A new open-access article investigates Sweden’s leading Traditionalist and his impact on the following generation. It is Gulnaz Sibgatullina and Benjamin R. Teitelbaum, “Sufi Traditionalism, The Radical Right, and Swedish Islam: The Work and Legacy of Tage Lindbom,” Journal of Religion in Europe 2025, available here.
For Tage Lindbom (1909–2001), see earlier posts here and here. Sibgatullina and Teitelbaum by providing a detailed biography of his life, and reviewing some of his most important books. Then—and this is what makes their article so interesting—they discuss the small group that gathered around him towards the end of his life, and its three most prominent members: the Rightist Jonas De Geer, the engaged Muslim Pierre Durrani, and the Muslim poet Mohamed Omar. All three had in common their roots in Lindbom and the fact that their subsequent views and careers took surprising twists. Well worth reading.
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