Michel Valsan

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Michel Valsan (born in Romania, 19- ; death in Paris (France), 1974) Romanian islamologist and sufi shaykh under the name of Mustafa 'Abd al-'Aziz. Reader of René Guénon and former disciple of Frithjof Schuon, he is considered in France as a gift translator of the medieval sufi gnostic Ibn Arabi and one of the fathers of the akbarian studies. He was a member of the Traditionalist School and the director of the traditionalist journal Les Etudes Traditionnelles until his death. Most of his articles have been published in L'Islam et la Fonction de René Guénon (Editions de l'Oeuvre, Paris).