Gabriel’s wing ( A study in to the religious ideas of Sir Muhmammad Iqbal)

Gabriel’s wing

A STUDY INTO THE RELIGIOUS IDEAS OF SIR MUHAMMAD IQBAL

The Authoress and her Work:
Prof. Dr. Annemarie Schimmel was born in Erfurt, Germany in 1922. Her academic career was given an
auspicious start when at the unusually early, age of 19, she received her Ph.D. in Islamic studies from the Berlin
University. From 1954 to 1959 she worked at the University of Ankara in Turkey as Professor of History of
Religion. From 1967 till her retirement she taught at the University of Bonn and Harvard University, USA, becoming a Professor of Indo-Muslim Culture in 1970. After her retirement in 1992, she
came back to Germany. At Present she is the Honorary Professor of Islamic Studies, at the University of Bonn, Germany. Prof. Dr. Annemarie Schimmel is a profound scholar and a prolific writer.
Her publications are numerous and in various languages. The remarkable breadth of her linguistic expertise includes English, German, French, Arabic, Persian, Urdu, Turkish and many other languages, while the span of her academic interests encompasses a variety of subjects ranging from Islamic Calligraphy to the study of Muslim mystical poets of the South-Asian Subcontinent. Her main interestA and one can say her heart, lies, however, in the translation into German verse of Arabic, Persian, Turkish and Urdu poetry, a pursuit that has won for her different international medals for
outstanding translations.