Professor Annemarie Schimmel, the leading German Islamologist, suggested that "it (the 'nuqta') might be an allusion to a representation of the 'Primordial Dot,' the first thing that according to some mystics' thought, appeared on the empty tablet of creation ... out of this dot the line developed, and out of the line all the rest". For Gulgee, his fascination with the intense stillness of the nuqta peaked in the later stage of his life, and has been associated by Schimmel and others with a "strong mystical feeling".