This book “Make a shield from Wisdom” is the translation of selected verses from Nasir-i-Khusraw’s Divan, by Annemarie Schimmel, who was the Emeritus professor of Indo Muslim Culture at Harvard University and Honorary professor at the University of Bonn. She has a wide range of books published on Islamic literature, mysticism and culture and has also translated work from Persian, Urdu, Arabic and Turkish into English and German.
Nasir-i-Khusraw was a Persian poet and thinker, and is quite well known among the historians of modern and medieval Islam.
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