Chapter four covers Guénon's biography from a series of disasters in 1927-28 that led to his emigration to Egypt in 1930 until the start of the Second World War.

• It examines Guénon's life in Egypt and the nature of his Islam, and the impact of Egypt and Islam on Traditionalism. 
• As well as lying behind future developments in French Freemasonry, this impact resulted in the formation of two Traditionalist religious groups, one short-lived and Catholic (the Fraternity of the Cavaliers of the Divine Paraclete) and one long-lived and Islamic, a European branch of an Algerian Sufi order--the Alawiyya--under Frithjof Schuon, assisted by Titus Burckhardt (1908-84). 
• The chapter covers Schuon's biography and the history of his Alawiyya up to 1943.

Further reading

• Xavier Accart, L'Ermite de Duqqi: René Guénon en marge des milieux francophones égyptiens . Milan : Archè, 2001.
• Martin Lings, A Moslem Saint of the Twentieth Century . London : Allen & Unwin, 1961.
• Titus Burckhardt, Fez: City of Islam . Cambridge : Islamic Texts Society, 1992.
• All currently available works of Titus Burckhardt
• All currently available works of  Martin Lings  

Suggested websites

• Frithjof-schuon.com (texts abd biography) 

Other resources

• Additional notes to chapter 4
• Errata
• Bibliography of Martin Lings
• Bibliography of Frithjof Schuon  
• Bibliography of Titus Burckhardt