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Aisha Mumad talks here about Annemarie Schimmel and how she has devoted her life to promoting mutual understanding between East and West and encouraging dialogue between civilizations to spread peace, and she never tires of her quest to reconcile these two great cultural spaces that never cease from confrontation and controversy, the writer talks to the lady about her visions and says, the great Lady Annemarie Schimmel, I have always wished to meet you, and today we are chatting and enjoying the words of our beloved Maulana Jalaloddin Rumi. But, how can I talk about you? The pen is ashamed of do¬ing this, and I hope that love will take it as an excuse and a refuge, and Mrs. Annemarie Schimmel also says that she has been in the service of Mau- lana's heritage since her youth, after she got acquainted with the Sheikh through Ruckert's poetic translations, Al-Masnavi was yes the companion and comrade in the American prison after she was expelled from Berlin in 1945. With the passage of days and years, scientist Schimmel became one of the most important specialists in the Mewalistic inheritance, Perhaps her book The (Triumphal Sun, a Study of the Works of Jalaloddin Rumi-1978) a good evidence of this, The writer, ac¬companied by Mrs. Annemarie Schim¬mel, wandered around Konya for a while, to witness closely the beauty of architecture and the distinctive deco-rations of the Seljuk art, and wandered leisurely through the alleys, markets, and all the places that bear the scent of the presence of Maulana in Konya, adding some poems by Annemarie, which speak of Jalaloddin Rumi.
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