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Titus Burckhardt
Born(1908-10-24)24 October 1908
Florence, Tuscany, Italy
Died15 January 1984(1984-01-15) (aged 75)
Lausanne, Vaud, Switzerland
NationalitySwiss
Notable work
  • Sacred Art in East and West: Its Principles and Methods
  • Introduction to Sufi Doctrine
  • Chartres and the Birth of the Cathedral
  • Art of Islam, Language and Meaning
  • Siena, City of the Virgin
SchoolPerennialism
Traditionalist School
Main interests
  • Alchemy
  • Anthropology
  • Esotericism
  • Cosmology
  • Islamology
  • Metaphysics
  • Sacred art
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Titus Burckhardt (24 October 1908 – 15 January 1984) was a Swiss writer and a leading member of the Perennialist or Traditionalist School. He was the author of numerous works on metaphysics, cosmology, anthropology, esoterism, alchemy, Sufism, symbolism and sacred art.

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Frithjof Schuon. Other important thinkers in this tradition include Titus Burckhardt, Martin Lings, Seyyed Hossein Nasr, Jean-Louis Michon, Marco Pallis...

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Burckhardt

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Suns in alchemy

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Science, and Art in Early Modern Europe. Routledge. 2001. p. 41. Titus Burckhardt. Alchemy: Science of the Cosmos, Science of the Soul. Penguin. 1967...

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Emerald Tablet

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as well as the theosophist Helena Blavatsky and the perennialist Titus Burckhardt. At the beginning of the 20th century, alchemical thought resonated...

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Maghreb

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from Spain to Tunisia, and represents a homogeneous cultural entity", Titus Burckhardt, Moorish Culture in Spain. Suhail Academy. 1997, p.7 Amin, Samir (1970)...

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Islam in Switzerland

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branch. Notable Swiss Muslims include Tariq Ramadan, Frithjof Schuon, Titus Burckhardt, Granit Xhaka, Xherdan Shaqiri and Isabelle Eberhardt. The largest...

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Frithjof Schuon

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primary school, Schuon met the future metaphysician and art specialist Titus Burckhardt, who remained a lifelong friend. From the age of ten, his search for...

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List of alchemists

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(1881-1970) Herbert Silberer (1882–1923) Manly P. Hall (1901–1990) Titus Burckhardt (1908–1984) Marie-Louise von Franz (1915–1998) Serge Hutin (1927–1997)...

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Shadhili

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Selections from the letters of al-Darqawi were translated by the Shadhili Titus Burckhardt and more recently by the scholar Aisha Abdurrahman Bewley. One of the...

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Ziryab

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encyclopedia. Routledge. p. 850. Fletcher,Moorish Spain 1992, pp. 43-45. Titus Burckhardt, "Die Maurische Kultur in Spanien. Flight of the Blackbird Robert W...

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Seth

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Kings, Vol. I: Creation to the Flood Sacred Art in the East and West, Titus Burckhardt, Suhail Academy Publishing, 1967, pg. 151: "Thus it is that the craft...

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Basmala

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Definition". Archived from the original on 2015-12-08. Retrieved 2011-11-18. Titus Burckhardt (2008) [1959]. An Introduction to Sufi Doctrine. World Wisdom Inc....

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Sufism

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 1750–1751. doi:10.1007/978-1-4614-6086-2_666. ISBN 978-1-4614-6087-9. Titus Burckhardt, Art of Islam: Language and Meaning (Bloomington: World Wisdom, 2009)...

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Seyyed Hossein Nasr

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Perennialist metaphysicians, notably Frithjof Schuon, Ananda Coomaraswamy, Titus Burckhardt, Martin Lings, and Marco Pallis. This school of thought has shaped...

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William Stoddart

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several books of the perennialists Frithjof Schuon (1907–1998) and Titus Burckhardt (1908–1984). Stoddart lived most of his life in London, England, before...

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Akbarism

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of the works of Ibn Arabi and the Akbari school by such scholars as Titus Burckhardt, Martin Lings, James Morris, William Chittick, Sachiko Murata, and...

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Aniconism in Islam

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is the validity of sightings of holy personages made during dreams. Titus Burckhardt sums up the role of aniconism in Islamic aesthetics as follows: The...

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Martin Lings

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Almqvist Ivan Aguéli René Guénon Seyyed Hossein Nasr The Matheson Trust Titus Burckhardt William Stoddart William Shakespeare A follower of the Alawiyya Sufi...

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Muhammad in Islam

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Three Online. Brill. https://doi.org/10.1163/1573-3912_ei3_COM_27599 Titus Burckhardt The Void in Islamic Art Studies in Comparative Religion, Vol. 16, No...

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Ibn Arabi

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1997. Pp. 115-42. Titus Burckhardt & Bulent Rauf (translator), Mystical Astrology According to Ibn 'Arabi (The Fons Vitae Titus Burckhardt Series) ISBN 1-887752-43-9...

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Christian art

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Sacre Arti, by Flaminio Gualdoni (editor), Tristan Tzara, S. Yanagi, Titus Burckhardt, Bologna, FMR, 2008, pp. 166–233. Bühren, Ralf van and Maciej Jan Jasiński...

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Little People of the Pryor Mountains

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University of Utah Press. p. 189. ISBN 978-0874808681. Burckhardt, Titus. The Essential Titus Burckhardt: Reflections on Sacred Art, Faiths, and Civilizations...

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List of converts to Islam

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continued to perform under the name "Art Blakey" throughout his career. Titus Burckhardt – Swiss writer and scholar. Berke – grandson of Genghis Khan, a Mongol...

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Sufi cosmology

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ISBN 9780674010178. "Sufi Understanding of Cosmology and Planes of Consciousness". Titus Burckhardt (2008). Introduction to Sufi Doctrine. p. 17. ISBN 9781933316505. Chittick...

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