# Claudio Mutti

Claudio Mutti (born May 24, 1946) is an Italian neofascist. In the 1960s, he was a member of Young Italy (the juvenile wing of the Italian Social Movement, which expelled him for extremism) and the euro-nationalist Jeune Europe movement. In 1980 he was arrested in connection with the Bologna massacre, alongside fellow neofascist ideologues Paolo Signorelli and Aldo Semerari. He converted to Islam in the 1980s, having become influenced by Julius Evola, René Guénon, and Muammar Gaddafi. He met with Aleksandr Dugin in 1990. Mark Sedgwick describes him as an important figure in late twentieth-century Traditionalist networks in Europe.

## Biography

Already as a very young man he joined the Italian Social Movement; being later expelled, he later joined Jean-François Thiriart Jeune Europe Europeanist-nationalist movement in which Franco Cardini had also joined.
After the movement's crisis in 1969 he joined the Nazi-Maoist group Lotta di Popolo and in 1973 became president of the Italy-Libya Association. During those years he authored articles aimed at celebrating Muhammar Gaddafi's Libyan socialism. In 1979 he authored another initiative: the Europe-Islam Association based in Venice.
He devoted himself to Finno-Ugric languages philology for many years, working as an assistant at the University of Bologna, becoming the author of some 30 articles and essays on Magyar folklore and Hungarian literature. He was also interested in the "political" use of language as an instrument of cultural hegemony, defining the English language as a superstructure of the hegemonic projection of the U.S. at the turn of the 20th and 21st century.
A connoisseur of Romanian language and culture, in 1979 he became the holder of a professorship at the Italian Cultural Institute in Bucharest, which was revoked following a parliamentary question by Hon. Antonello Trombadori, who asked the government "whether it was necessary to entrust a Nazi with the representation of Italian culture abroad." He translated and presented numerous documents of the Iron Guard and Corneliu Zelea Codreanu for Franco Freda's Edizioni di Ar. For the same publishing house he also published an annotated edition of The Protocols of the Elders of Zion, edits of works by Ferenc Szálasi and Ion Moța and anthologies of speeches by Muhammar Gaddafi and Adolf Hitler.
Also interested in Muslim affairs, he directed, in the mid-1980s, the magazine Jihad, published in Italy and supported by the Iran embassy in Rome. Ha tradotto numerosi testi sull'islamismo e scritti dell'ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeyni attaccando a più riprese lo stato di Israele. Nel 1985 si è convertito all'Islam con il nome di Omar Amine in onore del colonnello delle SS Johann von Leers.
He founded the publishing house Edizioni all'Insegna del Veltro, in which he published studies on traditional symbolism, annotated translations of Greek philosophers, and studies of medieval and contemporary history. The publishing house's catalog includes authors such as Julius Evola, Corneliu Zelea Codreanu, Johann von Leers, René Guénon, Frithjof Schuon, Henry Corbin, Béla Hamvas, Werner Sombart, Drieu La Rochelle, Robert Brasillach, Karl Haushofer and Savitri Devi, as well as works by revisionist historian Robert Faurisson, and texts by "heretical" Marxist authors such as Constantius Preve and Gennadij Zjuganov.
Since 2004, he has been on the editorial staff of the Geopolitics journal Eurasia, of which he became the editor in December 2011. He taught Italian, History, Geography, Latin and Greek at the Liceo ginnasio statale Gian Domenico Romagnosi high school in Parma until a.s. 2010–2011.
He is interested in issues concerning esotericism, symbolism, and religion. He has devoted various studies to philosophers and thinkers such as Mircea Eliade, Emil Cioran, Friedrich Nietzsche, René Guénon and Julius Evola. He writes in the periodicals Ways of Tradition and Fire.
Author of an introduction to the works of German sociologist Werner Sombart, he has also been interested in the aesthetics of Nazism and its influence.
In March 2014 Mutti was invited to Iran by Hamed Ghashghavi, to participate in the International Conference on the Prophet of Islam Muhammad, Cinema & World Literature.
He has a son, Suleiman Mutti, who is known as a neofolk musician artist under the pseudonym Thulesehnsucht in der Maschinenzeit.