Tage Lindbom
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Malmö
Malmö , in the southernmost province of Scania, is the third most populous city in Sweden, after Stockholm and Gothenburg.Malmö is the seat of Malmö Municipality and the capital of Skåne County...
- 2001), PhD in Political science, who was early in his life the party theoretician and director of the archives of the Swedish Social Democratic Party
Swedish Social Democratic Party
The Swedish Social Democratic Workers' Party, , contesting elections as 'the Workers' Party – the Social Democrats' , or sometimes referred to just as 'the Social Democrats' and most commonly as Sossarna ; is the oldest and largest political party in Sweden. The party was founded in 1889...
1938-1965, but later in his life he converted to Islam. He became a representative of the Traditional School and the Perennial philosophy
Perennial philosophy
Perennial philosophy is the notion of the universal recurrence of philosophical insight independent of epoch or culture, including universal truths on the nature of reality, humanity or consciousness .-History:The idea of a perennial philosophy has great...
. Lindbom has been called "the grand old man" of Swedish conservativism and is the author of more than 20 books on philosophy and religion. He was a contributor to the quarterly journal, Studies in Comparative Religion
Studies in Comparative Religion
Studies in Comparative Religion was a quarterly academic journal published from 1963–1987 that contained essays on the spiritual practices and religious symbolism of the world's religions. The journal was notable for the number of prominent Perennialists who contributed to it...
, which dealt with religious symbolism
Religious symbolism
Religious symbolism is the use of symbols, including archetypes, acts, artwork, events, or natural phenomena, by a religion. Religions view religious texts, rituals, and works of art as symbols of compelling ideas or ideals...
and the Traditionalist
Traditionalist School
The term Traditionalist School is used by Mark Sedgwick and other authors to denote a school of thought, also known as Integral Traditionalism or Perennialism to denote an esoteric movement developed by authors such as French metaphysician René Guénon, German-Swiss...
perspective.
Since the early 1960s Lindbom was a disciple of the Swiss metaphysician Frithjof Schuon
Frithjof Schuon
Frithjof Schuon, was a native of Switzerland born to German parents in Basel, Switzerland. He is known as a philosopher, metaphysician and author of numerous books on religion and spirituality....
, who is the foremost representative of sapiential esoterism in the modern world. Lindbom had an inner group of spiritual students in Sweden
Sweden
Sweden , officially the Kingdom of Sweden , is a Nordic country on the Scandinavian Peninsula in Northern Europe. Sweden borders with Norway and Finland and is connected to Denmark by a bridge-tunnel across the Öresund....
and is the author of the first esoteric commentary on the Koran in Swedish
Swedish language
Swedish is a North Germanic language, spoken by approximately 10 million people, predominantly in Sweden and parts of Finland, especially along its coast and on the Åland islands. It is largely mutually intelligible with Norwegian and Danish...
, entitled Encounter with the Koran.
Writings in English
- The Tares and the Good Grain: Or, The Kingdom of Man at the Hour of Reckoning (transl. of Agnarna och vetet), Mercer University PressMercer University PressMercer University Press, established in 1979, is a publisher that is part of Mercer University....
(UK), 1982, ISBN 9780865540798 / 0865540799. - The Myth of Democracy (transl. of Demokratin är en myt), Wm B Eerdmans Publishing Co, 1996, ISBN 0802840647 / 0-8028-4064-7.
- Lucifer (transl. of chapter from Bortom teologin), Every Branch in Me: Essays on the Meaning of Man, ed. Barry McDonald, World WisdomWorld WisdomWorld Wisdom is an independent publishing company established in 1980 in Bloomington, Indiana. World Wisdom publishes religious and philosophical texts, including the work of authors such as Frithjof Schuon, Seyyed Hossein Nasr, Titus Burckhardt, Ananda K...
, Bloomington, 2002. ISBN 0941532399 / 978-0941532396. Also published in Religion of the Heart: Essays Presented to Frithjof Schuon on His Eightieth Birthday, eds. Seyyed Hossein NasrSeyyed Hossein NasrSeyyed Hossein Nasr is an Iranian University Professor of Islamic studies at George Washington University, and a prominent Islamic philosopher...
and William StoddartWilliam StoddartWilliam Stoddart is a Scottish physician, author and "spiritual traveller", who has written several books on the philosophy of religions. He has been called a “master of synthesis” and is one of the important writers on the Perennial Philosophy in the present day. For many years he was assistant...
, Washington D.C., 1991. - Virtue and Morality (transl. of chapter from Mellan himmel och jord), The Underlying Religion: An Introduction to the Perennial Philosophy, eds. Martin LingsMartin LingsMartin Lings was an English Muslim writer and scholar, a student and follower of Frithjof Schuon, and Shakespearean scholar...
and Clinton Minnaar, World WisdomWorld WisdomWorld Wisdom is an independent publishing company established in 1980 in Bloomington, Indiana. World Wisdom publishes religious and philosophical texts, including the work of authors such as Frithjof Schuon, Seyyed Hossein Nasr, Titus Burckhardt, Ananda K...
, Bloomington, 2007. ISBN 978-1-933316-43-7. - “Frithjof Schuon and Our Times”, Sophia, Vol. 4, No. 2, 1998.
Books in French
- L'ivraie et le bon grain ou Le royaume de l'homme à l'heure des échéances, trad. du Suédois par Roger du Pasquier (transl. of Agnarna och vetet), Milano, 1976.
Books in German
- Atlantis : Idee und Wirklichkeit des Sozialismus (transl. of Efter Atlantis), Frankfurt am Main, 1955.
Books in Spanish
- La semilla y la cizaña: el reino del hombre al término del plazo; vérsión castellana de Alejandro Corniero Fernández-Baños (transl. of Agnarna och vetet), Madrid, 1980.
Books in Portuguese
- O Mito da Democracia (transl. of Demokratin är en myt), São Paulo, Ibrasa, 2006.
Books in Turkish
- Başaklar ve Ayrık Otları Modernliğin Sahte Kutsalları (transl. of Agnarna och vetet), İnsan Yayınları, Istanbul, 1997, 2003.
- Demokrasi miti (transl. of Demokratin är en myt), İnsan Yayınları, Istanbul, 1998. Transl. Ömer Baldik. ISBN 9755742255
Works in Swedish
- Efter Atlantis, Stockholm, 1951.
- Sancho Panzas väderkvarnar, Stockholm, 1962.
- Otidsenliga betraktelser, Stockholm, 1968.
- Mellan himmel och jord, Stockholm, 1970.
- Agnarna och vetet, Stockholm, 1974.
- Myt i verkligheten : en studie i marxism, Uppsala, 1977.
- Människoriket : Tankar om Västerlandets sekularisering, Uppsala, 1978.
- Jakobs dröm, Stockholm, 1978.
- Är religionen en socialutopi?, Borås, 1980.
- Riket är ditt, Stockholm, 1981.
- Tankens vägar, Borås, 1982.
- Omprövning, Borås, 1983.
- Den gyllene kedjan : falsk och äkta gnosis, Borås, 1984.
- Roosevelt och det andra världskriget, Borås, 1985.
- Bortom teologin, Borås, 1986.
- Fallet Tyskland, Borås, 1988.
- Mystik, Borås, 1990.
- Demokratin är en myt, Borås, 1991.
- Före solnedgången, Borås, 1993.
- Ett är nödvändigt, Borås, 1994.
- Modernismen, Borås, 1995.
- Konservatism i vår tid : Åtta idéhistoriska essäer, Borås, 1996.
- Västerlandets framväxt och kris, Skellefteå, 1999.
- I Frithjof Schuons fotspår, introduction by Ashk Dahlén, Stockholm, 2003 ISBN 91-518-4138-X
- Möte med Koranen, Minaret, 2003, nr. 3–4.
- Ljus i mörkret, Minaret, 2004, nr. 3–4.
See also
- Traditional School
- Frithjof SchuonFrithjof SchuonFrithjof Schuon, was a native of Switzerland born to German parents in Basel, Switzerland. He is known as a philosopher, metaphysician and author of numerous books on religion and spirituality....
- Kurt AlmqvistKurt AlmqvistKurt Almqvist , PhD in Romance Languages, Swedish poet, intellectual and spiritual figure, representative of the Traditionalist School and the Perennial philosophy. Almqvist was a life-long disciple of the Swiss metaphysician and spiritual guide Frithjof Schuon. He came into close contact with the...
- René GuénonRené GuénonRené Guénon , also known as Shaykh `Abd al-Wahid Yahya was a French author and intellectual who remains an influential figure in the domain of metaphysics, having written on topics ranging from metaphysics, sacred science and traditional studies to symbolism and initiation.In his writings, he...
- Seyyed Hossein NasrSeyyed Hossein NasrSeyyed Hossein Nasr is an Iranian University Professor of Islamic studies at George Washington University, and a prominent Islamic philosopher...
- Ivan AguéliIvan AguéliIvan Aguéli also named Sheikh 'Abd al-Hādī 'Aqīlī upon his acceptance of Islam, was a Swedish wandering Sufi, painter and author. As a devotee of Ibn Arabi, his metaphysics applied to the study of Islamic esoterism and its similarities with other esoteric traditions of the world...
- Ashk Dahlén
- William StoddartWilliam StoddartWilliam Stoddart is a Scottish physician, author and "spiritual traveller", who has written several books on the philosophy of religions. He has been called a “master of synthesis” and is one of the important writers on the Perennial Philosophy in the present day. For many years he was assistant...
- Whitall PerryWhitall PerryWhitall Nicholson Perry was born of old New England stock in Belmont, Massachusetts , on January 19, 1920. A quest for wisdom led him, as a young man, to travel out to the Far East...
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