Born in erfurt to a protestant family, she started learning arabic at the age of fifteen and studied arabic, persian, and turkish beginning in 1939 in berlin, where she completed her ph. In the original foreword, annemarie schimmel described the dauntingly. Topics sufism collection opensource language english. In a field where textbooks are often beyond the comprehension of the general reading public, where the byword of academic rigor often results in books that even undergraduates cannot fathom, often the only alternative is the pulp journalism characteristic of international correspondents who base their credibility on a few trips to the near and middle east. She was multilingualbesides german, english, and turkish, she spoke arabic, persian, urdu, and punjabiand her interests ranged across the muslim.
Schimmels numerous books and articles show a re markably wide range of knowledge in all kinds of cultural phenomena, both islamic and western. Read and muhammad is his messenger the veneration of the prophet in islamic piety by annemarie schimmel available from rakuten kobo. Annemarie schimmels most popular book is mystical dimensions of islam. She begins with an informative and often surprising introduction to the origins of number systems. Internationally renowned, she was a professor at harvard university from 1967 to 1992. University of north carolina press, schimmel discusses aspects of his life, birth, marriage, miracles, and annemarie schimmel explains the central place of muhammad in. Through her sensitivity and deep understanding of the subject, annemarie schimmel, an eminent scholar of eastern religions, draws the reader into the mood, the vision, the way of the sufi in a manner that adds an. And muhammad is his messenger ebook by annemarie schimmel. Annemarie schimmel 19222003 was one of the leading experts on islamic literature and mysticism sufism in the world. Annemarie brigitte schimmel, who died aged 80 on 26th january 2003, was the.
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