{{Short description|French author and Sufi scholar (1929–2020)}} {{More citations needed|date=January 2019}} {{Infobox person | name = Michel Chodkiewicz | image = Michel-Chodkiewicz.jpg | 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}} | known_for = Scholar of Sufism | children = Claude Addas }}
'''Michel Chodkiewicz''' (13 May 1929 – 31 March 2020) was a French scholar of Sufism, particularly the works of Ibn 'Arabi.<ref name=":0">{{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}}</ref>
== 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.<ref>{{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}}</ref> Chodkiewicz converted to Islam from Roman Catholicism at age 17.<ref name=":1">{{Cite journal |last1=Gaborieau |first1=Marc |last2=Mourrégot |first2=Marie-France |date=2021-12-04 |title=In memoriam Michel Chodkiewicz (1929-2020) |journal=Archives de sciences sociales des religions |volume=196 |language=fr |issue=196 |pages=9–16 |doi=10.4000/assr.59908 |issn=0335-5985|doi-access=free }}</ref> He began studying Ibn 'Arabi under the Romanian traditionalist Michel Valsan.<ref name=":0" />
He served as Director-General and then President and CEO of ''Editions du Seuil'' from 1977 to 1989.<ref name=":0" /><ref>{{cite web |last1=Chodkiewicz |first1=Michel |title=Chodkiewicz |url=https://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb118967289.public |website=Catalogue général}}</ref> 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.<ref name=":0" />
He died 31 March 2020 in the town of Les Hauts-d'Anjou.<ref name=":1" />
== 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)
== References == {{Reflist}}
==See also== * [https://ibnarabisociety.org/michel-chodkiewicz-1929-2020/ Michel Chodkiewicz 1929–2020] at The Muhyiddin Ibn ‘Arabi Society (MIAS).
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