Michel Chodkiewicz

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| caption = Chodkiewicz at Editions du Seuil, 1987

| birth_date = {{birth date|df=y|1929|05|13}}

| birth_place = Paris, France

| death_date = {{death date and age|df=y|2020|03|31|1929|05|13}}

| nationality = French

| known_for = Scholar of Sufism

| children = Claude Addas

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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 web |last=Notcutt |first=Martin |date=2020-09-01 |title=Michel Chodkiewicz |url=https://ibnarabisociety.org/michel-chodkiewicz-a-legacy/ |access-date=2023-04-03 |website=Muhyiddin Ibn Arabi Society |language=en-GB}}

Biography

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 web|url=https://www.karar.com/fransiz-islam-dusunuru-michel-chodkiewicz-vefat-etti-1553564|title=French Islamic Thinker, Michel Chodkiewicz, Passed Away|last=|first=|date=2020-04-01|website=Karar.com|archive-url=|archive-date=|access-date=2020-04-02}} Chodkiewicz converted to Islam at age 17.{{Cite journal |last1=Gaborieau |first1=Marc |last2=Mourrégot |first2=Marie-France |date=2021-12-04 |title=In memoriam Michel Chodkiewicz (1929-2020) |url=https://journals.openedition.org/assr/59908 |journal=Archives de sciences sociales des religions |language=fr |issue=196 |pages=9–16 |doi=10.4000/assr.59908 |issn=0335-5985|doi-access=free |url-access=subscription }} He began studying Ibn 'Arabi under the Romanian traditionalist Michel Valsan.

He served as Director-General and then President and CEO of Editions du Seuil from 1977 to 1989.{{cite web |last1=Chodkiewicz |first1=Michel |title=Chodkiewicz |url=https://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb118967289.public |website=Catalogue général}} 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.

He died 31 March 2020 in the town of Les Hauts-d'Anjou.

Publications

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.

= Translations =

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)

Michel Chodkiewicz

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