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
Born	26 December, 1930
Nationality	Germani
Occupation	Professor of Arabic and Islamic studies at the
Academic work
Institutions	University of Oxford

Educations

• PhD in Islamic Studies, University of Hamburg, 1957
• B.A. in Islamic History and Literature, University of Cairo, 1953

Activities

• 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

Books

• 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)

• Imamism and Mu'tazilite theology

Source

• Shia Hadith website