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René Jean-Marie-Joseph Guénon (1886–1951) was a French thinker regarded as one of the pioneers of the traditionalist current of thought in the first half of the 20th century. Raised in a Catholic family, he began his education in religious schools and spent his youth immersed in various intellectual and metaphysical circles such as spiritualism, Freemasonry, and esotericism. In 1912, after embracing Islam, he adopted the name "Abdulwahid Yahya" and, following his affiliation with the Shadhiliyya