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...

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...

rulership in Islam. Concerning the events which led to siege of Uthman, Wilferd Madelung writes: 'Uthman ibn 'Affan expressed generosity toward his kin, Banu...

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

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

of the Azd tribe to which Jābir belonged. List of Islamic scholars Wilferd Madelung, "ʿAbd Allāh ibn Ibāḍ and the Origins of the Ibāḍiyya", in Barbara...

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

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...

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...

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

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...

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)...

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...

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

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

result of the latter's excessive insult. According to the historian Wilferd Madelung, the insult Uthman cited was likely Amr's public reaction to the Caliph's...

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...

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

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

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...

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

al-Zubayr's death. Wilferd Madelung narrowed this down to 684, just after the death of Yazid. Michael Cook and David Cook have contested Madelung's dating. It...

khatam an-nabiyyin in its original Qur'anic context is still in doubt. Wilferd Madelung takes Friedmann's findings into consideration in observing that the...

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

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

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