"Mystical Dimensions of Islam, from its first appearance in 1975, has become the standard English-language handbook on the subject of Sufi sm. No scholar in the last half of the twentieth century had a greater impact on the study of Islamic mysticism than Annemarie Schimmel." - Carl W. Ernst, from the foreword   "A truly beautiful book. . . . Radiates an elegance of style. . . . Replete not only with the poetic insight of the author but with her unquestioned scholarly ...