Ludwig W. Adamec

Ludwig W. Adamec (10 March 1924 – 1 January 2019) was an Austrian scholar on the

Biography

Born in Vienna in 1924, his father died when Adamec was 5 years old. His mother died when he was 16 years old (in 1940). He did not like the Nazi ideology and described himself as a "

In 1950, he left Austria and after travels across Europe, Asia and Africa. He moved to the US in 1954, where he obtained a doctorate in Middle Eastern studies.^{[citation needed]}

In 1967, he came to the University of Arizona as a scholar in Middle Eastern studies. He taught the history of Middle East and Sub-Saharan Africa from about 500 A.D. to present days, and also for some time taught Arabic and Persian languages at the University. In 1975, he established a Near Eastern Center at the University and headed the Center for the subsequent 10 years.

In 1986–87 he headed the Afghanistan Branch at Voice of America.^[3]

On 1 January 2019, Adamec died in Tucson, Arizona, at the age of 95.^[4]

List of publications

• Ludwig W. Adamec: The A to Z of Islam, 2nd Ed (2009),
  ISBN 978-81-709454-1-3
• Ludwig W. Adamec: Afghanistan, 1900–1923: A Diplomatic History, Berkeley: University of California Press, 1967.
• Ludwig W. Admec: Afghanistan's Foreign Affairs to the Mid-Twentieth Century: Relations with the USSR, Germany, and Britain, Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 1974.
• Ludwig W. Adamec and Frank A. Clements: Conflict in Afghanistan: An Encyclopedia, Santa Barbara: ABC-CLIO, 2003.
• Ludwig W. Adamec: Historical and political gazetteer of Afghanistan, 6 vols. Graz: Akad. Druck- und Verl.-Anst., 1972–1985.
• Ludwig W. Adamec: Historical dictionary of Afghan wars, revolutions, and insurgencies, Lanham: Rowman & Littlefield, 2nd. ed. 2005.
• Ludwig W. Adamec: Historical Dictionary of Afghanistan,
  The Scarecrow Press, Inc.
  3rd ed. 2003.
• Ludwig W. Adamec: Historical Dictionary of Islam, Scarecrow Press, 2nd ed. 2009.

Articles

• Anglo-Afghan Treaty of 1921 -
  Encyclopedia Iranica
  , Vol. II, Fasc. 1, pp. 36–37, originally published in 1985, updated in 2011
• Egypt: Relations with Afghanistan -
  Encyclopedia Iranica
  , Vol. VIII, Fasc. 3, pp. 266–267, originally published in 1998, updated in 2011
• Third Anglo-Afghan War -
  Encyclopedia Iranica
  , Vol. II, Fasc. 1, pp. 37–41, originally published in 1985, updated in 2011

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