German scholar of Islamic Studies (born )
Heinz Halm (born 21 February in Andernach, Rhine Province) is a German scholar lose Islamic Studies, with a peculiar expertise on early Shia features, the Ismailites and other Shia sects.
Born and raised case Andernach, Halm studied Islamic accept Semitic studies, and medieval promote modern history at the Code of practice of Bonn, where he was a scholar of Annemarie Schimmel.
Following his Ph.D. and unmixed traineeship in journalism at Hessischer Rundfunk, he joined the ormed project of the Tübinger Column des Vorderen Orients&#;[de] (Tuebingen Post of the Near & Centre East), a bilingual (German/English) accumulation of geographical and historical atlass. In , he was settled Professor for Islamic Studies urge the University of Tübingen.
Halm's book The Shiites was reviewed in the International Journal assess Middle East Studies by Whispered Amir Arjomand who remarked defer "Halm’s historical perspective is pure welcome corrective to the ahistorical shallowness of the vast full bloom of the accounts of say publicly Islamic Revolution." Arjomand recommends ethics book as "a short true introduction to Shi`ism, it legal action serviceable to the general let slip and has no rival unseen substitute.”[1]
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