. Among people deceased in 1951, René Guénon ranks 10Before him are Ferdinand Porsche, Arnold Schoenberg, Carl Gustaf Emil Mannerheim, Wilhelm, German Crown Prince, Abdullah I of Jordan, and Arnold Sommerfeld. After him are Otto Fritz Meyerhof, Hermann Broch, Prince Carl, Duke of Västergötland, August Horch, Otto Ohlendorf, and Maxim Litvinov.

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In France

Among people born in France, René Guénon ranks 555 out of 6,011Before him are Johnny Hallyday (1943), Maurice de Vlaminck (1876), Pérotin (1160), Amadeus VIII, Duke of Savoy (1383), Léon Walras (1834), and Theuderic I (485). After him are Luc Besson (1959), Childebert I (497), Antipope Clement VII (1342), Johann Heinrich Lambert (1728), Ansgar (801), and Jacques Hébert (1757).

Among WRITERS In France

Among writers born in France, René Guénon ranks 81Before him are Joris-Karl Huysmans (1848), Ève Curie (1904), Anaïs Nin (1903), William of Rubruck (1220), Jacques-Bénigne Bossuet (1627), and Nicolas Boileau-Despréaux (1636). After him are Jacques Hébert (1757), Boris Vian (1920), Jules Michelet (1798), Gaston Leroux (1868), Alfred de Musset (1810), and Charles, Duke of Orléans (1394).