Review of Doğudan Batıya [Orient and Occident: My Life in East and West] by Annemarie Schimmel: A Review of the Book and Its Translation, trans. by Ömer Enis Akbulut Cover Image

Doğudan Batıya, Yazar Annemarie Schimmel, çev. Ömer Enis Akbulut
Review of Doğudan Batıya [Orient and Occident: My Life in East and West] by Annemarie Schimmel: A Review of the Book and Its Translation, trans. by Ömer Enis Akbulut

Author(s): Muhammet Tarakçı
Subject(s): Theology and Religion, Book-Review, History of Religion
Published by: Cumhuriyet Üniversitesi İlahyat Fakültesi
Keywords: History of Religions; Orient and Occident: My Life in East and West; Annemarie Schimmel; Islam; Islamic Mysticism; Islamic Arts;

Summary/Abstract: Doğudan Batıya is a translation of the late orientalist professor Annemarie Schimmel’s autobiography named Orient and Occident: My Life in East and West. It contains seven chapters. Schimmel studied as a professor at various universities such as Marburg in Germany, Ankara in Turkey, and Harvard at USA. She travelled to Sweden, Holland, Switzerland, USA, Turkey, Kuwait, Bahrain, Syria, Jordan, Egypt, Sudan, Tunisia, Morocco, Yemen, Saudi Arabia, Iran, Afghanistan, Central Asia, Pakistan, India, Indonesia, and many more. He met many famous scholars and important people. She is well-known and highly appreciated authority on Islamic mysticism, poetry, arts. In her autobiography, Schimmel gives noteworthy information about her life, the countries and cities she visited, and people she met throughout her life.

  • Issue Year: 22/2018
  • Issue No: 1
  • Page Range: 733 - 742
  • Page Count: 10
  • Language: Turkish