Guiding Western readers through the endlessly fascinating and complicated system of Islamic personal names, Annemarie Schimmel's directory touches upon almost every aspect of Islamic life.
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. |
