Heinz Halm

Heinz Halm (born 1942 in Andernach, Rhine Province) is a German scholar of Islamic Studies, with a particular expertise on early Shia history, the Ismailites and other Shia sects.

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Heinz Halm

Biography

Heinz Halm studied Islamic and Semitic studies, and medieval and modern history at the University of Bonn, where he was a scholar of Annemarie Schimmel. Following his Ph.D. and a traineeship in journalism at Hessischer Rundfunk, he joined the scholarly project of the Tübinger Atlas des Vorderen Orients (de) (Tuebingen Atlas of the Near & Middle East), a bilingual (German/English) collection of geographical and historical maps. In 1980, he was appointed Professor for Islamic Studies at the University of Tübingen.

Books

  • The Arabs[1]
  • The Shi'ites[2]
  • Shi'ism[3]
  • The Fatimids and Their Traditions of Learning[4]
  • Shi'a Islam[5]

References