Wilferd Madelung

Wilferd Ferdinand Madelung (laia 26 Desember 1930) adolah surang islamolog. Baliau laia di Stuttgart, Jerman, dan manyalasaian pandidiakan manangahnyo di Eberhard-Ludwigs-Gymnasium.

Kaluarganyo pindah ka Amerika Sarikat pado 1947. Baliau lanjuik baraja di Universitas Georgetown. Pado 1952, baliau pai ka Masia dan tingga di sinan salamo sataun. Katiko baliau tingga di siko, tajadi Revolusi Maisa 1952, nan diluncuaan dek Garakan Parawira Bebas. Baliau sampek juo basuo jo Ihsan Abbas, surang ahli sijarah Islam.

Sakumbalinyo dari Masia ka Jerman, baliau manyalasaian Ph.D pado 1957, dan bakarajo jo orientalis Berthold Spuler. Pado 1958, balia dikirim ka Irak dek pamarentah Jerman untuak bakarajo di kaduaan di sinan. Indak lamo sasudah baliau tibo di Baghdad, Brigadir Abd al-Karim Qasim manjatuahan pamarentahan dalam kudeta maliter badarah nan, disabuik Revolusi 14 Juli. Madelung tinggal di Irak salamo duo taun lai. Susudahnyo, baliau manjadi pangaja di Universitas Chicago.

Madelung adolah Laudian Professor of Arabic pado Universitas Oxford antaro taun 1978 inggo 1998. Baliau lah manulih sacaro ekstentif tantang sijarah Islam dan aliran-aliran Islam sarupo Syi'ah jo Ismailiyah. Baliau talah manjabaik sabagai dewan editor pado babarapo jurnal akademik, tamasuak di Journal of Arabic and Islamic Studies. Kini ko baliau adolah ahli panaliti senior pado Institute for Ismaili Studies di London

Karya 
 Madelung, W. (editor) - Arabic Texts Concerning The History of The Zaydi Imams of Tabaristan, Daylaman And Gilan, Franz Steiner, 1987
 Madelung, W. - Religious Trends in Early Islamic Iran, 1988
 Madelung, W. - Religious and Ethnic Movements in Medieval Islam, 1992
 Madelung, W. - The Succession to Muhammad, Cambridge University Press, 1997
 Madelung, W. and Walker, P. - An Ismaili Heresiography, Leiden, 1998
 Madelung, W. and Walker, P. - The Advent of the Fatimids: A Contemporary Shi'i Witness, I.B. Tauris, 2000
 Madelung, W. - Der Imam al-Qasim ibn Ibrahim und die Glaubenslehre der Zaiditen, Walter De Gruyter Incorporated, 2002
 Madelung, W. - Religious school and sects in medieval Islam

Caliak pulo 
 Daftar candikiawan Islam moderen

Rujuakan

Pautan lua 
 Institute for Ismaili Studies  - commemoration in honour of Wilferd Madelung.

Lahia 1930
Urang iduik
Tokoh Inggirih
Islamolog