Annemarie Schimmel was a leading German Islamist, orientalist, scholar, researcher, literary figure, fertile writer and an authoress of more than hundred books. She was well-known throughout the Islamic and the western world for her extra-ordinary talents, mystical and innovative writings. Furthermore, she translated Persian, Urdu, Arabic, Turkish and Sindhi works into English and German. She is also widely known as an authority on Sufism.
Orient and Occident (My life in East and West) is an autobiography of Annemarie Schimmel written in 2001/02 translated in English by Karin Mittmannand published by Iqbal Academy Pakistan in 2007.
In her book, she has mostly discussed her academic activities of entire life. Hence she named it ‘A life as one woman show’ because her whole work is a bounty of personal effort.
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