Professor Schimmel has written a highly fascinating and stimulating book regarding Allah in nature, the heavens and the earth, literature, mysticism, metaphysics, poetry, mainstream religion, his veneration, signs and reality pointing to his actual existance, the Quran and its miracles, The Prophet and his miracles, the prophets, - all geared towards giving the reader an understanding of what Allah is, and why the Muslim believes. An excellent and enlightening read, with full appendix footnotes and quotes from all areas of Islam and the Islamic World, hadith, hadith qudsi, Quran, literature by figures ranging from Mystics such as Al Hallaj to Jurists such as Ibn Taymiyyah. A must for any student of Islam or for the layman wanting a sounder understanding of a Muslims belief in the one allmighty god.
About the author
Annemarie Schimmel (1922-2003) was a renowned German scholar of Islam and author of eighty books, including Mystical Dimensions of Islam and A Two-Colored Brocade: The Imagery of Persian Poetry, Islam: An Introduction, also published by SUNY Press, and the editor of the SUNY Press series, Muslim spiritualty in South Asia.She was a Professor in the Departement of Near Eastern Languages at Harvard University. |
