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==Books== | ==Books== | ||
* | *[https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1558764178/ref=dbs_a_def_rwt_bibl_vppi_i0 The Arabs: A Short History (2006)] | ||
* | *[https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1558764372/ref=dbs_a_def_rwt_bibl_vppi_i1 The Shi'ites: A Short History (Princeton Series on the Middle East), (2007)] | ||
* | *[https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0231135866/ref=dbs_a_def_rwt_bibl_vppi_i2 Shi'ism (2004)] | ||
* | *[https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1860643132/ref=dbs_a_def_rwt_bibl_vppi_i4 The Fatimids and Their Traditions of Learning (2001)] | ||
* | *[https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1558761357/ref=dbs_a_def_rwt_bibl_vppi_i3 Shi'a Islam: From Religion to Revolution (Princeton Series on the Middle East), (1996)] | ||
Revision as of 16:32, 26 October 2019
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.
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.