# Michel Chodkiewicz

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{{Short description|French author and Sufi scholar (1929–2020)}}
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| name               = Michel Chodkiewicz
| image              = Michel-Chodkiewicz.jpg
| caption            = Chodkiewicz at [Editions du Seuil](/source/Editions_du_Seuil), 1987
| birth_date         = {{birth date|df=y|1929|05|13}}
| birth_place        = [Paris](/source/Paris), [France](/source/France)
| death_date         = {{death date and age|df=y|2020|03|31|1929|05|13}}
| known_for          = Scholar of Sufism
| children           = [Claude Addas](/source/Claude_Addas)
}}

'''Michel Chodkiewicz''' (13 May 1929 – 31 March 2020) was a French scholar of [Sufism](/source/Sufism), particularly the works of [Ibn 'Arabi](/source/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](/source/Chodkiewicz) family, a noble family of the [Polish](/source/Polish_people) 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](/source/Catholic_Church) 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](/source/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](/source/Romanians) [traditionalist](/source/Traditionalist_School_(perennialism)) [Michel Valsan](/source/Michel_Valsan).<ref name=":0" />

He served as Director-General and then President and CEO of ''[Editions du Seuil](/source/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](/source/School_for_Advanced_Studies_in_the_Social_Sciences) where he conducted seminars on [Ibn 'Arabi](/source/Ibn_Arabi) and [Abd al-Karim al-Jili](/source/Abd_al-Karim_al-Jili).<ref name=":0" />

He died 31 March 2020 in the town of [Les Hauts-d'Anjou](/source/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](/source/%C3%89ditions_Gallimard), 1986; reprint 2012.
* Ibn 'Arabî, ''[Les Illuminations de La Mecque](/source/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](/source/%C3%89ditions_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 ==
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==See also==
* [https://ibnarabisociety.org/michel-chodkiewicz-1929-2020/ Michel Chodkiewicz 1929–2020] at The Muhyiddin Ibn ‘Arabi Society (MIAS).

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