Anne Marie Schimmel (7 April 1922 – 26 January 2003)

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Anne Marie Schimmel (7 April 1922 – 26 January 2003) German Researcher and Writer is one of the 20th century's most influential Orientalist and scholars of Islam. Dozens of books and hundreds of articles are the fruit of the efforts of this Orientalist lady.

Anne Marie Schimmel German Researcher Orientalist

Anne Marie Schimmel (7 April 1922 – 26 January 2003) German Researcher and Writer is one of the 20th century's most influential Orientalist and scholars of Islam. Dozens of books and hundreds of articles are the fruit of the efforts of this Orientalist lady.

Anne Marie Schimmel was born to Protestant and highly cultured middle-class parents in Erfurt, Germany. Her father Paul was a postal worker and her mother Anna belonged to a family with connections to seafaring and international trade. When she was about 15 years old she began learning Arabic. At age 16, Schimmel graduated from high school and studied Arabic and Islamic studies at the University of Berlin and graduated in 1941 with a PhD degree.

Mrs. Schimmel was then employed as translator and then as a professor of Islamic sciences at the University of Marburg. In 1954, she was invited to Ankara University, where she was appointed Professor of the History of Religion. She was the first woman and the first non-Muslim to teach theology at the university. In 1961, she returned to Germany and was appointed professor of Arabic and Islamic studies at the University of Bonn. Mrs. Schimmel also taught at Harvard University in 1967, and at the same time, he worked as a guest professor at the other universities in India, Pakistan and turkey

She was multilingual—besides German, English, and Turkish, she spoke Arabic, Persian, Urdu, and Punjabi. She published more than fifty books and hundreds of articles on Islamic literature, mysticism, and culture, and she translated Persian, Urdu, Arabic, Sindhi, and Turkish poetry and literature into English and German.

After leaving Harvard, she returned to Germany, where she lived in Bonn. Finally, Anna-Maria Schimmel died on January 26, 2003, and wrote on his grave a hadith from Amir al-Mu'minin (AS) that: "النَّاسِ نِیَامٌ فَإِذَا مَاتُوا انْتَبَهُوا; People Are Asleep They Wake Up When They Die." [1]

Some of her famous works are:

As Through a Veil: Mystical Poetry in Islam

And Muhammad Is His Messenger: The Veneration of the Prophet in Islamic Piety

Deciphering the Signs of God: A Phenomenological Approach to Islam

Mystical Dimensions of Islam (512 pages)

Islamic Literatures of India

We Believe in One God

Classical Urdu Literature

Notes:

1.Bihar al-Anwar, vole 4, p 43, h 18.

Anne MarieSchimmel     German Researcher     Islamic scholar

"النَّاسِ نِیَامٌ فَإِذَا مَاتُوا انْتَبَهُوا; People Are Asleep They Wake Up When They Die

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