Claude Addas is a French-Polish scholar of Islam who has made major contributions to the field of Ibn Arabi studies.
Biography
Claude Addas is the daughter of the Islamic scholar Michel Chodkeiwicz.
Addas earned a degree in
Arabic and
Persian language.
She is the author of the 1989 book Ibn ʻArabī, ou, La quête du soufre rouge, a biography of Ibn Arabi, which was translated into English by Peter Kingsley as Quest for the Red Sulphur: The Life of Ibn 'Arabi and published in 1993 . William Chittick described Quest for the Red Sulphur as "the best and most thoroughly documented account" of Ibn Arabi's life. Gregory Lipton described her as "Ibn Arabi's preeminent Western biographer".
She is also the author of Ibn Arabî et le voyage sans retour, which was translated into English as Ibn 'Arabi: The Voyage of No Return.
Works
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Ibn ʻArabī, ou, La quête du soufre rouge. Gallimard, 1989,
[ Reviews of Ibn ʻArabī, ou, La quête du soufre rouge
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Morris, James W (1989). "Ibn 'Arabî, ou, la quête du soufre rouge". Studia Islamica. Brill. 70: 185 - 187
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Giordani, Demetrio (1989). "Ibn 'Arabî, ou, la quête du soufre rouge" Rivista degli studi orientali. Sapienza - Universita di Roma. 63 (4): 350 - 352
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Hassan, Elboudrari (1994). "Ibn 'Arabî, ou, la quête du soufre rouge" Annales. EHESS. 49 (4): 980 - 982
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Ibn Arabî et le voyage sans retour, Le Seuil 1996,
[ Reviews of Ibn Arabî et le voyage sans retour
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La Maison muhammadienne: Aperçus de la dévotion au Prophète en mystique musulmane, Gallimard, 2015,
Works translated to English
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Quest for the Red Sulphur: The Life of Ibn 'Arabi. Islamic Texts Society, 1993,
[Reviews of Quest for the Red Sulphur: The Life of Ibn 'Arabi
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Ibn 'Arabi: The Voyage of No Return. Islamic Texts Society, 2000,
[ Reviews of Ibn 'Arabi: The Voyage of No Return
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