Isn’t this Guenon guy one of the inspirations of the anti-Semitic “New Right” in Europe? Didn’t he become a moslem of some kind?
You are asking the wrong person, ZC. I only heard of this guy a few days ago. And my only info about him thus far is from Wikipedia.
Wiki does report that Guénon (d. 1951) had an a/k/a: Abd al-Wahid Yahya. And famously, that the last word he uttered from this side of the Great Divide was: Allah!
So go figure.
What I find interesting is that there is another "Yahya" running around right now, in Turkey. Maybe pure coincidence.
Anyhoot, from what I can tell, he is a self-confessed great man of letters, a deep Muslim scholar, scientist and philosopher who goes by the name of Harun Yahya. [For details see: "Did Life on Earth Begin Suddenly and in Complex Forms?" in Divine Action and Natural Selection: Science, Faith and Evolution, J. Seckbach & R. Gorden, eds., Singapore: World Scientific Publishing, 2009.]
This particular Yahya has been running around with a Theory of Creation that is deeply disturbing to the secularizing tendencies of the Turkish university of recent times. Turkish society in general had been "secularizing," ever since Attaturk. I gather he wanted to see Turkey reincorporated into the orbit of Western civilization. Thus it wouldn't surprise that "modern biology" in Turkey subsequent to this transformative figure has been gradually embraced pretty much in the Western forms of Newtonian and Darwinian theory.
Haroun Yahya evidently disputes all such notions. He has a Creation Theory: It is to be found in the Cambrian Explosion (c. 500 million years B.C.)!
Suffice it to say Turkish Darwinists are in a tither. Where Attaturk "secularized" an Islamic society, Ergodan seems hell-bent on restoring Turkish society to its ancient, tribal roots in Islam....
But I surely digress. Thanks for your patience, dear Zionist Conspirator! And so much for writing!