About Claude Addas
Born 1957. Claude Addas is an academic, islamicist and philosopher.
Claude Addas is a French-Polish scholar of Islam who has made major contributions to the field of Ibn Arabi studies.
Biography
Addas is the daughter of the Islamic scholar Michel Chodkeiwicz. As a child, Addas refused her father's wish to learn Latin, instead agreeing to study Arabic as a compromise. Addas earned a degree in Arabic and Persian.
She is the author of the 1989 book , 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. Gregory Lipton described her as "Ibn Arabi's preeminent Western biographer".
Works
. Gallimard, 1989, , Le Seuil 1996, , Gallimard, 2015,
Works translated to English
Quest for the Red Sulphur: The Life of Ibn 'Arabi. Islamic Texts Society, 1993, Ibn 'Arabi: The Voyage of No Return. Islamic Texts Society, 2000,
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French-Polish scholar of Islam
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Claude Addas is an academic, islamicist and philosopher.
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