Annemarie Schimmel is a renowned Orientalist. The mystic tradition of Islam was her favorite area of interest. She loved mystic poetry very much. Besides Persian, she also took keen interest in Urdu poetry. She devoted herself for special study of Mirza Ghalib’s art and thought. She presented her finding in her famous book A Dance of Sparks-Imagery of Fire in Ghalib’s Poetry. She established in this book that the dance has special reference in different cultures. She also compared her loving Sufi personality of Mansoor Hallaj with Ghalib and gave an aesthetic touch to the motif of fire in dancing.