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Professor Wilferd Madelung FBA

Early and medieval History of the Islamic world

Elected 1999

Fellow type
UK Emeritus Fellow
Year of birth
1930
Year of death
2023
Year elected
1999
Sections
Africa, Asia and the Middle East

Last post

Formerly Laudian Professor of Arabic, University of Oxford

Past appointments

University of Oxford Laudian Professor of Arabic

1978 - 1998

University of Oxford formerly Laudian Professor of Arabic, University of Oxford

1978 -

University of Oxford formerly Laudian Professor of Arabic, University of Oxford

1978 -

The University of Chicago Professor of Islamic History

1964 - 1978

Publications

Der Imam al-Qasim ibn Ibrahim und die Glaubenslehre der Zaiditen 1965

Religious trends in early Islamic Iran 1988

The succession to Muhammad: a study of the early Caliphate 1997

Studies in medieval Shi'ism 2012

Studies in medieval Muslim thought and history 2013

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Dr Sebastian Brock FBA

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