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As Through a Veil

Mystical Poetry in Islam

As Through a Veil( )
Author: Schimmel, Annemarie
Series title:American Lectures on the History of Religions Ser.
ISBN:978-0-231-05246-7
Publication Date:May 1982
Publisher:Columbia University Press
Book Format:Hardback
List Price:AUD $190.95
Book Description:

Incorporating her personal experience with yoga into her provocative philosophical thinking on sexual difference, Irigaray proposes a new way of understanding individuation and community in the contemporary world, and an ethic of sexual difference predicated on a respect for life, nature, and the feminine.

Book Details
Pages:359
Detailed Subjects: Literary Criticism / Poetry
Literary Criticism / Middle Eastern
Physical Dimensions (W X L X H):1.5 x 2.5 x 0.15 cm
Book Weight:0.61 Kilograms
Author Biography
Schimmel, Annemarie (Author)
Annemarie Schimmel was born in Erfurt, Germany on April 7, 1922 and attended the University of Berlin and the University of Marburg.

Schimmel has taught at the University of Ankara in Turkey, Harvard University, and Bonn University.

Along with writing more than eighty books and essays, Schimmel has translated literature from the Arabic, Persian, Turkish and Sindhi languages into German and English. She was honored on her 75th birthday by having the Annemarie Schimmel Chair for Indo-Muslim Culture established at Bonn University.

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