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.

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: A Short History (2006)
• The Shi'ites: A Short History (Princeton Series on the Middle East), (2007)
• Shi'ism (2004)
• The Fatimids and Their Traditions of Learning (2001)
• Shi'a Islam: From Religion to Revolution (Princeton Series on the Middle East), (1996)