Heinz Halm
{{Short description|German scholar of Islamic Studies (born 1942)}}
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 {{Interlanguage link multi|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.
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.”{{cite journal |title=Review of "Shia Islam: From Religion to Revolution" |author=Said Amir Arjomand |journal=International Journal of Middle East Studies |volume=31 |number=2 |date=May 1999 |pages=276–278 |jstor=176298}}
- {{cite book |chapter=The Arabs |editor-last=Halm |editor-first=Heinz |editor-last2=Faroqhi |editor-first2=Suraiya |editor-link2=Suraiya Faroqhi |editor-last3=Gronke |editor-first3=Monika |title=History of the Middle East: A Compilation |location=Princeton, NJ |publisher=Markus Wiener Publishers |year=2012 |series=Princeton Series on the Middle East |isbn=9781558765702}}
- {{cite book |title=Die Araber: Von der vorislamischen Zeit bis zur Gegenwart |publisher=C.H. Beck |edition=4th |year=2015 |isbn=978-3-406-68284-1 |url={{Google books|iQp5CgAAQBAJ|plainurl=y}} |language=de}}
:* {{cite book |title=The Arabs: A Short History (with documents) |publisher=Markus Wiener Publishers |year=2012 |isbn=9781558765450}}
- {{cite book |title=Die Schiiten |publisher=C.H. Beck |edition=2nd |year=2015 |isbn=978-3-406-67716-8 |url={{Google books|oVWcBgAAQBAJ|plainurl=y}} |language=de}}
:* {{cite book |title=The Shiites: A Short History |publisher=Markus Wiener Publishers |location=Princeton, NJ |year=2007 |isbn=9781558764378}}
- {{cite book |title=Der Islam: Geschichte und Gegenwart |publisher=C.H. Beck |edition=10th |year=2015 |isbn=978-3-406-62886-3 |url={{Google books|yfevT2_Xbd0C|plainurl=y}} |language=de}}
- {{cite book |title=Kalifen und Assassinen. Ägypten und der Vordere Orient zur Zeit der ersten Kreuzzüge 1074-1171 |publisher=C.H. Beck |year=2014 |isbn=978-3-406-66163-1 |url={{Google books|AtfNAgAAQBAJ|plainurl=y}} |language=de}}
- {{Cite book|title=Das Reich des Mahdi: Der Aufstieg der Fatimiden (875—973)|publisher=C.H.Beck|year=1991|isbn=978-3-406-35497-7|location=Munchen|language=de}}
- {{Cite book|title=The Empire of the Mahdi The Rise of the Fatimids|publisher=E.J. Brill|year=1996|isbn=978-90-04-10056-5|location=Leiden and New York|language=en|translator-last=Bonner|translator-first=Michael|translator-link=Michael Bonner}}
- {{Cite book |title=Der Schiitische Islam: Von Der Religion Zur Revolution |publisher=C.H. Beck |year=1994 |isbn=978-3-406-37437-1 |language=de |trans-title=Shi’a Islam: From Religion to Revolution}}
:* {{Cite book |title=Shi'a Islam: From Religion to Revolution |publisher=Markus Wiener Publishers |year=1997 |isbn=978-1558761346 |location=Princeton, NJ |language=en |series=Princeton Series on the Middle East |orig-date=1994}}
Further reading
- {{cite book |editor1=Hinrich Biesterfeldt |editor2=Verena Klemm |title=Difference and Dynamism in Islam: Festschrift for Heinz Halm on his 70th Birthday |year=2012 |publisher=Ergon |isbn=978-3899138856}}
References
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External links
- {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120709092957/http://www.uni-tuebingen.de/orientsem/halm.htm |date=July 9, 2012 |title=Institute page of Heinz Halm at Tübingen University }} {{in lang|de}}
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Category:People from Andernach
Category:People from the Rhine Province
Category:German Islamic studies scholars
Category:Scholars of Shia Islam