Michel Chodkiewicz


Michel Chodkiewicz was a French author and a scholar of Sufism, especially Akbarian teaching.

Early life

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. He was Director-General then President and CEO of Editions du Seuil from 1977 to 1989. He became director of studies at the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales where he conducted seminars on Ibn 'Arabi.
He converted to Islam as the "outcome of a personal search begun as a teenager because Catholicism did not provide satisfactory answers". During a trip to the Arab countries, he discovered Sufism and converted to Islam around the age of seventeen.

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