@inbook{10.5149/9780807869338_schimmel.3,
 ISBN = {9780807899762},
 URL = {http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.5149/9780807869338_schimmel.3},
 abstract = {Mystical Dimensions of Islam, from its first appearance in 1975, has become the standard English-language handbook on the subject of Sufism or Islamic mysticism. Readers have appreciated the way the book combines careful and wide-ranging scholarship with a direct and approachable style, making it an excellent introduction to the topic. In the original foreword, Annemarie Schimmel described the dauntingly difficult character of Islamic mysticism as a subject of academic research. At the same time, she acknowledged that it was the repeated demands of her students at Harvard that caused her to put her lectures into book form. What is it},
 author = {Carl W. Ernst and Carl W. Ernst},
 booktitle = {Mystical Dimensions of Islam},
 pages = {xv--xx},
 publisher = {University of North Carolina Press},
 title = {FOREWORD to the 35th Anniversary Edition},
 year = {2011}
}