Heinz Halm, author (University of Tübingen) is one
of the world’s leading scholars on the Middle East and especially
on Shiism. His books, which have been translated into numerous
languages, include: The Shiites: A Short History (also available
from Markus Wiener) and The Empire of the Mahdi: The Rise of the
Fatimids. Professor Halm is the editor of Die Welt des Orients, and
his shorter studies have appeared in the Encyclopaedia of Islam,
Encyclopaedia Iranica, and numerous learned journals.
Suraiya Faroqhi, author is Professor of Ottoman
Studies at Ludwig Maximilian University Munich, and Bigi University
in Istanbul. She has also been a visiting scholar at Harvard
University, the University of Minnesota and Dartmouth College. She
is author of numerous books, many of which have been translated
into several languages including The Ottoman Empire and the Outside
World, 1540-to 1774.
Monika Gronke is a professor at the University of
Cologne.
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