The MIAS Blog: News and Views about Ibn Arabi

Rasail Ibn al Arabi – new editions

January 5, 2022

New editions of 11 shorter works by Ibn Arabi have been published by the Ibn Arabi Foundation.

Critical Edition of Ibn ‘Arabi’s Diwān

July 1, 2021

A critical edition of the text of Ibn al-ʿArabī's Diwān, edited by ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz Sulṭān al-Manṣūb, has been published by Ninawa, Damascus, Syria; in five hardback volumes.

The Openings Revealed in Makkah

June 23, 2021

On June 23, Pir Press launched Volume 3 of The Openings Revealed in Makkah, Books 5 & 6 of the English translation by Eric Winkel of al-Futuhat al-Makkiyah.

Translator of Desires – Michael Sells

May 21, 2021

In The Translator of Desires, Michael Sells presents the first complete English translation of the Tarjumān al-Ashwaq since the 1911 translation by R.A. Nicholson, together with the Arabic text.

Ibn al-‘Arabî – Kıtâb al-’Isrâ

March 5, 2021

A translation into French of a work by Ibn 'Arabi about his spiritual ascension (mi‘râj), which also draws on the commentary of his companion, Ibn Sawdakîn.

Shaykh Mahmud Ghurab

February 6, 2021

We have learned of the death of Shaykh Mahmud Ghurab in Cairo on 31st January 2021. His books in Arabic brought the life and work of Ibn 'Arabi within reach of a broad public.

From Chapter 52 of the Futūhāt

December 4, 2020

Understanding the weakness of the human being - and lowliness, needfulness, the human being's search for its survival, and the need for its Creator.

Sufism and the Perfect Human

October 9, 2020

Fitzroy Morrissey's book details how ‘Abd al-Karim al-Jili expanded on this key subject in Ibn 'Arabi's writing.

Michel Chodkiewicz – A Legacy

September 1, 2020

Michel Chodkiewicz contributed immensely to the knowledge of Ibn Arabi in our time. We publish here the opening of Denis Gril's obituary from Volume 67 of the Society Journal.

Discovering Compassion

August 28, 2020

James Morris puts in context a quotation from Ibn ‘Arabi on discovering and deepening Compassion.

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Michel Chodkiewicz 1929–2020

We have recently learned, with great sadness, of the passing of Michel Chodkiewicz on 31 March 2020.

His contribution to knowledge of Ibn ‘Arabi in our time has been immense. He was a great friend of the Muhyiddin Ibn Arabi Society, and an Honorary Fellow of longstanding.

Michel Chodkiewicz at Editions du Seuil 1987. Source: Wikimedia Commons

For a complete list of all his articles on this website, please click:

Michel Chodkiewicz

Michel Chodkiewicz (1929–2020) was a French author and a scholar of Sufism, especially of Akbarian teaching. He was Director General then President and CEO of Editions du Seuil from 1977 to 1989 and director of studies at the École des Haute Études en Sciences Sociales, where he conducted seminars on Ibn 'Arabi.

Among his major books in translation are The Seal of the Saints: Prophethood and Sainthood in the Doctrine of Ibn Arabi (1986), Ibn Arabi: The Meccan Revelations (translation of selected chapters, 1988) and An Ocean Without Shore: Ibn Arabi, the Book, and the Law (1992).