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Mateus Soares de Azevedo (born 24 January 1959) is a Brazilian writer, journalist, editor and translator. He has published a dozen books and more than a hundred essays and articles on the perennial philosophy and the mystical and esoteric currents of Christianity and Islam. His Men of a Single Book received the USA Best Books 2011 Awards.

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Mateus Soares de Azevedo
2019
Born	1959 (age 62–63) Belo Horizonte, Brazil
Occupation	author, journalist, translator
Language	Portuguese
Alma mater	University of São Paulo; Pontifical Catholic University of São Paulo
Subject	spirituality religion philosophy
Literary movement	Traditionalist School (perennialism)
Notable works	- Men of a Single Book: Fundamentalism in Islam, Christianity and Modern Thought; - Ye shall know the truth: Christianity and the Perennial Philosophy
Notable awards	The USA "Best Books 2011" in Comparative religion

Several of his writings have been translated into English, French, Spanish, and other languages.

Life

Born in Belo Horizonte in 1959, Mateus Soares de Azevedo spent his childhood in this city. In São Paulo – where he now lives – he attended elementary and high school at Colégio Santa Cruz, modern languages at the University of São Paulo, and journalism at the Pontifical Catholic University of that same city. He also studied International relations at George Washington University, USA, and obtained a master's in History of religions from the University of São Paulo.[1][2]

His profession as a writer, journalist, editor and translator[2] have prompted him to make journeys to Europe in order to contact religious authorities, collect material for his books, and interview Perennialist authors. In Europe, he deepened his knowledge of the three main branches of Christianity, visiting Catholic (Portugal, Spain, France, Italy and Ireland), Protestant (England, Holland, Switzerland and Germany), and Orthodox (Russia) countries.[1] He also traveled to Muslim countries such as Iran, Turkey, Morocco, Bosnia and Tunisia, in search of direct contact with the Islamic reality.[1]

Work

Ordens Sufis no Islã (Sufi Orders in Islam) is the first book exclusively dedicated to the theme of Sufi brotherhoods published in Brazil. According to Kleiton Fontes, who reviewed the book, these fraternities are at the heart of what is most impressive in the Islamic world, from thought to the arts, from architecture to mysticism, clothing and even politics. The work assesses the impact of the Sufi brotherhoods on history; its doctrines, methods, and rituals; the advent of Islam in Persia; Sufism in contemporary Iran, among other topics.[3]

Men of a Single Book: Fundamentalism in Islam, Christianity and Modern Thought, published in the US in 2011, won the North American Literary Award for Book of the Year in the Comparative Religion category.[4] It was thus characterized in the pages of the North American magazine Parabola: “This groundbreaking book by the award-wining Brazilian author analyzes what the author has perceptively phrased ‘secular fundamentalism’.”[5]

Azevedo published more than a hundred essays on comparative religion, esoterism, and criticism of the materialist mentality of the modern world in the main Brazilian newspapers and magazines, such as O Estado de S. Paulo, Folha de S.Paulo, O Globo, História Viva, Gazeta Mercantil.[6] Some of them have been translated into English, French, Spanish, and Italian, and published in Sophia (USA), Sacred Web (Canada), Dossier H (Switzerland) and Ultreia (France).[7][8] He is also the translator in Portuguese of Frithjof Schuon, a Swiss metaphysician of the Perennialist school; he also translated books from Martin Lings, William Stoddart, C.S. Lewis, etc.[9][2]

Awards

Men of a Single Book: Fundamentalism in Islam, Christianity and Modern Thought, published by World Wisdom Books, Bloomington/IN, USA, received the following awards:

• The USA "Best Books 2011" Awards (sponsored by USA Book News), "Comparative Religion" category: winner.
  
• "ForeWord" Book of the Year Award, "Religion" category: finalist.
  
• Midwest Book Award, "Current Events" category: silver medal.[4]

Writings

• Alchemy of Love: Sexuality & the Spiritual Life, Sophia Perennis, 2020, ISBN 9781597311830[N 1]
• Ye shall know the truth: Christianity and the Perennial Philosophy, World Wisdom, 2005, ISBN 0941532690[N 2]

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