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

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

Other Fellows of the British Academy

Professor Samuel Lieu FBA

History of religions, especially of Manichaeism and Christianity, in Central Asia and China; history of Late Roman and Early Byzantine Near East; history of the Silk Road

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Professor Timothy Brook FBA

China’s social, cultural, and international history from the 13th to the 17th century; global history of the 16th and 17th centuries; Asian conflict and human rights in the 20th century

Timothy Brook FBA

Professor Almut Hintze FBA

The languages, religions and history of pre-Islamic Iran and Central Asia with special attention to Zoroastrianism; Ancient and Middle Iranian philology and linguistics

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