Michel Chodkiewicz | |
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Born | |
Died | 31 March 2020 | (aged 90)
Nationality | French |
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.[1]
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.[2] Chodkiewicz converted to Islam at age 17.[3] He began studying Ibn 'Arabi under the Romanian traditionalist Michel Valsan.[1]
He served as Director-General and then President and CEO of Editions du Seuil from 1977 to 1989.[1][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.[1]
He died 31 March 2020 in the town of Les Hauts-d'Anjou.[3]