Claude Addas is a French-Polish scholar of

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who has made major contributions to the field of

Ibn Arabi Ibn Arabi (July 1165–November 1240) was an Andalusian Sunni Sunni Islam is the largest branch of Islam and the largest religious denomination in the world. It holds that Muhammad did not appoint any successor and that his closest com ...

studies.

Biography

Claude Addas is the daughter of the Islamic scholar Michel Chodkeiwicz. Addas earned a degree in

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and

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. 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 William Clark Chittick (born June 29, 1943) is an American philosopher, writer, translator, and interpreter of classical Islamic philosophical and mystical texts. He is best known for his work on Rumi and Ibn 'Arabi, and has written extensively ...

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

* Ibn ʻArabī, ou, La quête du soufre rouge. Gallimard, 1989, * Ibn Arabî et le voyage sans retour, Le Seuil 1996, * La Maison muhammadienne: Aperçus de la dévotion au Prophète en mystique musulmane, Gallimard, 2015,

Works translated to English

* ''Quest for the Red Sulphur: The Life of Ibn 'Arabi''.

Islamic Texts Society The Islamic Texts Society (ITS) is a peer-reviewed, British publishing house which concentrates on academic and general titles on Islam. It is registered as an educational charity in the UK. History The Islamic Texts Society was founded in Cam ...

, 1993, * ''Ibn 'Arabi: The Voyage of No Return''. Islamic Texts Society, 2000, Reviews of ''Ibn 'Arabi: The Voyage of No Return'' *

References

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