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Tage Leonard Lindbom (24 October 1909 – 30 September 2001) was a mystic and conservative philosopher, who early in his life was the party theoretician and director of the archives of the Swedish Social Democratic Party 1938–1965.
He served on public boards and commissions dealing with cultural questions,[1] including the executive board of the Royal Opera.[2] He later converted to Islam. He became a representative of the Traditional School and the Perennial philosophy. Lindbom has been called "the grand old man" of Swedish conservativism and is the author of more than 20 books on philosophy and religion.[3] He was a contributor to the quarterly journal, Studies in Comparative Religion, which dealt with religious symbolism and the Traditionalist perspective.
Since the early 1960s Lindbom was a disciple of the Swiss metaphysician Frithjof Schuon. Lindbom had in his later years an inner group of spiritual students in Sweden and is the author of the first esoteric commentary on the Koran in Swedish, entitled Encounter with the Koran.[4]
- ^ Ryn, Claes G. Introduction. In Lindbom, Tage (1996). The Myth of Democracy. Grand Rapids/Cambridge: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Co. p. 3. ISBN 0-8028-4064-7.
- ^ Dahlén, Ashk. Inledning. Om philosophia perennis. In Lindbom, Tage (2003). I Frithjof Schuons fotspår. Stockholm: Prisma. p. 20. ISBN 91-518-4138-X.
- ^ Durrani, Pierre (2002). "Om Tage Lindbom (1909-2001)". Minaret: Tidskrift för svensk muslimsk kultur. 2 (4): 46.
- ^ Omar, Mohamed (2006). "Svenska muslimer". Minaret: Tidskrift för svensk muslimsk kultur. 6 (3): 8–9.