Ivan Aguéli

Ivan Aguéli (‘Abd al-Hadi Aqhili) (1869-1917)  was a Swedish painter and author. He was the initiator of René Guénon into Sufism and an early Western expositor of the metaphysics of Ibn Arabi. Aside fom his reputation as a creative post-Impressionist painter and as a somewhat eccentric traveler in the tradition of the Malamatiyyah, he is credited with identifying similarities between Sufi and Swedenborgian metaphysics. Aguéli’s article “Universality in Islam”, appears in the World Wisdom book Universal Dimensions of Islam.