Wilferd Madelung

Wilferd Ferdinand Madelung (born 26 December 1930) is a scholar of Islam . He was born in Stuttgart , Germany , where he completed his early education at Eberhard-Ludwig- Gymnasium . His family moved to the United States after in 1947. Madelung went to Egypt in 1952 and stayed there for a year. During his stay in Egypt the Coup d'État of 1952 by the Free Officers occurred. He also met Ihsan Abbas, the famous scholar of Islamic History, there. After his stay in Egypt he went back to Germany and completed his Ph.D in 1957. He worked with Spuler. In 1958 he was sent to Iraq by the German government to work at the embassy. Shortly after his arrival to Baghdad, Brigadier Abd al-Karim Qasim overthrew the regime in a bloody military coup. Madelung stayed in Iraq two more years. Madelung then taught at the University of Chicago. He has written extensively on the early history of Islam , as well as on Islamic sects such as the Shi'a and the Ismailis . He has served on the editorial boards of several academic journals including the Journal of Arabic and Islamic Studies .

( Learn how and when to remove this message ) Wilferd Madelung Wilferd Ferdinand Madelung (b. 1930 ) is a German-American author and scholar of Islamic history. He has written extensively on the early history of Islam, as well as on Islamic sects such as the Shi'a and the Ismailis . He has also written academic journal articles and lectures about Ibadism . He has served on the editorial boards of several academic journals including the Journal of Arabic and Islamic Studies . Vol. 3 (Second revised and enlarged ed.).

German-American scholar of Islamic history (1930–2023) Wilferd Ferdinand Madelung FBA (26 December 1930 – 9 May 2023) was a German author and scholar of Islamic history widely recognised for his contributions to the fields of Islamic and Iranian studies . He was appreciated in Iran for his "knowledgeable and fair" treatment of the Shia perspective. In the obituary of the Institute of Ismaili Studies (London) where Madelung worked his last years, it reads: "With particular reference to religious schools and movements in early Islam, his studies, based on a vast array of primary sources, have enriched the discipline’s understanding of almost every major Muslim movement and community – not only early Imami Shi‘ism and the later developments of Twelver , Ismaili and Zaydi Islam but also the lesser known aspects of Sunni , Khariji and the Mu‘tazili schools of theology and philosophy." "Tehran meeting to commemorate Islamic scholar Wilferd Madelung" .