Claude Addas is a French-Polish scholar of Islam who has made major contributions to the field of Ibn Arabi studies.
Claude Addas is the daughter of the Islamic scholar Michel Chodkeiwicz.
[2] 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 on Ibn 'Arabi and published in 1993.
[3] William Chittick described Quest for the Red Sulphur as "the best and most thoroughly documented account" of Ibn Arabi's life.
[4] Gregory Lipton described her as "Ibn Arabi's preeminent Western biographer".