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Michel Valsan (d. 1974) was a Rumanian diplomat who became an important scholar, translator, and essayist, particularly on Islamic esoterism. Vâlsan lived in Paris for many years, and was closely associated with Frithjof Schuon but especially with René Guénon.
Mr. Valsan edited the main French traditionalist journal of the day, Études traditionnelles, for a number of years, and frequently contributed to its pages. He was also quite influential among a group of younger traditionalists in France. Vâlsan specialized in translating and interpreting the works of the great Sufi theoretician Ibn Arabi.
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In this article author Michel Valsan uses the recent French translation of Un Saint Musulman du Vingtième Siècle: Le Cheikh al-‘Alawī (A Sufi Saint of the Twentieth Century: Shaikh Ahmad al-Alawi) by Martin Lings, to discuss the life of its subject, the influential Algerian Sufi master, Shaikh Ahmed al' Alawi. Vâlsan focuses upon the "initiatic function" of the Shaikh as illustrated through some of the many visions that disciples had of him along with the prophetic presence of Jesus, who plays an important role in certain aspects of esoteric Islam.
| Notes on the Shaikh al-‘Alawi | Vâlsan, Michel | |
Vol. 5, No. 3. ( Summer, 1971)
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