Orient and Occident: My Life in East and West
by Annemarie Schimmel (Sitara-e-Imtiaz and Hilal-e-Imtiaz)
Translated from German into English by Karin Mittmann
About the Author:
Annemarie Schimmel (7 April 1922 – 26 January 2003) was an influential German Orientalist and scholar who wrote extensively on Islam and Sufism. Internationally renowned, she was a professor at Harvard University from 1967 to 1992.
For her works on Islam, Sufism, and Muhammad Iqbal, a prominent philosopher and national poet of Pakistan, the government of Pakistan honored Schimmel with its highest civil awards,
– Sitara-e-Imtiaz, or Star of Excellence, by Government of Pakistan
– Hilal-e-Imtiaz, or Crescent of Excellence,[6] by Government of Pakistan,
She was given other awards from many countries of the world, including the 1995 prestigious Peace Prize of the German Book Trade. This award caused a controversy in Germany, as she had defended the outrage of the Islamic world against Salman Rushdie, author of The Satanic Verses (1988), a novel, in a television interview. Schimmel’s award speech is available online in translation, entitled “A Good Word Is Like a Good Tree.”
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