Wilferd Madelung

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

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.

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