/lit/ - Literature

>>11447287
>Would you say that most of his ideas can also be found in Guenon?
There are "points of convergence" in their ideas, you could say. I see Guenon's writings as metaphysics looking down toward religion, and Schuon as religion looking upward toward metaphysics. Schuon places a far greater emphasis on ethics, on prayer, on beauty etc, and endeavors to show these things in a metaphysical light, often his explanations are quite inspired and clever. Still, I prefer Guenon's writing by far, his books have actually triggered intense spiritual experience for me, hard as that might be to believe for people who consider his writing to be "dry". Like I've said, though, I've grown to respect Schuon.

>>11026354
The Study Quran is by some accused of being "too perennialist", but I haven't read it so I don't know. I've been reading from the Yusuf Ali translation and I personally don't always find his commentary all that insightful. It's perhaps good for a basic level reading.
>>11025723
Mashalla, brother. I became Muslim about a month ago.
>>11025356
Good point. I don't have the Guenon chart on my phone otherwise I would post it. Here's a short text on the exoteric-esoteric distinction:
http://www.fatuma.net/text/Haqiqa_and_Sharia_in_Islam_by_Rene_Guenon.pdf
Here's an exchange of letters between an Islamic Traditionalist and a Christian critical of traditionalism, specifically debating over the idea of non-dualism (I particularly enjoyed this exchange):
http://www.sacredweb.com/online_articles/sw17_bolton-upton.pdf
I'll try to find more texts to include next time. For now, people should just google some of the authors I've lister and read whatever interests them.