Schimmel: 31 books
by Annemarie Schimmel
Language: English
Release Date: April 7, 1994
Language: English
Release Date: April 7, 1994
Why is the number seven lucky--even holy--in almost every culture? Why do we speak of the four corners of the earth? Why do cats have nine lives (except in Iran, where they have seven)? From literature to folklore to private superstitions, numbers play a conspicuous role in our daily lives. But in...
Wounds Not Healed by Time
The Power of Repentance and Forgiveness
Language: English
Release Date: September 22, 2002
How should we respond to injuries done to us and to the hurts that we inflict on others? In this thoughtful book, Wounds Not Healed By Time, Solomon Schimmel guides us through the meanings of justice, forgiveness, repentance, and reconciliation. In doing so, he probes to the core of the human encounter...
And Muhammad Is His Messenger
The Veneration of the Prophet in Islamic Piety
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2014
The important role of the Prophet Muhammad in the everyday lives of Muslims is usually overlooked by Western scholars and has consequently never been understood by the Western world. Using original sources in the various Islamic languages, Annemarie Schimmel explains the central place of Muhammad...
The Tenacity of Unreasonable Beliefs
Fundamentalism and the Fear of Truth
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2008
The Tenacity of Unreasonable Beliefs is a passionate yet analytical critique of Jewish, Christian, and Muslim scriptural fundamentalists. Schimmel examines the ways in which otherwise intelligent and bright Jews, Christians, and Muslims defend their belief in the divine authorship of the Bible or...
A Two-Colored Brocade
The Imagery of Persian Poetry
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2014
Annemarie Schimmel, one of the world's foremost authorities on Persian literature, provides a comprehensive introduction to the complicated and highly sophisticated system of rhetoric and imagery used by the poets of Iran, Ottoman Turkey, and Muslim India. She shows that these images have been used...
by Annemarie Schimmel
Language: English
Release Date: August 8, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: August 8, 2011
Thirty-five years after its original publication, Mystical Dimensions of Islam still stands as the most valuable introduction to Sufism, the main form of Islamic mysticism. This edition brings to a new generation of readers Annemarie Schimmel's historical treatment of the transnational phenomenon...
Cancer on Five Dollars a Day (chemo not included)
How Humor Got Me Through the Toughest Journey of My Life
Language: English
Release Date: January 28, 2008
In the spring of 2000, stand-up comedian Robert Schimmel was diagnosed with stage III non-Hodgkin's lymphoma, and soon the fire of his white-hot career started to fizzle.
But Schimmel never lost his sense of humor, his searing honesty, and most of all, his passion to make people laugh. Indeed,...
by Kimberly Schimmel
Language: English
Release Date: December 21, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: December 21, 2013
Welcome to Book 2 of the FiberFrau Series of patterns. Once again FiberFrau presents scarf designs for hand knitting.
Two of the three scarves are inspired by the novel, Divergent, by Veronica Roth. A third was inspired by The Hunger Games series by Suzanne Collins. I rarely knit the same thing...
by Kimberly Schimmel
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2014
The biggest and best knitting pattern collection yet from FiberFrau includes scarves, a sparkling cowl collar, and fingerless mittens. Color work and pattern stitches will offer interesting projects for advanced beginners and intermediate knitters, while most projects are simple enough for a confident...
by Kimberly Schimmel
Language: English
Release Date: February 4, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: February 4, 2014
A writer and mother thinks about liberty, responsibility, God, and country. She struggles with the realities of being a Christian in a country founded on freedom of conscience, yet drifting toward collectivism and tyranny. She offers ideas for strengthening the family, protecting individual liberty,...
Cancer Talk
Voices of Hope and Endurance from The Group Room, the World's Largest Cancer Sup port Group
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2010
For the first time, Cancer Talk provides a support group in a book.
Research shows that cancer patients who attend support groups can survive longer and lead fuller lives than patients receiving medical treatment alone. Cancer Talk, based on "The Group Room®," the nation's only talk-radio...
Rumi's World
The Life and Works of the Greatest Sufi Poet
Language: English
Release Date: May 22, 2001
This book (previously published as I Am Wind, You Are Fire) celebrates the extraordinary career of Persia's great mystical poet, Rumi (1207–1273), through the story of his life, along with an enlightening examination of his ecstatic verse. Rumi lived the quiet life of a religious teacher in Anatolia...
Sigmund Freud's Discovery of Psychoanalysis
Conquistador and thinker
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2013
Sigmund Freud’s discovery of psychoanalysis explores links between Freud’s development of his thinking and theory and his personal emotional journey. It follows his early career as a medical student, researcher and neurologist, and then as a psychotherapist, to focus on the critical period 1895-1900....
by Kimberly Schimmel
Language: English
Release Date: February 14, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: February 14, 2014
This decorative crocheted scarf is inspired by the dragon in The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkein. Smaug sits on the treasures of gold and jewels that belong to the dwarves led by Thorin, son of Thrain, son of Thror. This crocheted design is made of a gold-colored yarn with gold-tone metal rings added.