Wilferd Madelung
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Wilferd Ferdinand Madelung, FBA was a German author and scholar of Islamic history widely recognised for his contributions to the fields of Islamic and Iranian studies. He was appreciated in Iran for
Madelung in 2006
The Succession to Muhammad
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The Succession to Muhammad is a book by Wilferd Madelung published by the Cambridge University Press in 1997. Madelung investigates the events after the death of Muhammad, where there was a battle to
Wilferd Madelung
…the Laudian Professor of Arabic at the University of Oxford and a Fellow of St John’s College there from 1978 to 1998. During this time, his 1997 book The Succession to Muhammad was celebrated as a landmark work in the equitable depiction of Shia views on the Islamic succession process following the death of Muhammad. Madelung…
The Succession to Muhammad