Heinz Halm
Heinz Halm (born 21 February 1942 in
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 Tübinger Atlas des Vorderen Orients (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
- Halm, Heinz; ISBN 9781558765702.
- Die Araber: Von der vorislamischen Zeit bis zur Gegenwart (in German) (4th ed.). ISBN 978-3-406-68284-1.
- The Arabs: A Short History (with documents). Markus Wiener Publishers. 2012. ISBN 9781558765450.
- The Arabs: A Short History (with documents). Markus Wiener Publishers. 2012.
- 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.
- The Shiites: A Short History. Princeton, NJ: Markus Wiener Publishers. 2007.
- 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.
- Das Reich des Mahdi: Der Aufstieg der Fatimiden (875—973) (in German). Munchen: C.H.Beck. 1991. ISBN 978-3-406-35497-7.
- The Empire of the Mahdi The Rise of the Fatimids. Translated by ISBN 978-90-04-10056-5.
- The Empire of the Mahdi The Rise of the Fatimids. Translated by
- Der Schiitische Islam: Von Der Religion Zur Revolution [Shi’a Islam: From Religion to Revolution] (in German). C.H. Beck. 1994. ISBN 978-3-406-37437-1.
- Shi'a Islam: From Religion to Revolution. Princeton Series on the Middle East. Princeton, NJ: Markus Wiener Publishers. 1997 [1994]. ISBN 978-1558761346.
- Shi'a Islam: From Religion to Revolution. Princeton Series on the Middle East. Princeton, NJ: Markus Wiener Publishers. 1997 [1994].
Further reading
- Hinrich Biesterfeldt; Verena Klemm, eds. (2012). Difference and Dynamism in Islam: ISBN 978-3899138856.
References
- JSTOR 176298.
External links
- Institute page of Heinz Halm at Tübingen University at the Wayback Machine (archived July 9, 2012) (in German)
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