He is a genuine intellectual, a disciple of the great Allan Bloom, and has a PhD in political science from Harvard.
Fathi, a forty-eight-year-old veterinarian, had been picking him up every Friday afternoon for seven years to drive him the ten minutes or so to the Kasr al-Nil, a fashionable café overlooking the Nile, where every Friday evening for thirty years Mahfouz had met with like-minded writers, intellectuals, and disciples.
Passeron, a former disciple of French intellectual Pierre Bourdieu, was delighted.
The young Austrian composers Alban Berg and Anton Webern began studying with him in 1904; both gained from him the impetus to their notable careers, and Schoenberg, in turn, benefitted greatly from the intellectual stimulation of his loyal disciples.
Dismissive of students who are lazy, mediocre or slow-witted, he is extolled by his disciples as "the intellectual counterpart" to Michael Jordan, and for these chosen few, he plays the role of father figure, confidant and confessor.
Ramakrishna taught, among other things, an essential diversity of religious paths leading to the same goal, and this teaching was given an intellectual form by Swami Vivekananda, his famed disciple.
Ever since W. H. Auden's "Poems" appeared, in 1930, British poetry had been dominated by his cool, intellectual, ominous music; along with such disciples as Spender and Cecil Day-Lewis, Auden created what sounded like the inevitable idiom for a decade of crisis.
This is, however, qualified by Averroës as the disciple of Plato: the highest intellectual perfection is reserved for the metaphysician, as in Plato's ideal state.
The following authors, disciples and organisations trace their intellectual heritage back to, or have in some measure been influenced by, Aurobindo and The Mother.
There were the post-Webernian disciples of 12-tone technique, who claimed the intellectual high ground, often from tenured chairs in prestigious universities.
