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Translated by G. A. Malvicini
Elsewhere (in La Destra, in May 1972), we have discussed the necessary relationship of an authentic, non-makeshift Right with the concept of Tradition. In the sense discussed there, references to authors with a traditional orientation may be useful in dealing with certain complex problems. Here, however, we wish to provide an account of the ideas of René Guénon (1886-1951), who was regarded as the proponent of “integral Traditionalism.” Read more …
The Bad Samaritan:
A Glance at the Mohammed Mythos
Ibn al-Rawandi
Islamic Mysticism: A Secular Perspective
Buffalo, N.Y.: Prometheus Books, 2000
“Islam is in fact the last refuge for those conservative Western intellectuals who wish it were true that the Renaissance, the Enlightenment, the Industrial Revolution, the French Revolution, in short, ‘the modern world,’ had never come about. Islam is, indeed, the only remaining mental space[1] in which these events have not yet happened.” Read more …