Heinz Halm
Heinz Halm (born 21 February 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.
Life[]
Born and raised in Andernach, 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 (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.
Work[]
Halm's book The Shiites was reviewed in the International Journal of Middle East Studies by Said Amir Arjomand who remarked that "Halm’s historical perspective is a welcome corrective to the ahistorical shallowness of the vast majority of the accounts of the Islamic Revolution." Arjomand recommends the book as "a short historical introduction to Shi`ism, it is serviceable to the general public and has no rival or substitute.”[1]
- Halm; Faroqhi; Gronke, eds. (2012). "The Arabs". History of the Middle East. Markus Wiener Publishers. ISBN 9781558765702.
- Die Araber: Von der vorislamischen Zeit bis zur Gegenwart (in German) (4th ed.). C.H. Beck. 2015. ISBN 978-3-406-68284-1.
- The Arabs: A Short History (with documents). Markus Wiener Publishers. 2012. ISBN 9781558765450.
- Die Schiiten (in German) (2nd ed.). C.H. Beck. 2015. ISBN 978-3-406-67716-8.
- The Shiites: A Short History. Princeton, NJ: Markus Wiener Publishers. 2007. ISBN 9781558764378.
- Der Islam: Geschichte und Gegenwart (in German) (10th ed.). C.H. Beck. 2015. ISBN 978-3-406-62886-3.
- Kalifen und Assassinen. Ägypten und der Vordere Orient zur Zeit der ersten Kreuzzüge 1074-1171 (in German). C.H. Beck. 2014. ISBN 978-3-406-66163-1.
Further reading[]
- Hinrich Biesterfeldt; Verena Klemm, eds. (2012). Difference and Dynamism in Islam: Festschrift for Heinz Halm on his 70th Birthday. Ergon. ISBN 978-3899138856.
References[]
External links[]
- Institute page of Heinz Halm at Tübingen University at the Wayback Machine (archived July 9, 2012) (in German)
- 1942 births
- Living people
- People from Andernach
- People from the Rhine Province
- German Islamic studies scholars
- Scholars of Shia Islam
- University of Bonn alumni
- University of Tübingen faculty