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Michel Chodkiewicz (13 May 1929 – 31 March 2020) was a French scholar of Sufism, particularly the works of Ibn 'Arabi.cite-ref-0-1-0[1]

• Biography

• Publications

• Translations

• References

• See also

Michel Chodkiewicz was from the Chodkiewicz family, a noble family of the Polish aristocracy who settled in France in 1832. He was born in Paris in 1929 and completed most of his education there.cite-ref-2[2] Chodkiewicz converted to Islam at age 17.cite-ref-1-3-0[3] He began studying Ibn 'Arabi under the Romanian traditionalist Michel Valsan.cite-ref-0-1-1[1]

He served as Director-General and then President and CEO of Editions du Seuil from 1977 to 1989.cite-ref-0-1-2[1]cite-ref-4[4] In 1982, he became director of studies at the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales where he conducted seminars on Ibn 'Arabi and Abd al-Karim al-Jili.cite-ref-0-1-3[1]

He died 31 March 2020 in the town of Les Hauts-d'Anjou.cite-ref-1-3-1[3]

• Émir Abd el-Kader, Écrits spirituels, presentation, translation and notes, Seuil, 1982; reprint 1994.

• Awhad al-Din Balyani, Épître sur l'Unicité absolue, presentation, translation and notes, Les Deux Océans, 1982.

• Le Sceau des Saints, Prophétie et Sainteté dans la doctrine d'Ibn 'Arabî, Éditions Gallimard, 1986; reprint 2012.

• Ibn 'Arabî, Les Illuminations de La Mecque, texts chosen from al-Futûhât al-Makkîya (in collaboration with W.C. Chittick, C. Chodkiewicz, D. Gril and J.W. Morris), Sindbad, 1988; reprint with subtitle Anthologie présentée par Michel Chodkiewicz, Albin Michel/Spiritualités vivantes, 2008.

• Un Océan sans rivage. Ibn 'Arabî, le Livre et la Loi, Éditions du Seuil, 1992.

• The Spiritual Writings of Amir 'Abd al-Kader (1982).

• The Seal of the Saints: Prophethood and Sainthood in the Doctrine of Ibn Arabi (1986).

• Ibn 'Arabî: The Meccan Revelations (translation of selected chapters, 1988)

• An Ocean Without Shore: Ibn Arabi, the Book, and the Law (1992)

cite-note-0-11. ↑ citerefnotcutt2020Notcutt, Martin (2020-09-01). "Michel Chodkiewicz". Muhyiddin Ibn Arabi Society. Retrieved 2023-04-03.

cite-note-22. ↑ "French Islamic Thinker, Michel Chodkiewicz, Passed Away". Karar.com. 2020-04-01. Retrieved 2020-04-02.

cite-note-1-33. ↑ citerefgaborieaumourr-got2021Gaborieau, Marc; Mourrégot, Marie-France (2021-12-04). "In memoriam Michel Chodkiewicz (1929-2020)". Archives de sciences sociales des religions (in French) (196): 9–16. doi:10.4000/assr.59908. ISSN 0335-5985.

cite-note-44. ↑ citerefchodkiewiczChodkiewicz, Michel. "Chodkiewicz". Catalogue général.

• Michel Chodkiewicz 1929–2020 at The Muhyiddin Ibn ‘Arabi Society (MIAS).