Thomas Philipp (11 May 1941 in Königsberg; † 11 June 2015 in Erlangen) was a German historian that focused on the research of medieval and modern history and political history of Near and Middle East, Ottoman Empire and the Arab world.
He is considered a prominent historian in his respective field of historiography in German language.
He received his doctorate from the University of California, Los Angeles in 1971 with a thesis on Arab nationalism.
[2] In 1988, Philipp was appointed professor of politics and contemporary history of the Near and Middle East at the Institute for Political Science at the Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen-Nuremberg.
[3] Philipp died at the age of 74 in 2015 after a long illness.