Chapter seven   is the first of two devoted to the later history of Schuon's Sufi order, originally the Alawiyya. This was renamed the Maryamiyya as a consequence of a series of visions during the 1960s in which, Schuon believed, the Virgin Mary appeared to him and gave him a universal mission. 

• The chapter covers events from the split with Guénon in 1950 until Schuon's last known major vision in 1966, and considers the consequence of these visions for Schuon and for the Maryamiyya. 
• It ends with a discussion of Schuon's most important follower, Seyyed Hossein Nasr, and of Traditionalism in Iran up to the Islamic Revolution of 1979.

Further reading

• Frithjof Schuon
• Transcendent Unity of Religions (1948)
• Understanding Islam (1961)
• All currently available works of Frithjof Schuon
• Seyyed Hossein Nasr, Ideals and Realities of Islam . New York : Praeger, 1966.
• All currently available works of Seyyed Hossein Nasr
• Lewis E. Hahn, ed, The Philosophy of Seyyed Hossein Nasr . Chicago : Open Court , 2001.

Suggested websites

• Religio Perennis (main site of Maryamiyya today)
• Seyyed Hossein Nasr Foundation (Nasr's current thought)

Other resources

• Additional notes to chapter 7
• Bibliography of Frithjof Schuon
• Bibliography of Seyyed Hossein Nasr