Wilferd Ferdinand Madelung FBA (26 December 1930 – 9 May 2023) was a German author and scholar of Islamic history widely recognised for his contributions...

physicist Georg Hans Madelung (1889–1972), German aeronautical engineer Otto Wilhelm Madelung (1846–1926), German surgeon Wilferd Madelung (1930–2023), German-American...

Succession to Muhammad is a book by Wilferd Madelung published by the Cambridge University Press in 1997. Madelung investigates the events after the death...

has deviated from this common tradition is Wilferd Madelung. In the Encyclopaedia of Islam, Wilferd Madelung considers the main Shiite claims to be Ali...

Brill's Encyclopaedia Islamica, which is edited by Farhad Daftary and Wilferd Madelung, is currently at its fifth volume. It was begun in 2008 and is expected...

Western historians, Giorgio Levi della Vida (d. 1967) is unsure, while Wilferd Madelung strongly rejects the accusation, saying that it "stretches the imagination"...

described him as semi-legendary or legendary (Taha Hussein, Bernard Lewis, Wilferd Madelung, Leone Caetani, and Shia historians). Others such as Israel Friedlander...

that Mu'awiya had the right to seek revenge. According to scholar Wilferd Madelung, this verdict was political rather than judicial, and a blunder of...

|title= (help) Tabatabae (1979), pp.190–192 Tabatabae (1979), p.192 Madelung, Wilferd. "ḤASAN B. ʿALI B. ABI ṬĀLEB". Encyclopaedia Iranica. Archived from...

Umar, but Abu Lu'lu'a's true motivations are not clear. According to Wilferd Madelung in his The Succession to Muhammad, Umar's biased policies against non-Arabs...

Emma née Messerschmitt was Wilferd Madelung, a noted scholar in Islamic studies. Madelung's father was Otto Wilhelm Madelung, a surgeon and medical researcher...

successor as Imam, and that Hasan and Husayn were usurpers. According to Wilferd Madelung, this claim is likely to be a later fabrication. Anthony, Sean W. (2012)...

Goldziher (d. 1921) and his coauthors, and mentioned by Sharon, while Wilferd Madelung (d. 2023) also includes the Banu Hashim in the Ahl al-Bayt in view...

son-in-law and early supporter of Muhammad. According to the historian Wilferd Madelung, Abu Sufyan, by dint of his chieftainship of the Banu Abd Shams and...

Everett Rowson. Arya, Gholam-Ali; Negahban, Farzin. "Chishtiyya". In Madelung, Wilferd; Daftary, Farhad (eds.). Encyclopaedia Islamica. Arya, Gholam-Ali...

Caetani (d. 1935). Giorgio Levi della Vida (d. 1967) is unsure, while Wilferd Madelung strongly rejects the accusation, saying that it "stretches the imagination"...

Madelung, Wilferd (1985a). "'Alī Al-Hādī". Encyclopædia Iranica. Madelung, Wilferd (1985b). "ʿAlī Al-Reżā". Encyclopædia Iranica. Madelung, Wilferd (1985c)...

al-Malik ibn al-Muhallab, head of the Azd tribe to which Jābir belonged. Wilferd Madelung, "ʿAbd Allāh ibn Ibāḍ and the Origins of the Ibāḍiyya", in Barbara...

Introduction to Shi'i Islam. Yale University Press. ISBN 9780853982005. Madelung, Wilferd (1997). The Succession to Muhammad: A Study of the Early Caliphate...

for the state, culminating in Uthman's assassination. According to Wilferd Madelung, during Uthman's reign, "grievances against his arbitrary acts were...

represented a blow to Mu'awiya's prestige, according to the historian Wilferd Madelung. Up to four men from the Rabi'a had claimed to have slain Ubayd Allah...

fell back in a hand-to-hand fight with Ali's soldiers. The historian Wilferd Madelung notes that Marwan "evidently" waited to kill Talha when A'isha appeared...

important and ordered his troops to depart for Syria. According to Wilferd Madelung, around this time, the Kharijites started the practice of interrogating...

2008-03-23. Madelung, Wilferd. "'ALĪ B. AL-ḤOSAYN". Encyclopaedia Iranica. Retrieved 2007-11-08. Tabatabae (1979), p.202 Madelung, Wilferd. "AL-BAQER,...

succession of modern scholars—chiefly Vladimir Ivanov, Samuel Miklos Stern, Wilferd Madelung, and Heinz Halm—using mostly anti-Fatimid polemic works. According...

spurious material. The work of William Montgomery Watt and that of Wilferd Madelung are two source critical examples. On the tradition critical method...

battle of the Camel.[unreliable source?] Muhammad (name) Talha (name) Madelung, Wilferd (1997). The Succession to Muhammad: A Study of the Early Caliphate...

Institute for Shia Ismaili Studies and London's Shi'aism researcher Wilferd Madelung believe that Malik was poisoned by Muawiyah I. Ibn Abi Bakr was eventually...

“Abū al-Ḥasan al-Ahwāzī”, Encyclopaedia Islamica, Editors-in-Chief: Wilferd Madelung and, Farhad Daftary. Consulted online on 04 February 2017 [4] Walker...

by Muslim's sons. This is to be discounted, suggests the Islamicist Wilferd Madelung. It is more likely that Husayn pressed on towards Kufa even after learning...