Infobox philosopher region Western philosophy Western & Eastern philosophy Eastern br philosophies & esotericism s era 20th century philosophy color lightsteelblue image Rene guenon 1925.jpg image size 250px caption A 1925 studio photo portrait age age 1886 11 15 1925 7 1 . name Ren Jean Marie Joseph Gu non Abd al Wahid Yahya birth date Birth date 1886 11 15 birth place Blois , Loir et Cher , France death date Death date and age 1951 1 7 1886 11 15 death place Cairo , Egypt school tradition Advaita Vedanta , Sufism , Nondualism , Platonism main interests Metaphysics , Esotericism , Symbol ism, Mythology , Gnosis , Religious text s, Freemasonry , Mathematics , History , Society , Social criticism , Comparative religion notable ideas Critique of modernity from the perspective of ancient wisdom tradition s refounding of western culture western esotericism based on the still living Eastern world eastern ones influences Adi Shankara , Ibn Arabi , Ivan Agu li , Pseudo Dionysius the Areopagite , Laozi Lao Tse , Plato , Plotinus , Meister Eckhart influenced Frithjof Schuon , Michel Valsan , Titus Burckhardt , Martin Lings , Jean Louis Michon , Marco Pallis , Julius Evola , Huston Smith , Ananda Coomaraswamy , Charles le Gai Eaton , Olavo de Carvalho and See also many others signature Ren Gu non November 15, 1886 January 7, 1951 , also known as Shaykh Abd al Wahid Yahya was a France French author and intellectual who remains an influential figure in the domain of metaphysics , having written on topics ranging from metaphysics, sacred science ref Ren Gu non s works dealing with various aspects of sacred science are collected in the book which appeared in its first English translation as Fundamental Symbols the Universal Language of Sacred Science , Quinta Essentia, 1995, ISBN 0 900588 77 2, then, in another translation, as Symbols of Sacred Science , translated by Henry D. Fohr, Sophia Perennis, 2001, ISBN 0 900588 78 0. There were two original French editions, both under ... more details
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