Wilferd Madelung
Wilferd Ferdinand Madelung (1930) is a German scholar of Shi’a who has written about 200 books and essays about Shi'a and has had an important role in introducing Shi'a to the West.
Wilferd Madelung | |
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| Born | 26 December, 1930 |
| Nationality | Germani |
| Occupation | Professor of Arabic and Islamic studies at the |
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| Institutions | University of Oxford |
EducationsEdit
- PhD in Islamic Studies, University of Hamburg, 1957
- B.A. in Islamic History and Literature, University of Cairo, 1953
ActivitiesEdit
- Professor of Laudian in Arabic and Islamic studies at the University of Oxford, 1978 – 1998
- Professor of Islamic Studies in University of Chicago, 1969 – 1978
- Assistant professor and associate professor in Islamic Studies in University of Chicago, 1964 – 1969
- Assistant professor in Islamic Studies in University of Texas in Austin, 1963
BooksEdit
- Arabic Texts Concerning The History of The Zaydi Imams of Tabaristan, Daylaman And Gilan, Franz Steiner, 1987 Religious Trends in Early Islamic Iran, 1988
- Religious and Ethnic Movements in Medieval Islam, 1992
- The Succession to Muhammad, Cambridge University Press, 1997
- Der Imam al-Qasim ibn Ibrahim und die Glaubenslehre der Zaiditen, Walter De Gruyter Incorporated, 2002
- Religious school and sects in medieval Islam (Columbia lectures on Iranian studies)