Frithjof Schuon

He joined the Alawiyya in Algeria in 1932 and founded his own branch, later the Maryamiyya, in Europe. In Indiana, where he moved in 1980, charges brought in October 1991 were dropped within weeks.

Mark Sedgwick, 'Against Modernity: Western Traditionalism and Islam', ISIM Newsletter 7 (2001), p. 11; Kurt Van der Dussen, 'Schuon indictments dropped', Herald-Times, Bloomington, 21 November 1991

Basel-born Traditionalist writer and Sufi shaykh (1907–1998).

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Primary source

Frithjof Schuon, trans. Marco Pallis, Language of the Self, 1959, p. 52Schuon's teaching of discernment between the Real and the unreal as the ground of the spiritual path.
to distinguish between the Real and the unreal

Scholarship

Mark Sedgwick, Against Modernity: Western Traditionalism and Islam, ISIM Newsletter 7, 2001, p. 11Schuon joined the Alawiyya in 1932 and set up his own branch in France and Switzerland before the Second World War; by 1945 it was his own order, the Maryamiyya.
joined the Alawiyya in Algeria in 1932
Kurt Van der Dussen, 'Schuon indictments dropped', The Herald-Times (Bloomington, Indiana), 1991, 21 November 1991, as reproduced at accuratenews.netThe October 1991 Monroe County indictments for child molesting and sexual battery were dismissed by the prosecutor on 20 November 1991.
there is insufficient evidence to support a criminal prosecution on these charges