Michel Chodkiewicz
Michel Chodkiewicz (13 May 1929 – 31 March 2020) was a French author and a scholar of Sufism, especially Akbarian teaching. Biography. 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. His daughter is Claude Addas. Bibliography. Chodkiewicz's books were written in French. Below are some of his books that have been translated into English.