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The Traditionalist School is a group of 20th- and 21st-century thinkers who believe in the existence of a perennial wisdom or perennial philosophy, primordial and universal truths which form the source for, and are shared by, all the major world religions. The principal thinkers in this tradition are René Guénon, Ananda Coomaraswamy and Frithjof Schuon. Other important thinkers in this tradition include Titus Burckhardt, Martin Lings, Jean-Louis Michon, Marco Pallis, Huston Smith, Seyyed Hossein Nasr, Jean Borella, and Julius Evola.[note 1]

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  1. Lings & Minnaar 2007, p. xii.
  2. Kalin 2015.
  3. Oldmeadow 2010.
  4. Taylor 2008, p. 1270.
  5. Smith 1987, p. 554.
  6. Oldmeadow 2010, p. vii.
  7. Lings & Minnaar 2007, p. xiii.
  8. Daniel J Schwindt, The Case Against the Modern World: A Crash Course in Traditionalist Thought, 2016. https://www.amazon.com/Case-Against-Modern-World-Traditionalist/dp/153282534X/
  9. Schuon 1982, p. 8.
  10. Guénon rejected the term, because "it implies in his view a kind of sentimental attachment to a tradition which, most of the time, has lost its metaphysical foundation.[web 1][web 2]
  11. See Titus Burckhardt, "A Letter on Spiritual Method" in Mirror of the Intellect, Cambridge (UK), Quinta Essentia, 1987 (ISBN:0-946621-08-X), where a rather strict list is given.
  12. Guénon 2001, p. 48.
  13. Paul Furlong argues that ‘Evola’s initial writings in the inter-war period were from an ideological position close to the Fascist regime in Italy, though not identical to it.’ Over his active years, Furlong writes, he ‘synthesized’ spiritual bearings of writers like Guénon with his political concerns of the ‘European authoritarian Right’. Evola tried to develop a tradition different from that of Guénon and thus attempted to develop a ‘strategy of active revolt as a counterpart to the spiritual withdrawal favoured by Guénon.’ Evola, as Farlong puts it, wanted to have political influence both in the Fascist and Nazi regimes, something which he failed to achieve. See Furlong, Paul: Authoritarian Conservatism After The War Julius Evola and Europe, 2003.
  14. According to Wouter Hanegraaf, "modernity itself is in fact intertwined with the history of esotericism."[11] Western esotericism had a profound influence on Hindu and Buddhist modernisers, whose modernisations in turn had a deep impact on modern western spirituality. See: Michelis, Elizabeth De (2005). A History of Modern Yoga: Patanjali and Western Esotericism. A&C Black. ISBN 978-0-8264-8772-8. https://books.google.com/books?id=4HTUAwAAQBAJ. [12][13]
  15. Oxford University Press, Description: "Against the Modern World. Traditionalism and the Secret Intellectual History of the Twentieth Century" https://global.oup.com/academic/product/against-the-modern-world-9780195396010?cc=nl&lang=en&#
  16. Cf. among others his Aperçus sur l'ésotérisme chrétien (Éditions Traditionnelles, Paris, 1954) and Études sur la Franc-maçonnerie et le Compagnonnage (2 vols, Éditions Traditionnelles, Paris, 1964-65) which include many of his articles for the Catholic journal Regnabit.
  17. Cf. his Le Théosophisme, histoire d'une pseudo-religion, Paris, Nouvelle Librairie Nationale, 1921, and L'Erreur spirite, Paris, Marcel Rivière, 1923. Both books exist in English translation.
  18. Witness the works by Mahmoud Bina at the Isfahan University of Technology, the Malay scholar Osman Bakar, and the Ceylonese Ranjit Fernando. This is probably also related to the expansion of the Maryamiyya branch of the Shadhili Sufi order, as studied by Sedgwick, Against the Modern World, always within the pale of Sunni Islam. Cf. also a review by Carl W. Ernst: "Traditionalism, the Perennial Philosophy, and Islamic Studies," Middle East Studies Association Bulletin, vol. 28, no. 2 (December 1994), pp. 176-81. http://www.unc.edu/~cernst/Traditionalism.htm
  19. Mark Sedgwick, "Traditionalism in Iran" in Politica Hermetica, n° 16 (2002), p. 137
  20. Michel Valsan, Guénon’s work in Orient (excerpt) http://elkorg-projects.blogspot.com/2005/02/michel-vlsan-gunons-work-in-orient.html
  21. Davies & Lynch 2004, p. 322.
  22. Teitelbaum, Benjamin R. (2020-04-21) (in en). War for Eternity: The Return of Traditionalism and the Rise of the Populist Right. Penguin Books Limited. pp. 1–2. ISBN 978-0-14-199204-4. https://books.google.com/books?id=QdHADwAAQBAJ&q=war+for+eternity. 
  23. On Radio Courtoisie (20 May 2013), during the programme Le Libre Journal de la resistance française presented by Emmanuel Ratier and Pascal Lassalle.
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