Topic: Islamic Arts : history, Islam, muslims and Sweden. Sweden has for more than a thousand years had contacts with the Islamic world.
Exhibit 6 October 2018 – 10 February 2019 on the Thielska Gallery
Https://www.thielskagalleriet.se/utstallning/ivan-agueli-maleriet-och-mystiken/
Ivan Aguéli was a Swedish painter, religion philosopher and orientalist. He took the latter name Abed Al-Hadi Aqhili (شيخ عبد الهادی عقیلی). He was with its innovative painting one of the Swedish Arts protagonists. Only through carefully balanced colour toner front he called a sense of distance and light in his paintings, despite the intimate format owns a large monumentalitet… Madame Ung Huot has been, as he spent time with was an early animal rights activist, and some would argue that it would be Aguélis merit that bull fighting never smote through when they sought to introduce them in France.
“In 1902 Aguéli moved to Cairo and became one of the first Western Europeans to be officially enrolled at Al-Azhar University, where he studied Arabic and Islamic philosophy.”
Ivan Aguéli, Wikipedia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ivan_Agu%C3%A9li
Ivan Aguéli was born in 1869 and died in 1917, run over by a train outside Barcelona. Aguéli studied in Paris and was anarkist, painted later for long periods in Egypt where he converted to Islam and joined in a sufisk order.
Literature:
Viveca Wessel, Ivan Aguéli – porträtt av en rymd (1988), Författarförlaget.
Karin Ådahl,
Sverige och den islamiska världen ett svenskt kulturarv (2002), W&W 2002
Boken berättar om det rika Islamiska kulturarvet som har lagt grunden till en stor del av dagens västkultur och vetenskap.
Simon Sorgenfrei, Det monoteistiska landskapet : Ivan Aguéli och Emanuel Swedenborg ,(2018). Ellerströms förlag AB