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

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Oral history and copyright in a dominant context of orality in Sub-Saharan Africa; Sahelians’ migration to South-East Asia; development anthropology

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Professor Sujit Pradin Sivasundaram FBA

World history, especially since 1750: sciences and environments; race and racisms; the Indian and Pacific Oceans; Sri Lanka and South and Southeast Asia; material cultures; cities; human-animal relations; empires

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Professor Anne Gerritsen FBA

Late imperial China, the early modern history of exchange between Asia and Europe, and especially the material culture of global exchange, therapeutic commodities, and the cultures and practices of merchants

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