Abd al-Wahid Yahya
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Abd al-Wahid Yahya is the Islamic name and pseudonym adopted by French metaphysician and esotericist René Guénon after his conversion to Islam and move to Egypt.
All labels observed (1)
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| Abd al-Wahid Yahya canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T6901074 — resolving that mention is where its identity was fixed. The disambiguator weighed these candidate entities and picked the highlighted one (or “None”, minting a new entity). This is how homonymy is resolved: the same surface form can point to different entities.
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Abd al-Wahid Yahya Context triple: [René Guénon, pseudonym, Abd al-Wahid Yahya]
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Abd al-Hadi
Abd al-Hadi is an Arabic family name historically associated with notable political and social figures in the Middle East.
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Ahmad al-Khatib
Ahmad al-Khatib was a Syrian politician who briefly served as interim President of Syria following the 1970 Corrective Movement before being succeeded by Hafez al-Assad.
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C.
Saʿīd ibn Yūsuf al-Fayyūmī
Saʿīd ibn Yūsuf al-Fayyūmī, better known as Saadia Gaon, was a prominent 10th-century Jewish philosopher, exegete, and Gaon of the Sura academy, renowned for his works on Jewish law, grammar, and rational theology.
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Abdel Hakim
Abdel Hakim is the given name of Abdel Hakim Amer, a prominent Egyptian military officer and political figure during the Nasser era.
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Abd al-Karim al-Jili
Abd al-Karim al-Jili was a prominent 14th–15th century Sufi mystic and philosopher best known for his metaphysical work "Al-Insan al-Kamil" ("The Perfect Man"), which elaborates on and systematizes Ibn Arabi’s doctrine of divine unity and human perfection.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
NED2
Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Abd al-Wahid Yahya Target entity description: Abd al-Wahid Yahya is the Islamic name and pseudonym adopted by French metaphysician and esotericist René Guénon after his conversion to Islam and move to Egypt.
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A.
Abd al-Hadi
Abd al-Hadi is an Arabic family name historically associated with notable political and social figures in the Middle East.
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B.
Ahmad al-Khatib
Ahmad al-Khatib was a Syrian politician who briefly served as interim President of Syria following the 1970 Corrective Movement before being succeeded by Hafez al-Assad.
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C.
Saʿīd ibn Yūsuf al-Fayyūmī
Saʿīd ibn Yūsuf al-Fayyūmī, better known as Saadia Gaon, was a prominent 10th-century Jewish philosopher, exegete, and Gaon of the Sura academy, renowned for his works on Jewish law, grammar, and rational theology.
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D.
Abdel Hakim
Abdel Hakim is the given name of Abdel Hakim Amer, a prominent Egyptian military officer and political figure during the Nasser era.
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E.
Abd al-Karim al-Jili
Abd al-Karim al-Jili was a prominent 14th–15th century Sufi mystic and philosopher best known for his metaphysical work "Al-Insan al-Kamil" ("The Perfect Man"), which elaborates on and systematizes Ibn Arabi’s doctrine of divine unity and human perfection.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
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| instanceOf |
Muslim convert
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Traditionalist School philosopher ⓘ esotericist ⓘ metaphysician ⓘ person ⓘ |
| alsoKnownAs |
René Guénon
NERFINISHED
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Shaykh Abd al-Wahid Yahya NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| birthName | René Jean Marie Joseph Guénon NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| burialPlace | Cairo, Egypt NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| conversionContext | after moving to Egypt ⓘ |
| convertedTo | Islam NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | France ⓘ |
| criticized |
materialism
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modernism ⓘ secularism ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1886-11-15 ⓘ |
| dateOfDeath | 1951-01-07 ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup | French ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
comparative religion
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esotericism ⓘ metaphysics ⓘ traditionalism ⓘ |
| influenced |
Ananda K. Coomaraswamy
NERFINISHED
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Frithjof Schuon NERFINISHED ⓘ Julius Evola NERFINISHED ⓘ Martin Lings NERFINISHED ⓘ Seyyed Hossein Nasr NERFINISHED ⓘ Titus Burckhardt NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName |
Arabic
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French ⓘ |
| movedTo | Cairo, Egypt NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| movement | Traditionalist School NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableIdea |
critique of the reign of quantity
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doctrine of multiple states of being ⓘ primacy of metaphysical principles over modern science ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Aperçus sur l'ésotérisme islamique et le taoïsme
NERFINISHED
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Introduction générale à l'étude des doctrines hindoues NERFINISHED ⓘ L'Homme et son devenir selon le Vêdânta NERFINISHED ⓘ La Crise du monde moderne NERFINISHED ⓘ Le Règne de la Quantité et les Signes des Temps NERFINISHED ⓘ Orient et Occident NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| philosophicalView | perennialism ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth | Blois, France NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| placeOfDeath | Cairo, Egypt NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| pseudonymOf | René Guénon NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| religion | Islam ⓘ |
| residence | Cairo, Egypt NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| spouse | Fatima (Egyptian wife) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
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Instruction
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Input
Subject: Abd al-Wahid Yahya Description of subject: Abd al-Wahid Yahya is the Islamic name and pseudonym adopted by French metaphysician and esotericist René Guénon after his conversion to Islam and move to Egypt.
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