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Annemarie Schimmel, SI, HI, (April 7, 1922 – January 26, 2003) was a well known and very influential German Iranologist and scholar who wrote extensively on Islam and Sufism.
   She received a doctorate in Islamic languages and civilization from the University of Berlin at the age of nineteen. At twenty-three, she became a professor of Arabic and Islamic studies at the University of Marburg (Germany) in 1946, where she earned a second doctorate in the history of religions in 1954.
   A turning point in her life came in 1954 when she was appointed Professor of the History of Religion at the University of Ankara (Turkey). There she spent five years teaching in Turkish and immersing herself in the culture and mystical tradition of the country. She was a faculty member at Harvard University from 1967 to 1992 and became Professor Emerita of Indo-Muslim Culture upon her retirement. She was also an honorary professor at the University of Bonn. She published more than 100 books on Islamic literature, mysticism and culture, and translated Persian, Urdu, Arabic, Sindhi and Turkish poetry and literature into English and German.
   For her work on Islam, Sufism or mysticism and Muhammad Iqbal, the government of Pakistan honored her with one of its highest civil awards of known as Hilal-e-Imtiaz or 'Crescent of Excellence'. She was showered with many other awards from many countries of the world, including Leopold Lucas Prize of the Evangelisch-Theologische Faculty of the University of Tübingen and 1995 prestigious Peace Prize of the German Book Trade. This award caused a controversy in Germany, as she'd defended the outrage of the Islamic world against Salman Rushdie in a TV-interview.

Works by Annemarie Schimmel

As Through A Veil
And Muhammad Is His Messenger: The Veneration of the Prophet in Islamic Piety
A Dance of Sparks: Imagery of Fire in Ghalib's Poetry
A Two-Colored Brocade: The Imagery of Persian Poetry
Deciphering the Signs of God: A Phenomenological Approach to Islam (1991-1992 Gifford Lectures, online)
Gabriel's Wing: Study into the Religious Ideas of Sir Muhammad Iqbal
Mystical Dimensions of Islam
Rumi's World : The Life and Works of the Greatest Sufi Poet
Look! This Is Love
The Triumphal Sun: A Study of the Works of Jalaloddinn Rumi
Islam: An Introduction
Islamic Calligraphy
Make A Shield From Wisdom : Selected Verses from Nasir-i Khusraw's Divan
Ernst Trumpp;: A brief account of his life and work
The Mystery of Numbers
Islam and the Wonders of Creation: The Animal Kingdom. (2003)

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