1886 - 1951
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, René Guénon ranks 466 out of 5,755. Before 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.
400 - 450
HPI: 67.06
Rank: 460
1905 - 1964
HPI: 67.06
Rank: 461
1500 - 1582
HPI: 67.01
Rank: 462
2300 BC - 2300 BC
HPI: 67.00
Rank: 463
1906 - 2001
HPI: 66.98
Rank: 464
1425 - 1474
HPI: 66.94
Rank: 465
1886 - 1951
HPI: 66.93
Rank: 466
1170 - 1220
HPI: 66.93
Rank: 467
1757 - 1794
HPI: 66.88
Rank: 468
1871 - 1936
HPI: 66.86
Rank: 469
1811 - 1863
HPI: 66.83
Rank: 470
1914 - 1998
HPI: 66.82
Rank: 471
1920 - 1959
HPI: 66.78
Rank: 472
Among people born in 1886, René Guénon ranks 15. Before 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 10. Before 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.
1886 - 1966
HPI: 69.83
Rank: 9
1886 - 1944
HPI: 69.14
Rank: 10
1886 - 1978
HPI: 68.34
Rank: 11
1886 - 1968
HPI: 67.61
Rank: 12
1886 - 1944
HPI: 67.32
Rank: 13
1886 - 1964
HPI: 66.95
Rank: 14
1886 - 1951
HPI: 66.93
Rank: 15
1886 - 1940
HPI: 66.86
Rank: 16
1886 - 1954
HPI: 66.84
Rank: 17
1886 - 1982
HPI: 66.64
Rank: 18
1886 - 1921
HPI: 66.33
Rank: 19
1886 - 1971
HPI: 66.31
Rank: 20
1886 - 1924
HPI: 65.56
Rank: 21
1875 - 1951
HPI: 74.94
Rank: 4
1874 - 1951
HPI: 74.57
Rank: 5
1867 - 1951
HPI: 74.19
Rank: 6
1882 - 1951
HPI: 72.16
Rank: 7
1882 - 1951
HPI: 69.23
Rank: 8
1868 - 1951
HPI: 68.67
Rank: 9
1886 - 1951
HPI: 66.93
Rank: 10
1884 - 1951
HPI: 65.87
Rank: 11
1886 - 1951
HPI: 64.82
Rank: 12
1861 - 1951
HPI: 64.53
Rank: 13
1868 - 1951
HPI: 64.24
Rank: 14
1907 - 1951
HPI: 63.90
Rank: 15
1876 - 1951
HPI: 63.57
Rank: 16
Among people born in France, René Guénon ranks 555 out of 6,011. Before 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).
1943 - 2017
HPI: 67.03
Rank: 549
1876 - 1958
HPI: 67.02
Rank: 550
1160 - 1230
HPI: 66.99
Rank: 551
1383 - 1451
HPI: 66.99
Rank: 552
1834 - 1910
HPI: 66.98
Rank: 553
485 - 534
HPI: 66.94
Rank: 554
1886 - 1951
HPI: 66.93
Rank: 555
1959 - Present
HPI: 66.93
Rank: 556
497 - 558
HPI: 66.93
Rank: 557
1342 - 1394
HPI: 66.90
Rank: 558
1728 - 1777
HPI: 66.89
Rank: 559
801 - 865
HPI: 66.89
Rank: 560
1757 - 1794
HPI: 66.88
Rank: 561
Among writers born in France, René Guénon ranks 81. Before 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).
1848 - 1907
HPI: 67.35
Rank: 75
1904 - 2007
HPI: 67.22
Rank: 76
1903 - 1977
HPI: 67.12
Rank: 77
1220 - 1293
HPI: 67.11
Rank: 78
1627 - 1704
HPI: 67.11
Rank: 79
1636 - 1711
HPI: 67.08
Rank: 80
1886 - 1951
HPI: 66.93
Rank: 81
1757 - 1794
HPI: 66.88
Rank: 82
1920 - 1959
HPI: 66.78
Rank: 83
1798 - 1874
HPI: 66.73
Rank: 84
1868 - 1927
HPI: 66.59
Rank: 85
1810 - 1857
HPI: 66.57
Rank: 86
1394 - 1465
HPI: 66.41
Rank: 87