Professor Wilferd Madelung FBA

Early and medieval History of the Islamic world
Fellow type
UK Emeritus Fellow
Year elected
1999
Year of birth
1930
Year of death
2023

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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

Other Fellows of the British Academy

Professor Roel Sterckx FBA

Classical and literary Chinese language and philology; history, religion and thought of pre-imperial and early imperial China; text and manuscript studies (Warring States, Qin, and Han periods); the natural world in pre-modern China

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Professor Charles Tripp FBA

Politics in the Middle East, particularly in Iraq & Egypt; Islamic political thought; the relationship between art & power in the Middle East.

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Professor Eleanor Robson FBA

History of literacy, numeracy and knowledge in ancient Middle Eastern cuneiform cultures; history and politics of archaeology and heritage in modern Iraq; open-access digital humanities approaches to cuneiform

Eleanor Robson FBA

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