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Read Henry Corbin instead if you want to learn about Islam.

Guenon threw a hissy at Corbin because Corbin actually succeeded in academia, while rejecting the delusion of a transcendental unity of world religions, and actually knew classical Arabic, as well as classical and modern Persian, and was fully immersed in the culture he wrote about (Persian Shi'a mysticism).

When you read about Guenon's time in Egypt he was more or less a loner with few real Egyptian contacts.

Henry Corbin was the real deal.