Claude Addas
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| name = Claude Addas
| nationality = French
| occupation = Islamic scholar
| notable_works = Quest for the Red Sulphur: The Life of Ibn 'Arabi
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Claude Addas is a French-Polish scholar of Islam who has made major contributions to the field of Ibn Arabi studies.
Biography
Claude Addas is the daughter of the Islamic scholar Michel Chodkeiwicz.{{Cite web|title=Michel Chodkiewicz (1929-2020)|url=https://ibnarabisociety.org/p-a-gril-michel-chodkiewicz-1929-2020/|access-date=2021-10-23|website=Muhyiddin Ibn Arabi Society|date=18 August 2020 |language=en-GB}} Addas earned a degree in Arabic and Persian.{{Cite web|title=Contributors|url=https://ibnarabisociety.org/contributors/|access-date=2021-10-23|website=Muhyiddin Ibn Arabi Society|date=27 November 2019 |language=en-GB}}
She is the author of the 1989 book Ibn ʻArabī, ou, La quête du soufre rouge, a biography of Ibn Arabi, which was translated into English by Peter Kingsley as Quest for the Red Sulphur: The Life on Ibn 'Arabi and published in 1993. William Chittick described Quest for the Red Sulphur as "the best and most thoroughly documented account" of Ibn Arabi's life.{{Cite book|last1=Leaman|first1=Oliver|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=6Q72DwAAQBAJ&dq=claude+addas&pg=PT343|title=History of Islamic Philosophy|last2=Nasr|first2=Seyyed Hossein|publisher=Routledge|year=2001|isbn=9780231132213|language=English}} Gregory Lipton described her as "Ibn Arabi's preeminent Western biographer".
She is also the author of Ibn Arabî et le voyage sans retour, which was translated into English as Ibn 'Arabi: The Voyage of No Return.{{Cite book|last=Lipton|first=Gregory|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=HqZTDwAAQBAJ&dq=ibn%27arabi+et+le+voyage+sans+retour+quest+for+the+red+sulphur&pg=PA190|title=Rethinking Ibn 'Arabi|publisher=Oxford University Press|year=2018|isbn=9780190684518|pages=190|language=English}}
Works
- Ibn ʻArabī, ou, La quête du soufre rouge. Gallimard, 1989, {{ISBN|2-07-071504-3}} Reviews of Ibn ʻArabī, ou, La quête du soufre rouge
- {{cite journal|last=Décobert|first=Christian|year=1990|title=Ibn 'Arabi, ou, La quête du soufre rouge|journal=Esprit|publisher=Editions Esprit|volume=161|issue=5|pages=162–164}}
- Morris, James W (1989). "Ibn 'Arabî, ou, la quête du soufre rouge". Studia Islamica. Brill. 70: 185 - 187
- Giordani, Demetrio (1989). "Ibn 'Arabî, ou, la quête du soufre rouge" Rivista degli studi orientali. Sapienza - Universita di Roma. 63 (4): 350 - 352
- Hassan, Elboudrari (1994). "Ibn 'Arabî, ou, la quête du soufre rouge" Annales. EHESS. 49 (4): 980 - 982
- Ibn Arabî et le voyage sans retour, Le Seuil 1996, {{ISBN|978-2-02-025126-6}} Reviews of Ibn Arabî et le voyage sans retour
- {{cite journal | last=Gobillot | first=Genevieve | title=Ibn 'Arabî et le voyage sans retour
| journal=Studia Islamica | publisher=Brill| volume=86 | year=1997 | pages=193–195| doi=10.2307/1595826 | jstor=1595826 }}
- La Maison muhammadienne: Aperçus de la dévotion au Prophète en mystique musulmane, Gallimard, 2015, {{ISBN|2-07-014763-0}}
= Works translated to English =
- Quest for the Red Sulphur: The Life of Ibn 'Arabi. Islamic Texts Society, 1993, {{ISBN|0-946621-45-4}}Reviews of Quest for the Red Sulphur: The Life of Ibn 'Arabi
- {{cite journal | last=Elmore | first=Gerald | title=Quest for the Red Sulphur: The Life of Ibn 'Arabi
| journal=Journal of Near Eastern Studies | publisher=University of Chicago Press | volume=57 | issue=3 | year=1998 | pages=218| doi=10.1086/468640 }}
- {{cite journal | last=Schimmel | first=Annemarie | title=Quest for the Red Sulphur: The Life of Ibn 'Arabi
| journal=Journal of Islamic Studies | publisher=Oxford University Press | volume=6 | issue=2 | year=1995 | pages=269| doi=10.1093/jis/6.2.269 }}
- {{cite journal | last=Regenspan | first=David | title=Quest for the Red Sulphur: The Life of Ibn 'Arabi
| journal=Digest of Middle East Studies | publisher=Wiley-Blackwell | volume=4 | issue=1 | year=1995 | pages=54–57| doi=10.1111/j.1949-3606.1995.tb01053.x }}
- {{cite journal | last=Lahood| first=Gabriel | title=Quest for the Red Sulphur: The Life of Ibn 'Arabi
| journal=Middle East Studies Association Bulletin | publisher=Middle East Studies Association of North America (MESA)| volume=29 | issue=1 | year=1995 | pages=82–83| doi=10.1017/S0026318400030911 }}
- Ibn 'Arabi: The Voyage of No Return. Islamic Texts Society, 2000, {{ISBN|0-946621-74-8}} Reviews of Ibn 'Arabi: The Voyage of No Return
- {{cite journal | last=Chitick| first=William C | title=Ibn 'Arabi: The Voyage of No Return
| journal=Islamic Studies | publisher= Islamic Research Institute, International Islamic University, Islamabad |volume=43 | issue=3 | year=2004 | pages=511–513}}
References
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