Thread by @mullasadra

just heard that Michel Chodkiewicz (1929-2020), a true giant in Ibn ʿArabī studies passed away today
ibnarabisociety.org/articles/diffu…
الى رحمة الله

he wrote two major works on Ibn ʿArabī - Un océan sans rivage seuil.com/ouvrage/un-oce… and Sceau des saints lescahiersdelislam.fr/Michel-Chodkie… on the doctrine of prophecy and walāya 2/

He also edited a collective of translations of some chapters from the #MeccanRevelations albin-michel.fr/ouvrages/les-i… 3/

Apart from his many students and disciples (whether at #EHESS or elsewhere) - and his own Sufi affiliations - he also contributed studies of the great Akbarian Sufi and anti-colonial hero Amīr ʿAbd al-Qādir (1808-1883) and on his Kitāb al-mawāqif seuil.com/ouvrage/ecrits… 4/

I never knew him personally - plenty of friends especially those who work on Ibn ʿArabī knew him well - but through his work at Editions du Seuil he did much to further serious academic but accessible studies on #IslamicThought 5/

Here is a reflection by a former student and 'islamologue' Genevieve Gobillot persee.fr/doc/horma_0984… 6/

When I wrote a short piece on the treatise attributed to Ibn ʿArabī, I contacted Chittick, Morris, Gril, and Chodkiewicz - he immediately figured out that the text was not only a misattribution but told me where I could find it in an old Cairo publication 7/

I know of his intellectual generosity from other colleagues and former students including the late Christian Bonaud, who also sadly passed into the mercy of his Lord last year 8/

here is an English translation from Le Monde of Christian Jambet's review of Un océan as well as an interview on Sufism archipress.org/?page_id=399

I'd like to hear from others about his Sufi affiliations - I always assumed via the interest in Ibn ʿArabī, he has been associated with the Shādhilī Shaykh Muḥammad al-Hāshimī (d. 1961) as well as the Naqshbandī Shaykh Aḥmad Kaftārū (d. 2004) the former mufti of Syria ?

I have a copy of Hāshimī's explanation of Shaṭranj al-ʿārifīn attributed to Ibn ʿArabī (but in the office...) - feel like one ought to be playing it in homage - to be put it crassly a Sufi snakes and ladders