Wilferd Madelung
Wilferd Madelung | |
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Born | Stuttgart, Germany | 26 December 1930
Died | 9 May 2023 | (aged 92)
Nationality | German-American |
Alma mater | Georgetown University, University of Hamburg |
Occupation(s) | Author, scholar |
Wilferd Ferdinand Madelung
Early life and career
Madelung was born in Stuttgart on 26 December 1930.[4][5] After World War II (in 1947[6]), as an adolescent, he accompanied his parents Georg Hans Madelung and Elisabeth Emma Madelung to the US where his father continued his career as an aeronautic engineer specialising in rockets.[7] Wilferd Madelung enrolled at Georgetown University in Washington DC before going to Cairo in 1951 to study Arabic literature and Islamic history;[8] there he was a student of "Muḥammad Kamil Ḥusayn (1901–1961), who edited numerous Ismaili texts of the Fatimid period".[9] From 1958 to 1960, he served as cultural attaché at the West German Embassy in Baghdad, before starting his scientific career.[8] Later, Madelung was apparently also holding British citizenship.[10] He was married with Margaret Madelung.[11]
Academic career
Madelung received his
During this time, his 1997 book
In 2013, he was awarded the
Works
Already 20 years before passing away he had produced some 15 books and edited volumes, 60 book chapters and papers in scientific journals, 130 encyclopaedia entries and about 160 book reviews.[20]
- Madelung, W. (editor) - Arabic Texts Concerning The History of The Zaydī Imāms of Tabaristān, Daylamān And Gīlān, collected and edited by Wilferd Madelung. Franz Steiner Verlag, Beirut and Wiesbaden, 1987.[21]
- Madelung, W. - Religious Trends in Early Islamic Iran. Columbia Letters of Iranian Studies no. 4, The Persian Heritage Foundation, 1988. ISBN 0-88706-700-X / 0-88706-701-8 (pbk.).
- Madelung, W. - Religious and Ethnic Movements in Medieval Islam, Ashgate Publishing, 1992. (New editions from 2016 on by Routledge, Oxon and New York, ISBN 978-086078-310-7
- Madelung, W. - The Succession to Muhammad, Cambridge University Press, 1997, ISBN 0521646960.
- Madelung, W. and Walker, P. - An Ismaili Heresiography: The 'Bāb al-Shayṭān' from Abū Tammāms' Kitāb al-shajara, Leiden, 1998.[22]
- Madelung, W. and Walker, P. - The Advent of the Fatimids: A Contemporary Shi'i Witness. An Edition and English Translation of Ibn al-Haytham’s Kitab al-Munazarat, by Wilferd Madelung and Paul E. Walker. I.B. Tauris, London, 2000, ISBN 1-86064-551-8. (Published online by Cambridge University Press in 2016.)
- Madelung, W. - Der Imam al-Qasim ibn Ibrahim und die Glaubenslehre der Zaiditen, Walter De Gruyter Incorporated, 2002 (first edition 1966), ISBN 9783110826548.
- Aḥmad b. Yaḥyā al-Balāḏurī: Ansāb al-Ašrāf (Part 2). Edited by Wilferd Madelung. Beirut, 2003.
- Muhammad Ibn Umail: Book of the Explanation of the Symbols. Kitāb Ḥall ar-Rumūz (Corpus Alchemicum Arabicum. Vol. I). Edited by Theodor Abt, Wilferd Madelung, Thomas Hofmeier, with Introduction by Theodor Abt. Living Human Heritage Publications, Zurich, 2003; ISBN 3-9522608-1-9.
- Madelung, W. - Religious schools and sects in medieval Islam, Variorum Reprints, 1985.
- Madelung, W. (editor) - The Book of the Rank of the Sage. Rutbat al-Ḥakīm by Maslama al-Qurṭubī. Arabic Text edited with an English Introduction by Wilferd Madelung. Corpus Alchemicum Arabicum IV. Living Human Heritage Publications, Zurich 2016.[23]
- Ibāḍī Texts from the 2nd/8th Century
- Muhammad Ibn Umail: The Pure Pearl and other texts by Muhammad Ibn Umail. Ad-Durra an-naqīya, As-Sīra an-naqīya, Al-Qașīda al-Mīmīya, Al-Mabāqil as-sab'a (Corpus Alchemicum Arabicum. Vol. V). Arabic Edition by Wilferd Madelung with an Introduction by Theodor Abt. Translation by Salwa Fuad and Theodor Abt. Living Human Heritage Publications, Zurich, 2019; ISBN 978-3-9524468-3-6.
See also
- List of Islamic scholars
References
- ^ a b c "Tehran meeting to commemorate Islamic scholar Wilferd Madelung". Tehran Times.
- ^ https://www.iis.ac.uk/news/2023/may/in-memoriam-professor-wilferd-madelung-1930-2023/, retrieved on July 21, 2023
- ^ "ویلفرد مادلونگ دار فانی را وداع گفت". Vista.ir. Retrieved 10 May 2023.
- ^ "Madelung, Wilferd @ HPK".
- ISBN 978-90-04-46071-3.
- ^ http://hadith.net/en/post/49669/wilferd-madelung, retrieved on July 21, 2023
- ^ "Wilferd Madelung". Archived from the original on 25 July 2022. Retrieved 25 July 2022.
- ^ a b c "The Institute's Latest Publication Honours Wilferd Madelung's Contributions to Islamic Studies". Archived from the original on 25 July 2022. Retrieved 25 July 2022.
- ^ Farhad Daftary and Josef Meri (2003): Culture and Memory in Medieval Islam. Essays in Honour of Wilferd Madelung. London: Tauris. p. 5.
- ^ http://www.eslam.de/begriffe/m/madelung_wilferd.htm, retrieved on July 21, 2023
- ^ Farhad Daftary and Josef Meri (2003): Culture and Memory in Medieval Islam. Essays in Honour of Wilferd Madelung. London: Tauris. p. 3.
- ^ "Madelung, Wilferd" (in German). University of Hamburg. 12 July 2022.
- ^ "Quarmaten und Fatimiden. Ihre gegenseitigen Beziehungen und ihre Lehre vom Imamat." Doctoral certificate (dated 30th of August, 1957) with the signature: 364-13 Phil Fak Prom 1372 in the State Archives of the Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg.
- ^ "Professor Wilferd Madelung FBA". Archived from the original on 17 July 2022. Retrieved 17 July 2022.
- ^ "Wilferd Madelung". Archived from the original on 3 July 2022. Retrieved 17 July 2022.
- ISBN 9783487153544.
- ^ "Professor Wilferd Madelung FBA". Archived from the original on 15 January 2021. Retrieved 17 July 2022.
- ^ "Our people". Archived from the original on 17 July 2022. Retrieved 17 July 2022.
- ^ "IIS Senior Research Fellow Receives Farabi Award". 3 July 2013. Archived from the original on 10 February 2023. Retrieved 10 February 2023.
- ^ Farhad Daftary and Josef Meri (2003): Culture and Memory in Medieval Islam. Essays in Honour of Wilferd Madelung. London: Tauris. p. 6.
- doi:10.1093/jis/5.1.125. Archived from the original on 5 June 2018. Retrieved 10 May 2023 – via Oxford University Press.
- ISBN 978-90-04-45098-1.
- ISSN 2212-9421. Archived from the original on 22 September 2022. Retrieved 10 May 2023 – via Brill Publishers.
External links
- Institute for Ismaili Studies - Culture and Memory in Early and Medieval Islam: A Festschrift in honour of Wilferd Madelung, ed. F. Daftary and J. Meri. London: I.B. Taurus, 2003.