Bibliography of Titus Burckhardt

Books in German

Land am Rande der Zeit, Basel, Urs Graf Verlag, 1941.

  1. Schweizer Volkskunst/Art Populaire Suisse, Basel, Urs Graf Verlag, 194 1.
  2. Tessin (Das Volkserbe der Schweiz, Band 1), Basel, Urs Graf Verlag, 1943.
  3. Vom Sufitum?Einfhērung in die Mystik des Islams, Munich, Otto Wilhelm Barth-Verlag, 1953.
  4. Vom Wessen heiliger Kunst in den Weltreligionen, Zērich, Origo-Verlag, 1958.
  5. Siena, Stadt der ?ungfrau, Olten (Switzerland) and Freiburg-im-Breisgau (Germany), Urs Graf Verlag, 1958.
  6. Tessin (Das Volkserbe der Schweiz, Band 1), Basel, Urs Graf Verlag, 1959, [Greatly enlarged edition.]
  7. Alchemie, Sinn- und Weltbild, Olten and Freiburg-im-Breisgau, Walter-Verlag, 1960.
  8. Fes, Stadt des Islam, Olten and Freiburg-im-Breisgau, Urs Graf Verlag, 196o.
  9. Chartres und die Geburt der Kathedrale, Lausanne, Urs Graf Verlag, 1962.
  10. Von wunderbaren Bēchern, Olten and Freiburg, Urs Graf Verlag, 1963.
  11. Lachen und Weinen, Olten and Freiburg, Urs Graf Verlag, 1964.
  12. Die Jagd, Olten and Frieburg, Urs Graf Verlag, 1964.
  13. Der wilde Westen, Olten and Freiburg, Urs Graf Verlag, 1966.
  14. Die maurische Kultur in Spanien, Munich, Callwey, 1970.
  15. Marokko, Westlicher Orient: ein Reisefēhrer, Olten and Freiburg, Walter-Verlag, 1972.
  16. Wissenschaft und Weisheit (collected articles), in preparation.
  17. Scipio und Hannibal.. Kampf um das Mittelmeer by Friedrich Donauer. Cover design and six illustrations by Titus Burckhardt. Olten and Freiburg, Walter-Verlag, 1939.
  18. Wallis (Das Volkserbe der Schweiz, Band 2) by Charles Ferdinand Ramuz. Translated and edited by Titus Burckhardt. Basel, Urs Graf Verlag, 1956.
  19. Zeus und Eros: Briefe und Aufzeichnungen des Bildhauers Carl Burckhardt (1878-1923) edited by Titus Burckhardt. Basel, Urs Graf Verlag, 1956.
  20. Das Ewige im Vergṇnglichen by Frithjof Schuon. Translation from the French by Titus Burckhardt of Regards sur les Mondes anciens. Weilheim, Oberbayern, Otto Wilhelm Barth-Verlag, 1970.
  21. Athos, der Berg des Schweigens by Philip Sherrard. Translation from the English by Titus Burckhardt of Athos, the Mountain of Silence. Lausanne and Frieberg, Urs Graf Verlag, 1959.

Articles in German

  1. Foreword to Der Sinn der Ikonen by Leonid Ouspensky and Wladimir Lossky, Olten (Switzerland) and Freiburg-im-Breisgau (Germany), Urs Graf Verlag, 1952.
  2. ‘Die Symbolik des Spiegels in der islamischen Mystik’, Symbolon, 1960.
  3. ‘Symbolik des Islams’, Kairos (Salzburg), 1961.
  4. ‘Von der Heiligkeit des Wassers’, CIBA-Blṇtter (Hauszeitschrift der CIBA Aktiengesellschaft, Basel) Sondernummer: Wasser’. Vol. 18, No. 174, July-August 1961.
  5. ‘Die Lehre vom Symbol in den Grossen Ueberlieferungen des Ostens und des Westens’, Symbolon, 1962.
  6. ‘Cosmologia Perennis’, Kairos (Salzburg), No. 1, 1964.
  7. ‘Letter to the Editor,’ Kairos (Salzburg), No. 2, 1964.
  8. ‘Moderne Psychologie und ēberlieferte Weisheit’, Kairos (Salzburg), Nos. 3 & 4, 1964.
  9. ‘Weil Dante Recht hat’, Antaios (Stuttgart), May 1965.
  10. ‘Abstrake kunst im alten Fes’, Du (Zērich), March 1972.
  11. ‘Die ēberlieferten Handwerke in Marokko: ihr Wesen und ihr Schicksal’, Zeitschrift fēr Ganzheitsforschung (Vienna), No. 2, 1974.
  12. ‘Betrachtungen zur Alchemie’ (translated from the French by Margreth Pietsch), in Initiative 42: Wissende, Verschmiegene, Eingeweihte (Freiburg-im-Breisgau, Herder, 1981).
  13. ‘Die heilige Maske’ (translated from the French), in Initiative 48: Die Macht der Masken (Freiburg-im-Breisgau, Herder, 1982).

(All of the above-listed articles are in the original German of the author, except for the two translations indicated.)

Books in French

  1. Clef spiritualle de l’ Astrologie musulmane, Paris, Les Editions Traditionnelles, 195o; Milan, Archṭ, 1964.
  2. Du Soufisme, Lyons, Derain, 195 1.
  3. Principes et Mḥthodes de l `Art sacrḥ, Lyons, Derain, 1958.
  4. Introduction aux Doctrines ḥsotḥriques de l’Islam, Paris, Dervy- Livres, 1969.
  5. Alchimie (translated from the English edition by Madame J. P. Gervy), Basle, Fondation Keimer, 1974; Milan, Archṭ, 1979.
  6. Symboles: Recueil d`essais, Milan, Archṭ, 198o; Paris, Dervy-Livres, 1980.
  7. Science moderne et Sagesse traditionnelle, Milan, Archṭ, 1985; Paris, Dervy- Livres, 1985.
  8. L ’Art de l’Islam, Sindbad, Paris, 1985.
  9. Fṭs, Ville de l’Islam (translated from the German by ArmandJacoubovitch), in preparation.

(All of the above-listed books are in the original French of the author, except for the two translations indicated.)

Articles in French

  1. ‘Du Barzakh’, Etudes Traditionnelles (Paris), December 193 7.
  2. ‘De la Thora, de l’Evangile, et du Coran’, Etudes Traditionnelles, August- September, 1938.
  3. ‘Le Prototype Unique’, Etudes Traditionnelles, August-September 1938.
  4. ‘Folklore et Art ornemental’, Etudes Traditionnelles, August-September-October, 1939.
  5. ‘Une Clef spirituelle de l’Astrologie musulmane’, Etudes Traditionnelles, June 1947, July-August 1947, December 1947, January-February 1948.
  6. ‘Gḥnḥralitḥs sur l‘Art musulmane’, Etudes Traditionnelles, March 1947.
  7. Principes et Mḥthodes de l’Art traditionnel’, Etudes Traditionnelles, January-February 1947.
  8. ‘Nature de la Perspective cosmologique’, Etudes Traditionnelles, July-August, 1948.
  9. ‘Considḥrations sur l’Alchimie (i)’, Etudes Traditionnelles, October- November 1948, April-May, 1949.
  10. ‘Nature sait surmonter Nature’, ‘Etudes Traditionnelles, January-February, 1950.
  11. ‘Le Temple, Corps de l’Homme Divin’, Etudes Traditionnelles, June 1951.
  12. ‘Extraits du Commentaire des Noms Divins par l’Imām Ghazālī’ (Translation and notes by Titus Burckhardt), Etudes Traditionnelles, October-November 1952, December 1954.
  13. ‘ "je suis la Porte" ’, Etudes Traditionnelles, June 1953, July-August 1953.
  14. ‘La Genṭse du Temple hindou’, Etudes Traditionnelles, October-November, 1953, December 1953.
  15. ‘Les Fondements de l’Art chrḥtien’, Etudes Traditionnelles, April-May 1954.
  16. ‘Les Fondements de l’Art musulman’, Etudes Traditionnelles, June 1954.
  17. ‘Le symbolisme du jeu des ḥchecs’, Etudes Traditionnelles, October-November, 1954.
  18. ‘Le Paysage dans l’Art extrṯme-oriental’, Etudes Traditionnelles, April-May, 1955.
  19. ‘Commentaire succinct de la Table d’Emeraude’, Etudes Traditionnelles, November-December 1960.
  20. ‘Considḥrations sur l’Alchimie (ii), Etudes Traditionnelles, November-December 1961.
  21. ‘ "Chevaucher le Tigre" ’, Etudes Traditionnelles, July-October 1962.
  22. ‘Le Masque Sacrḥ’, Etudes Traditionnelles, November-December 1963.
  23. ‘Cosmologie et Science moderne’, Etudes Traditionnelles, May-June, 1964, July-October, 1964, January-February 1965, March-April 1965, May-August 1965.
  24. ‘La Priṭre d’lbn Mashīsh’, Etudes Traditionnelles, January-February 1967.
  25. ‘Mise all point en ce qui concerne l’ḥdition française du livre Alchemie: Sinn-und Weltbild’, Etudes Traditionnelles, January-February 1967.
  26. ‘Le Vide dans l’Art Islamique’, Hermḥs, 1970.
  27. ‘Caractṭres perennes de l’art arabe’, Journal of World History, 1972.
  28. ‘Fṭs, une ville humaine’ (causerie faite le 21 avril 1973 dans le palais du Pacha devant les membres de l’Association pour la sauvegarde de Fṭs), Etudes Traditionnelles, July-September 1984.
  29. ‘Note surle Prophṭte Mohammed’, in Formes et Substance dans les Religions by Frithjof Schuon, pp. 86-87 (Paris, Dervy-Livres, 1975).
  30. Prṭface ō Islam, Perspectives et Rṭalitṭs by Seyyed Hossein Nasr (Paris, Buchet-Chastel, 1975).
  31. ‘Les Sciences traditionnelles ō Fṭs’, Etudes Traditionnelles, October-December 1977.
  32. ‘Le Retour d’Ulysse’, Etudes Traditionnelles, January-March 1979.
  33. ‘Fṭs et l’Art de l’Islam’, in Actes du Sḥminaire expḥrimental d’Animation Culturelle, 7 mars-28 avril 1978, Fonds international pour la Promotion de la Culture, UNESCO, Conferences, volume I, pp. 109- 119, 1980.
  34. ‘La Danse du Soleil’, Connaissance des Religions (Nancy, France), 19 8 5.

Translations from Arabic into French

De l’Homme Universel (Traduction partielle de ‘AI-Insān al-Kāmil’ de ‘Abd al-Karīm al-Jīlī). With an introduction by the translator. Lyons, Derain, 1953; Paris, Dervy-Livres, 1975.

  1. La Sagesse des Prophḥtes (Traduction partielle des ‘Fuṣūṣ al-Ḥikam’ de Ibn
  2. ‘Arabī). With an Introduction by the translator. Paris, Albin Michel, 1955 and 1974.
  3. Lettres d’un Maitre Soufi (Traduction partielle des ‘Rasā’il’ de Moulay al-‘Arabī ad-Darqāwī). With an Introduction by the translator. Milan, Archṭ, 1978; Paris, Dervy-Livres, 1978.

Books in English

  1. An Introduction to Sufi Doctrine (translated from the French by D. M. Matheson), Lahore, Ashraf, 1959; Wellingborough, England, Thorsons, 1976; Suhail Academy, Lahore, Pakistan, 1985, 1999.
  2. Siena, City of the Virgin (translated from the German by Margaret Brown), Oxford University Press, 1960.
  3. Famous Illuminated Manuscripts (partial translation of Von wunderbaren Bēchern), Olten and Lausanne, Urs Graf Verlag, 1964.
  4. Sacred Art in East and West (translated from the French by Lord Northbourne), Bedfont, Middlesex, England, Perennial Books, 1967.
  5. Alchemy: Science of the Cosmos, Science of the Soul (translated from the German by William Stoddart), London, Stuart and Watkins, 1967; Baltimore, Maryland, Penguin Books, 1972.
  6. Moorish Culture in Spain (translated from the German by Alisa Jaffa), London, Allen and Unwin, 1972; New York, McGraw-Hill, 1972; Suhail Academy, Lahore, Pakistan, 1999.
  7. Art of Islam: Language and Meaning (translated from the French by Peter Hobson), London, Islamic Festival Trust Ltd, 1976.
  8. Mystical Astrology, according to Ibn ‘Arabi (translated from the French by Bulent Rauf), Sherbourne, England, Beshara, 1977.
  9. Fez, City of Islam (translated from the German by William Stoddart), Cambridge, England, Islamic Texts Society, 1997.
  10. Mirror of the Intellect: Essays on Traditional Science and Sacred Art (translated by William Stoddart), Cambridge, England, Quinta Essentia, 1987.
  11. Chartres and the Genesis of the Gothic Cathedral (translated by Peter Hobson), Golgonoza Press, 1995.

Articles in English

  1. ‘Principles and Methods of Traditional Art’, in Art and Thought (Coomaraswamy Festschrift), London, Luzac, 1947.
  2. ‘The Spirit of Islamic Art’, Islamic Quarterly (London), December 1954.
  3. Foreword to The Meaning of Icons by Leonid Ouspensky and Vladimir Lossky (translated by E. Kadloubovsky and G. E. H. Palmer), Boston, The Boston Book and Art Shop, 1956; Crestwood, New York, St. Vladimir’s Seminary Press, 1983.
  4. ‘Insight into Alchemy’, Tomorrow, Winter, 1964; Studies in Comparative Religion, Summer-Autumn 1979.
  5. ‘Cosmology and Modern Science’, Tomorrow, Summer 1964, Autumn 1964, Winter 1965. Also included in Sword of Gnosis (edited by Jacob Needleman), Baltimore, Maryland, Penguin Books, 1974.
  6. ‘Because Dante is Right’, Tomorrow, Summer 1966.
  7. ‘Perennial Values in Islamic Art’, Al-Abhath, March 1967; Studies in Comparative Religion, Summer 1967; in God and Man in Contemporary Islamic Thought, Beirut, Centennial, 1972; in Sword of Gnosis (edited by Jacob Needleman), Baltimore, Penguin Books, 1974.
  8. ‘Islamic Surveys: Four Works by Seyyed Hossein Nasr’, Studies in Comparative Religion, Winter 1968.
  9. ‘The Symbolism of Chess’, Studies in Comparative Religion, Spring 1969.
  10. ‘Teilhard de Chardin (I), Studies in Comparative Religion, Spring 1969.
  11. ‘The Seven Liberal Arts and the West Door of Chartres Cathedral’, Studies in Comparative Religion, Summer 1969; also Winter-Spring 1985.
  12. ‘The Heavenly Jerusalem and the Paradise of Vaikuntha’, Studies in Comparative Religion, Winter 1970.
  13. ‘The Void in Islamic Art’, Studies in Comparative Religion, Spring 1970; also Winter-Spring 1985.
  14. Note on the Prophet Mohammed, in Dimensions of Islam by Frithjof Schuon, pp. 69-70 (London, Allen and Unwin, 1970).
  15. ‘Arab or Islamic Art?’, Studies in Comparative Religion, Winter 1971; also in Sword of Gnosis (edited by Jacob Needleman), Baltimore, Penguin Books, 1974.
  16. ‘Abstract Art in Ancient Fez’, Du (Zērich), March 1972.
  17. Foreword to Geometric Concepts in Islamic Art by Issam El-Said and Ayse Parman, London, Islamic Festival Trust Ltd, 1976.
  18. ‘Introduction to Islamic Art’ in The Arts of Islam, catalogue to the special exhibition in the Hayward Gallery, London, The Arts Council of Great Britain, 1976.
  19. ‘The Prayer of Ibn Mashish’, Studies in Comparative Religion, Winter-Spring 1978; Islamic Quarterly, September 1978.
  20. ‘The Return of Ulysses’, Parabola, November 1978.
  21. ‘Concerning the "Barzakh" ‘, Studies in Comparative Religion, Winter-Spring 1979.
  22. ‘Fez’, in The Islamic City, UNESCO, Paris, 1980, pp. 166-176.
  23. Preface to R. W. J. Austin’s translation of Ibn ‘Arabī’s The Bezels of Wisdom (Fuṣūṣ al-Ḥikam), London, S.P.C.K., 1980; Ramsey, New Jersey, The Paulist Press, 1980; Suhail Academy, Lahore, 1985.
  24. ‘The Sacred Mask’, Studies in Comparative Religion, Winter-Spring 1980.
  25. ‘Teilhard de Chardin (II)’, in The Destruction of the Christian Tradition by Rama Coomaraswamy, pp. 211-212. Bedfont, Middlesex, England, Perennial Books, 1981.
  26. ‘The Role of Fine Arts in Muslim Education’, in Philosophy, Literature and Fine Arts (edited by Seyyed Hossein Nasr), Sevenoaks, Kent, England, Islamic Education Series, 1982.
  27. ‘Traditional Science’, Studies in Comparative Religion, Winter-Spring 1985.
  28. Two short extracts from Schweizer Volkskunst, Studies in Comparative Religion, Winter-Spring 1985.
  29. ‘The Spirituality of Islamic Art’, in The Encyclopaedia of World Spirituality, vol. 20 (edited by Seyyed Hossein Nasr), London, Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1987.
  30. ‘The Universality of Sacred Art’, in The Unanimous Tradition (edited by Ranjit Fernando), The Institute of Traditional Studies, Colombo, Sri Lanka, 1992.

Translations from Arabic into French and then into English

  1. Letters of a Sufi Master (partial translation of the ‘Rasā’il’ of Mulay al-‘Arabī ad-Darqāwī), Bedfont, Middlesex, Perennial Books, 1973; Suhail Academy, Lahore, Pakistan, 1985, 1999.
  2. The Wisdom of the Prophets (partial translation of ‘Fuṣūṣ al-Ḥikam’ by Ibn ‘Arabī), Sherbourne, Beshara, 1975; Suhail Academy, Lahore, Pakistan, 1985, 1999.
  3. Universal Man (partial translation of ‘Al-Insān al-Kāmil’ by ‘Abd al-Karīm al-Jīlī), Sherboume, Beshara, 1983.

Books in Italian

  1. L’Alchimia (translated from the German by Angela Terzani Staude), Turin, Boringhicri, 1961; (translated from the French by Ferdinando Bruno), Milan, Guanda, 1981.
  2. Scienza moderna e Sagzza tradizionale, translated from the German by Angela Terzani Staude), Turin, Borla, 1968.
  3. Siena, Cittō della Vergine (translated from the German by Gisella Burgisser), Milan, Archṭ, 1978.
  4. L’Arte sacra in Orientle e Occidente (translated from the French by Elena Bono), Milan, Rusconi, 1976.
  5. Introduzione alle Dottrine esoteriche dell’Islam (translated from the French by Barbara Turco), Rome, Edizioni Mediterranee, 1979.
  6. Simboli (translated from the French by Elisabetta Bonfanti Mutti), Parma, A11’nsegna del Veltro, 1983.
  7. Chiave spirituale dell’Astrologia musulmana (translated from the French), Genoa, Basilisco, 1985.

Articles in Italian

‘Una Chiave spirituale dell’Astrologia secondo Muhyiddin ibn ‘Arabi’, Rivista di Studii Iniziatici, Naples, August-October 1947.

Nota sul Profeta Mohamed in Forma e Sostanza nelle Religioni di Frithjof Schuon (Roma, Edizioni Mediterranee, 1984).

Translations from Arabic into French and then into Italian

  1. L’Uomo Universale (translated from the French by Giorgio Jannaccone), Rome, Edizioni Mediterranee, 1981.
  2. La Sapienza dei Profeti (translated from the French by Giorgio Jannaccone), Rome, Edizioni Mediterranee, 1987.
  3. Lettere d’un Maestro Sufi (translated from the French by Giorgio Jannaccone), Milan, La Queste, 1987.

Books in Spanish

  1. AlquimṚa (translated by Ana MarṚa de la Fuente), Barcelona, Plaza y Janḥs, 1971.
  2. La CivilizaciṮn Hispano-Arabe (translated by Rosa Kulme Braban), Madrid, Alianza Editorial, 1977.
  3. Esoterismo Isldmico (translated by JesŪs Garcia Varela), Madrid, Taurus Ediciones, 1980.
  4. SabidurṚa Tradicional y Gencia Moderna (translated by JordṚ Quingles and Alejandro Corniero), Madrid, Taurus Ediciones, 1980.
  5. SṚmbolos (translated by Francesc Gutiḥrrez), Mallorca, Josḥ J. de Olaneta, 1982.
  6. Principios y Mḥtodos delArte sagrado, Buenos Aires, 1984.

Articles in Spanish

Nota sobre el Profeta MohŌmed en Forma e Sustancia en las Religiones por Frithjof Schuon, capṚtulo sobre MohŌmed (Madrid, Taurus Ediciones, 1981).

‘El Simbolismo del Ajedrez’, Cieloy Tierra (Barcelona), No. I, 1982.

‘El Arte sagrado’, Cieloy Tierra (Barcelona), No. 6, 1983/1984.

Books translated into Urdu

  1. Islāmī Fan, Urdu translation of Art of Islam, Lahore, Institute of Islamic Culture, in preparation.
  2. Ta‘limāt i Taṣawwuf kā Ta‘āruf, Urdu translation of Introduction to the Sufi Doctrine, Lahore, Institute of Islamic Culture, in preparation.
  3. Ruq‘āt i Darqāwī, Urdu translation of Letters of a Sufi Master, Lahore, in preparation.

Articles translated into Urdu

  1. ‘Kawniyāt awr Jadīd Nafsiyāt’, Part V of ‘Cosmology and Modern Science’, translated from English by Muḥammad Suheyl ‘Umar, in Riwāyat, Vol. I, Maktabah Riwāyat, Lahore, 1983, pp. 387-422.
  2. Review of Introduction to the Sufi Doctrine, in Riwāyat, Vol. II, Maktabah Riwāyat, Lahore, 1985, pp. 381-385.
  3. Review of Wisdom of the Prophets, in Riwāyat, Vol. II, Maktabah Riwāyat, Lahore, 1985, pp. 396-7.
  4. Review of Letters of a Sufi MAster, in Riwāyat, Vol. II, Maktabah Riwāyat, Lahore, 1985, pp. 398-400.

Books translated into Persian

Hunar dar Islām, Translated by Aḥmad Ārām, Tehran.

Hunar i Muqaddas dar Sharq o Gharb, Translated by Aḥmad Ārām, Tehran.

Articles translated into Persian

  1. ‘Perrenial Values in Islamic Art’, translated from the French into Persian by S. H. Naṣr, as "Arzish hā i Javīdān i Hunar i Dīnī ", in Muṭāla‘āt dar Hunar i Dīnī, Sāzmān i Jashn Hunar i Shīrāz, Takht Jamshīd, Tehran, 1349.
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