Gnostics, Taoists, and Sufis
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 23729296 |
|---|---|
| Authors | M Sedgwick (0000-0002-0560-8862, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2004 |
| Pages | 55-70 |
| Publication date | 2004-06-17 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | CHAPTER |
| Venue | Against the Modern World (SOURCE_BOOK) |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1093/0195152972.003.0004 |
| OpenAlex | W2494625754 |
| ISBN | 9780195152975 |
| Language | EN |
This chapter continues the early biography of Ren” Gu”non from 1909. It covers his membership in the Universal Gnostic Church and his Masonic contacts with Oswald Wirth, and ends with the dissolution of the Belle Epoque occultist milieu during the First World War. The chapter also examines the influence on Gu”non of the ideas of the imperialist Albert de Pouvourville and of the Sufi Ivan Agu”li, and the origins of de Pouvourville’s and Agu”li’s ideas. It finally compares Agu”li with two other early Western Sufis, Isabelle Eberhardt and Rudolf von Sebottendorff, and examines the nature of their conversions to Islam.
Art history · Biography · Islam · Theology · Historical, Religious, and Philosophical Studies · History · Medieval and Classical Philosophy · Philosophy · Religious Studies and Spiritual Practices
| Highly cited | No |
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