RE: [evola_as_he_is] Mutti: Islam in the eyes of Julius Evola
--Would it
be too much to describe Mutti's article as a half-failed --attempt to reconcile Evola and Islam?
Evola’s immense learning ranged over the religions and
mythologies of the world, which he often used to make specific points. For
example, it could be possible to “reconcile” Evola and
Zoroastrianism with some justification, but he never called for mass
conversions. In other cases, his judgment seems somewhat odd if his thought is
carried beyond the limits he intended. For example, he thought highly of some
aspects of the Aztecs (probably the result of never having met one), but does
that reconcile Evola with human sacrifice?
The case of Guénon is somewhat complex in that he never “converted”
to Islam as that act is commonly understood. In fact, he was initiated into a
Sufi order years before his move to Egypt and his overt life as a Muslim. Thus
anyone today who approaches matters in the opposite sequence, that is by first
converting to Islam and then hoping to locate an initiatory centre, is likely
to be disappointed.
As for “European” Muslims … my ancestral home is
named “Salemi”, clearly a word of Arabic origin. However, in an age
dominated by clear thinking men, it never took root. So even if Evola does find
some things to admire in Islam, which may even be suitable to the Oriental and
African, for the European, it nevertheless involves a betrayal of the Western “spirit”.
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RE: the English translation of Mutti's article on 'Islam and Evola' Claudio Mutti has posted "Islam in the eyes of Julius Evola" (in English) on his web site: ...
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Which passage of Mutti's article, in which none of Evola's views on Islam are criticised, are you referring to? There are so many sects and sub-sects in Islam...
There is a significant hadith of which Evola uses – according to Mutti – an unreliable translation. Evola’s version: “The blood of the heroes is closer...
right near the end, Mutti says: "We take this opportunity to note that Evola probably mistook the Twelver-Imam Shi'a movement as a particular branch of the...
Ok, it's a criticism, but a most reverent, a most prudent ("probably"), almost embarrassed one. Mutti, as a Muslim, as an insider, as a scholar, is expected,...
--Would it be too much to describe Mutti's article as a half-failed --attempt to reconcile Evola and Islam? Evola’s immense learning ranged over the...
There is no need to try to "reconcile" Evola with Islam, for the simple reason that he never parted from Islam, and he never parted from Islam for the simple...
Sayed Muhammad al Naquib al-Attas (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Syed_Muhammad_Naquib_al-Attas), one of the foremost representatives of traditional Islamic...
To Guénon, "Conversion has nothing in common with any exterior and contingent change, whether arising simply from the moral domain..." However, he was not the...
Wishful thinking is one thing, intellectual dishonesty is quite another. Many more or less gross attempts by Arab Muslim circles have been made to hijack...
I think the failure is Evola's rather than Mutti's. I mean, Mutti cannot be blamed for anything except excessive reverence for the supposed 'Traditionalists',...
Speaking of which: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moorish_Orthodox_Church_of_America ... cannot be ... only as a ... the erstwhile ... occult subtext ... ...
As far as we know it has never been recorded whether or not he actually did "formally" convert or not. One could assume that he did because a Moslem father...
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Whether he converted either formally or for "appearances sake" he still needed what only Islam could offer him and thereby became "submissive" to that path...
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