The German Islamic scholar, orientalist, writer and translator Annemarie Schimmel, who was born on April 7, 1922 in Erfurt and died on January 26, 2003 in Bonn, has published numerous works about the Orient, Islam and Sufism, as well as important translations from Arabic and Turkish , Persian, Urdu, Pashto, Dari and Sindhi.
Growing up in a "house full of poetry," Annemarie Schimmel encountered the "Orient of mystical wisdom" from an early age. At just 15, she received not only Arabic lessons from the orientalist, journalist, and lecturer at the University of Jena, Dr. Hans Ellenberg (nicknamed "Effendi"), but also an introduction to Islamic studies and the history of the Orient. Even then, she was fascinated by "the mystical piety of Islam," which she learned through Rückert's adaptations of texts by the medieval Persian mystic Jalal ad-Din Muhammad Rumi (Maulana).
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