A new book gives English translations of a selection of the writings on Islam of Ivan Aguéli. It is Ivan Aguéli: Sensation of Eternity: Selected Writings, edited by Oliver Fotros. ISBN 978-9151985091, $13.99 on Amazon.
The writings translated are
- Notes on Islam (from L'Initiation, 1902)
- Feminism (from Il Convito, 1904)
- From La Gnose (1911):
- Pages dedicated to Mercury (incl. Pure Art)
- Pages dedicated to the Sun
- Universality in Islam
- Islam and Anthropomorphic Religions
- Al Malamatiyyah
- From L'Encyclopédie contemporaine illustrée:
- On the principles of Architecture and Sculpturing (1912)
- The 29th Exhibition of Le Salon des Independantes (1913)
- La Section d’Or – the Exhibition at Gallery La Boétie (1913)
- Others
- On Western Art
- On Europeans and Muslims
The writings from La Gnose were reprinted in French in the collection published by Archè in 1988, and Universality in Islam has now been translated twice into English, and Pure Art once, but all the other articles have never been reprinted, let alone translated. A major achievement for the study and understanding of Aguéli.
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