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'''Heinz Halm''' is a German scholar of Islamic Studies, with a particular expertise on early Shia history, the Ismailites and other Shia sects. | '''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. | ||
[[File:Heinz_halm_portr.jpg|thumbnail|Heinz Halm]] | [[File:Heinz_halm_portr.jpg|thumbnail|Heinz Halm]] | ||
==Biography== | ==Biography== | ||
Heinz Halm | 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== | ==Books== | ||