Titus Burckhardt

Titus Burckhardt (Ibrahim Izz al-Din after his Islamic name), a German Swiss, was born in Florence, Italy in 1908 and died in Lausanne, Switzerland in 1984.[1] He devoted all his life to the study and exposition of the different aspects of Wisdom tradition.

He was an eminent member of the "Traditionalist School" of twentieth-century authors. He was a frequent contributor to the journal Studies in Comparative Religion along with other prominent members of the school.[2]

Life

Burckhardt was the scion of a patrician family of Basel. He was the great-nephew of the art-historian Jacob Burckhardt and the son of the sculptor Carl Burckhardt. Titus Burckhardt was a contemporary of Frithjof Schuon – leading exponent of traditionalist thought in the twentieth century – and the two spent their early school days together in Basel around the time of the First World War. This was the beginning of an intimate friendship and harmonious intellectual and spiritual relationship that was to last a lifetime.

Burckhardt was, as his grandfather, a connoisseur of Islamic art, architecture and civilisation. He compiled and published work from the Sufi masters: Ibn Arabi (1165–1240), Abd-al-karim Jili (1365–1424) and Muhammad al-Arabi al-Darqawi (1760–1823).

Bibliography

Books of Titus Burckhardt:[3]

Books in German

Books in French

Books in English

See also

References

  1. ↑ "Titus Burckhardt: Biography, Bibliography, Resources". World wisdom. Retrieved 2014-08-06.
  2. ↑ "Titus Burckhardt Author Page". Studies in Comparative Religion. Retrieved 2014-08-06.
  3. ↑ "Titus Burckhardt Bibliography". Retrieved 2014-08-06.
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