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>>9734633
I do not like Evola with his Kshatriya worldview. Strictly speaking, even Guenon called him a fool behind his back (in letters to his friends), because Evola tried to criticize his understanding of Vedanta. But Eliade is not bad, such soft-traditionalist. In addition to his work on the history of religions, I advise you to read his "Myth and reality" (although I do not know if this work exists in English).
>>9734652
Schuon said that Guenon "chose" the Islamic way, because he in fact had no choice: he did not admit the initiatic nature of the Christian sacraments, Buddhism in that time he considered as a heterodox teaching, and Hindu initiation was inaccessible to him because of the caste system. And then we don't know if he would become a muslim without settling in Egypt, as he got an initiation into the Sufi Tarikat while still living in Paris, not thinking of practicing Islam. Thus, Guenon chose the initiation and not the "Islamic way".