All the books and authors on this page are recommended. Those especially recommended for spiritual seekers are marked S . Those especially recommended for political readers are marked P . Those most suitable for academics and researchers are marked R . Follow the links below for current editions and/or translations into English. A link from a title brings up a recommended current edition (not necessarily the one given in the bibliography). A link from a name brings up all currently-available books in English by the author, recommended as a major Traditionalist. It is the author that is recommended, not all the books and editions that are linked to. If only a title in a language other than English is linked, no English translation is known. English-language links are usually to Amazon.com. Readers in Canada or the UK should use the ISBN from Amazon.com and then search under it at Amazon.ca or Amazon.co.uk. This bibliography is based on that in Against the Modern World . Books not currently in print are not listed. Books not included in the bibliography of Against the Modern World are labeled as New!

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• Accart, Xavier,ed. L'Ermite de Duqqi: René Guénon en marge des milieux francophones égyptiens . Milan: Archè, 2001. R
• André, Marie-Sophie and Christophe Beaufils. Papus, biographie: la Belle Epoque de l'occultisme . Paris: Berg International, 1995. R
• Aslan, Adnan. Religious Pluralism in Christian and Islamic Philosophy: The Thought of John Hick and Seyyed Hossein Nasr . Richmond: Curzon, 1998.

 

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• Baker, Rob, and Gray Henry, eds. Merton & Sufism: The Untold Story . Louisville: Fons Vitae, 1999.
• Blanch, Lesley. The Wilder Shores of Love . London: John Murray, 1955.
• Bonaud, Christian. L'Imam Khomeyni, un gnostique méconnu de XXe siècle . Beirut: Al-Bouraq, 1997.
• Brown,  Joseph Epes. The Sacred Pipe: Black Elk's Account of the Seven Rites of the Oglala Sioux . Norman, University of Oklahoma Press, 1953. S
• Brudny, Yitzhak M. Reinventing Russia: Russian Nationalism and the Soviet State, 1953-91 . Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1998. R
• Bryan, G. McLeod. Voices in the Wilderness: Twentieth-Century Prophets Speak to the New Millennium . Macon: Mercer University Press, 1999. R
• Buchta, Wilfried. Who Rules Iran? The Structure of Power in the Islamic Republic . Washington, DC: Washington Institute for Near East, 2000. R
• Burckhardt, Titus . Fez: City of Islam . Cambridge: Islamic Texts Society, 1992. S

 

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• Camicas, Yves, and Claude Camicas. Les gens du blâme: une secte au quotidien . Milan: Archè, 1995. S R
• Campbell, Bruce F. Ancient Wisdom Revived: A History of the Theosophical Movement . Berkeley: University of California Press, 1980. R
• Chacornac, Paul. The Simple Life of Rene Guenon . 1958.
• Christensen, Damascene. Not of this World: The Life and Teachings of Fr. Seraphim Rose, Pathfinder to the Heart of Ancient Christianity . Forestville, CA: Fr Seraphim Rose Foundation, 1993. S
• Coomaraswamy, Ananda Kentish . S
• A New Approach to the Vedas: An Essay in Translation and Exegesis . London: Luzac, 1933.
• The Transformation of Nature in Art . Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1934.
• Hinduism and Buddhism . New York: Philosophical Library, 1941. S

 

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• Eberhardt, Isabelle. Departures: Selected Writings Translated from the French . San Francisco: City Lights, 1994.
• Eliade, Mircea . History of Religious Ideas (Paris: Payot, 1948). R
• Ellwood, Robert. The Politics of Myth: A Study of C. G. Jung, Mircea Eliade, and Joseph Campbell . Albany: SUNY Press, 1999. R
• Evola, Julius . S P
• The Yoga of Power: Tantra, Shakti, and the Secret Way . 1926.
• The Hermetic Tradition: Symbols and Teachings of the Royal Art . 1931. S
• Revolt Against the Modern World . 1934. P
• The Mystery of the Grail: Initiation and Magic in the Quest for the Spirit . 1937.
• Ride the Tiger: A Survival Manual for the Aristocrats of the Soul . 1961. P

 

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• Forest, James H. Living with Wisdom: A Life of Thomas Merton . Maryknoll, NY: Orbis, 1991.
• Goodrick-Clarke, Nicholas.
• The Occult Roots of Nazism: The Ariosophists of Austria and Germany, 1890-1935 . Wellingborough: Aquarian Press, 1985. R
• Black Sun: Aryan Cults, Esoteric Nazism, and the Politics of Identity . New York: New York University Press, 2002.

 

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• Guénon, René .
• Introduction to the Study of the Hindu Doctrines . 1921.
• Theosophy: History of a Pseudo-Religion . 1921.
• The Spiritist Fallacy . 1923.
• East and West . 1924.
• The Esoterism of Dante . 1924.
• Man and His Becoming According to the Vedanta . 1925.
• The Crisis of the Modern World . 1927. S
• The King of the World . 1927.
• Spiritual Authority and Temporal Power . 1929.
• The Symbolism of the Cross . 1931. S
• The Great Triad . 1946.
• The Reign of Quantity & the Signs of the Times . 1945. S

 

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• Hahn, Lewis E, ed. The Philosophy of Seyyed Hossein Nasr . Chicago: Open Court, 2001. R

 

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• Johnson, K. Paul.
• The Masters Revealed: Madame Blavatsky and the Myth of the Great White Lodge . Albany: SUNY Press, 1994.
• Initiates of Theosophical Masters . Albany: SUNY Press, 1995.

 

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• Lings, Martin . A Moslem Saint of the Twentieth Century . London: Allen & Unwin, 1961. S

 

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• Mayer, Jean-François. Confessions d'un chasseur de sectes . Paris: Cerf, 1990.
• Merton, Thomas. The Seven Storey Mountain . New York: Harcourt, Brace, 1946. S

 

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• Nasr, Seyyed Hossein . Ideals and Realities of Islam . New York: Praeger, 1966. S
• Neihardt, John. Black Elk Speaks . New York, W. Morrow, 1932. S

 

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• New! Oldmeadow, Harry. Traditionalism: Religion in the Light of the Perennial Philosophy . Sri Lanka Institute of Traditional Studies, 2000.

 

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• Quinn, William W. The Only Tradition . Albany: SUNY Press, 1996.

 

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• Rawlinson, Andrew. The Book of Enlightened Masters: Western Teachers in Eastern Traditions . Chicago: Open Court Press, 1997. R
• Rennie, Bryan S, ed. Changing Religious Worlds: The Meaning and End of Mircea Eliade . Albany: SUNY Press, 2000. R
• Ro'i, Yaacov. Muslim Eurasia: Conflicting Legacies . London: Frank Cass, 1995. R

 

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• Schumacher, E. F.
• Small is Beautiful: Economics as if People Mattered . 1973.
• A Guide for the Perplexed . 1977. S
• Schuon, Frithjof .
• Transcendent Unity of Religions . 1948. S
• Understanding Islam . 1961. S
• Sebottendorf, Rudolf von. Practice of the Ancient Turkish Freemasons . 1924.
• Shenfield, Stephen D. Russian Fascism: Traditions, Tendencies, and Movements . New York: M. E. Sharpe, 2000. R
• Skali, Faouzi. La voie soufie . Paris: Albin Michel, 1995. S R
• Smith, Huston.
• The Religions of Man / The World's Religions: Our Great Wisdom Traditions

1958. S
• Beyond the Post-Modern Mind . New York: Crossroad, 1982. S
• Stevenson, David. The Origins of Freemasonry: Scotland's Century, 1590-1710 . Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1988. R

 

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• New! Torgovnick, Marianna. Primitive Passions: Men, Women, and the Quest for Ecstasy . Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1998. R

 

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• Washington, Peter. Madame Blavatsky's Baboon: A History of the Mystics, Mediums and Misfits who brought Spiritualism to America . New York: Schocken Books, 1995. S R
• Wasserstrom, Steven M. Religion after Religion: Gershom Scholem, Mircea Eliade, and Henry Corbin at Eranos . Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1999. R

 

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• Zarcone, Thierry. Mystiques, philosophes et francs-maçons en Islam: Riza Tevfiq, penseur ottoman (1868-1948), du soufisme a la confrérie . Paris: Institut français d'études anatoliennes d'Istanbul, 1993. R
• Zoccatelli, PierLuigi. Le lièvre qui rumine: Autour de René Guénon, Louis Charbonneau-Lassay et la Fraternité du Paraclet . Milan: Archè, 1999. R