Jean-Louis Michon was a French traditionalist and translator who specialized in Islamic art and Sufism.
12 Facts About Jean-Louis Michon
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Jean-Louis Michon worked extensively with the United Nations to preserve the cultural heritage of Morocco.
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Greatly moved by Guenon's writings, Jean-Louis Michon felt the need to enter an initiatic tradition.
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Jean-Louis Michon longed to travel to Japan to find a Zen master, but Japan was currently at war with his country.
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Jean-Louis Michon returned to school to take his final exams and it was there in the school library that he read in La Revue Africaine an article on the late Sufi master Sheikh Ahmad al-Alawi.
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The next day Jean-Louis Michon began attending prayers at the mosques, and, with the help of Michel Valsan, he converted to Islam.
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Jean-Louis Michon's thesis was on the life and works of a scholar and spiritual guide of great renown from the north of Morocco, Shaykh Ahmad Ibn 'Ajibah al-Hasani, whose Autobiography and Glossary of Technical Terms of Sufism Michon translated from Arabic into French.
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In July 1946 Jean-Louis Michon traveled to Lausanne to be initiated by the disciple of Sheikh al-Alawi, Frithjof Schuon.
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From 1972 to 1980 Jean-Louis Michon was the Chief Technical Advisor to the Moroccan government on UNESCO projects for the preservation of the cultural heritage.
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Jean-Louis Michon was part of an effort to coordinate the rehabilitation of traditional handicrafts that were endangered by industrialization.
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Jean-Louis Michon was greatly involved in the preservation and restoration of the casbahs of Morocco as part of a project designed to protect the city of Fez.
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Jean-Louis Michon was a contributor to the quarterly journal, Studies in Comparative Religion, which dealt with religious symbolism and the Traditionalist perspective.