The Great Aesthetic Inspiration: On Ivan Aguéli's Reading of Swedenborg.

Ivan Aguéli is known not only as an artist but also as Sweden's first (famous) convert to Islam and as an initiate in the Sufi order Shadhiliyya-Arabiyya. Sufism's role in Aguéli's life and its significance for his theory of art and style of painting have been analyzed primarily by Viveca Wessel (19...

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Published in:Religion & the Arts Vol. 23; no. 1; pp. 1 - 26
Main Author: Sorgenfrei, Simon
Format: Article
Published: Brill Academic Publishers 2019
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