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Guenon, who was born in Blois, France, on November 15, 1886, as the son of an architect father in a traditional Catholic family, received his formal education in mathematics and philosophy. In 1906, at the age of twenty, he became the pioneer of the occult movement later led by Papus (Dr. Gerard Encausse). He attended the courses of Ecole Hermetique. He later rejected some of Papus' beliefs (spiritualism, reincarnation). In 1910, the famous man embraced Islam and took the name Abdulhadi. He met the French painter Gustav Ageli and through him, he converted to Islam in 1912 and became affiliated with Abdurrahman Eliş el Kebir, one of the Shazeliye sheikhs in Egypt, and took the name Abdülvahid Yahya. He completed his university education in 1916 with Leibniz and Sonsuz. He completed his thesis with his thesis titled Calculation of Minors.