The MIAS Blog: News and Views about Ibn Arabi

The Horizons of Being

August 8, 2020

The Metaphysics of Ibn al-ʿArabī in the Muqaddimat al-Qayṣarī, edited by Mukhtar H. Ali, has been published by Brill in Hardback and E-Book editions on 18 June 2020.

One of the most neglected issues

July 19, 2020

Eric Winkel contributes a comment on a quotation from the Futūḥāt to the MIAS blog.

Reading Circles in MIAS Latina

June 27, 2020

Pablo Beneito shares his experience of Círculos de Lectura Ibn Arabi (bn 'Arabi Reading Circles) in MIAS Latina.

French translation of Fusûs al-Hikam

June 12, 2020

A new translation of the Fusûs al-Hikam into French by Paul Ballanfat was published in May 2020.

Keith Critchlow, 1933–2020

May 22, 2020

Professor Keith Critchlow, artist, inspirational teacher and groundbreaking geometer and architectural designer, died peacefully on 8th April 2020.

Register now for the ten-week course exploring the multi-layered meanings in Ibn ‘Arabi’s spiritual teaching through chapters of the Meccan Openings. It is led by Dr. Rim Feriani, and runs between 25th May and 27th July 2020.

Young Writer Award 2019

March 31, 2020

We are delighted to announce that Hina Khalid, a student at the University of Cambridge, UK, is the winner of the 2019 MIAS Young Writer Award. The judges have also mentioned Muhammad Faruque, a student at Fordham University, USA, who is given a special commendation, and Esmé Partridge, who is given a commendation.

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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).