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
religioussymbolism 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]
Writings in English
The Tares and the Good Grain: Or, The Kingdom of Man at the Hour of Reckoning (transl. of Agnarna och vetet from the French by Alvin Moore, Jr.),
Mercer University Press (UK), 1982,
ISBN978-0-86554-079-8 / 0865540799.
The Myth of Democracy (transl. of Demokratin är en myt), Wm B Eerdmans Publishing Co, 1996,
ISBN0-8028-4064-7 / 0-8028-4064-7.
"Lucifer" (transl. of chapter from Bortom teologin), Every Branch in Me: Essays on the Meaning of Man, ed. Barry McDonald,
World Wisdom, Bloomington, 2002.
ISBN0-941532-39-9 / 978–0941532396. Also published in Religion of the Heart: Essays Presented to Frithjof Schuon on His Eightieth Birthday, eds.
Seyyed Hossein Nasr and
William Stoddart, Washington D.C., 1991.
L'ivraie et le bon grain ou Le royaume de l'homme à l'heure des échéances, trad. du Suédois par
Roger du Pasquier (transl. of Agnarna och vetet), Milano, 1976.
Books in German
Atlantis : Idee und Wirklichkeit des Sozialismus (transl. of Efter Atlantis), Frankfurt am Main, 1955.
^Ryn, Claes G. Introduction. In Lindbom, Tage (1996). The Myth of Democracy. Grand Rapids/Cambridge: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Co. p. 3.
ISBN0-8028-4064-7.
^Dahlén, Ashk. Inledning. Om philosophia perennis. In Lindbom, Tage (2003). I Frithjof Schuons fotspår. Stockholm: Prisma. p. 20.
ISBN91-518-4138-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.