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Michel Valsan

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Michel Valsan (Romanian: Mihai Vâlsan; 1 February 1907, Brăila, Kingdom of Romania – 26 November 1974, Antony, Hauts-de-Seine) was a Muslim scholar and master of a Shadhiliyya tariqa in Paris under the name Shaykh Mustafa 'Abd al-'Aziz. Intellectually a Traditionalist, Valsan "modified Schuonian Traditionalism in the direction of extreme orthodoxy". He was also a Romanian diplomat and a prolific translator who specialized in translating and interpreting the works of the Sufi theoretician Ibn Arabi.

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  1. The Sultan appoints Latin bishops for some of the Greek isles. The form used on this occasion is as follows:[11] “I command such a one to go and reside as bishop in the Isle of Chios, according to the ancient custom and idle ceremonies of those people.” The Ottoman Empire swarms with Jacobins, Nestorians, Monothelites, Cophti, Christians of St.

    Voltaire, The Works of Voltaire, Vol. IV of XLIII. Romances, Vol. III of III, and A Treatise on Toleration.

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  2. Wherever the clergy is a corporate body,[3] it is master and legislator in its own country. There are thus two powers, two Sovereigns, in England and in Russia, as well as elsewhere.

    Jean-Jacques Rousseau, The social contract & discourses

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  3. He taught that repentance, a moral conversion, is a necessary preliminary to the mystic life, and he fought against a common tendency of mystics towards antinomianism. Similarly he tried to avoid the danger of interpreting the union of the soul with God as its identification with God in a pantheistic view of the universe. Goldzieher says he differed from the Sufis generally in the rejection of their pantheistic aims…

    Ghazzali, Some religious and moral teachings of Al-Ghazzali

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