Talk:Titus Burckhardt

Conversion
Burckhardt is cited on many websites as a muslim convert. However, I find no information of that conversion here other than references to templates. I do read he studied islam, and especially islamic art, extensively, which is confirmed by many references to books and introductions to books that turn up when you google him. However, I don't see any evidence of his actual conversion anywhere. Could someone provide a source for (or, for that matter, against) that? Classical geographer 17:29, 22 September 2007 (UTC)


 * There must be references to his Islam in some of the existing biographies of Frithjof Schuon, but it may be enough to record that one of his translations (Universal Man, by Abd al-Karim al-Jili, Suhail Academy, Lahore, 2000) was published under both his Christian and Islamic names: Titus Burckhardt (Ibrahim `Izz-ud-Din). Anyway, I am not sure what the "sources" or "support" of a conversion to Islam would be! Desde la Torre (talk) 10:56, 22 September 2011 (UTC)

This article is badly unbalanced. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 75.11.152.138 (talk) 00:23, 27 July 2008 (UTC)

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Amendments
Bonjour Xeed.rice. Please excuse my mistakes in writing, English is not my mother-tongue.
 * You have added “Short description|Swiss academic (1908–1984)”. My dictionary says: “an academic person = esp. a teacher or student at a college or university”. Burckhardt has never taught so I propose: “Swiss traditionalist author”.
 * Concerning your improvement of the Infobox: 1) although Italy was a kingdom in 1908, it seems superfluous to me to mention it and it is certainly not a common practice in WP (see for example Elisabeth 2 or Nasser, both born in a kingdom); 2) you added “citation needed” after his Muslim name; as this information, in my opinion, doesn’t have any special interest, I delete it, but you are of course free to reintroduce it; 3) I add his “notable works”.
 * You deleted the “or” in the following passage: “the Perennialist or Traditionalist School”. Although I don’t think it is wrong to call it "Perennialist Traditionalist", it does not appear as such in any source; they all mention “Per. School” and “Tr. School” separately. I thus restore the previous version.
 * You linked “esoterism” to “Western esoterism”, but esoterism as studied by Burckhardt and all other Perennialists has no relation to the linked WP article; esoterism (or metaphysics) as such is neither Western nor Eastern. I thus delete the link.
 * You changed “Sufism” into “Sufi Islam”. One can speak of “Sunni Islam” or “Shia Islam” because they are branches of Islam, but Sufism is not a branch, it is Islam’s spiritual, mystical, esoteric, inner dimension, as you certainly know. I thus restore the previous version.
 * You linked “symbolism” to “Symbolism (arts)”: just read the first line of “Symbolism (arts)” and you will understand it has nothing to do with Burckhardt’s idea of symbolism, which is a sacred science, the language of pure metaphysics. I thus restore the previous version. Regards,--Hamza Alaoui (talk) 10:29, 14 February 2021 (UTC)