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Wilferd Madelung

1930 - 2023

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Wilferd Ferdinand Madelung FBA (26 December 1930 – 9 May 2023) was a German author and scholar of Islamic history widely recognised for his contributions to the fields of Islamic and Iranian studies. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Wilferd Madelung has received more than 165,527 page views. His biography is available in 19 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 15 in 2019). Wilferd Madelung is the 3,985th most popular writer (up from 4,708th in 2019), the 3,984th most popular biography from Germany (up from 4,172nd in 2019) and the 240th most popular German Writer.

Memorability Metrics

  • 170k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 50.30

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 19

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.63

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.40

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Notable Works

Rational theology in interfaith communication
Islamic theology, Islamic philosophy, Islam
2004
Religious and ethnic movements in medieval Islam
History, Islam, Islamic empire, history
1992
Imam Al-Qasim Ibn Ibrahim und Die Glaubenslehre der Zaiditen
1965
The Succession to Muhammad
History, Empire islamique, Califat
Lisez
1996
Studies In Medieval Muslim Thought And History
Islam, history, Islam, doctrines, Islamic philosophy
2013
Akhbār aʾimmah al-Zaydīyah fī Ṭabaristān wa-Daylamān wa-Jīlān
Sources, Early works to 1800, Imams (Shiites)
1987

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Wilferd Madelung ranks 3,985 out of 7,302. Before him are Simonas Daukantas, Emmy Hennings, Titus Calpurnius Siculus, Lady Ise, Frankétienne, and Yuriy Venelin. After him are Joan Lindsay, Matilde Serao, Maxwell Anderson, Ralph Ellison, Sarah Kirsch, and Alexander Neckam.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1930, Wilferd Madelung ranks 320. Before him are Bradford Dillman, Jānis Krūmiņš, Yuri Rytkheu, Alevtina Kolchina, Albert S. Ruddy, and Richard Montague. After him are Viktor Tsybulenko, Henri Coppens, Pat McCormick, Liviu Librescu, Horst Bienek, and Joachim Hansen. Among people deceased in 2023, Wilferd Madelung ranks 348. Before him are Dževad Karahasan, Alain Besançon, Helena Pilejczyk, Abraham Lempel, Alfredo Rojas, and Bill Hayden. After him are Renate Boy, Erkin Koray, Pat McCormick, Nicolae Neagoe, Russell Banks, and Zdeněk Mácal.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Wilferd Madelung ranks 3,984 out of 7,253. Before him are Ernest II, Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg (1564), Joseph-Nicolas Robert-Fleury (1797), Andreas Kaplan (1977), Carl Theodore Liebermann (1842), Theo Lingen (1903), and Karl Allmendinger (1891). After him are Bernhard II, Duke of Saxe-Jena (1638), Emmanuel Scheffer (1924), Sarah Kirsch (1935), Gernot Rohr (1953), Otto von Emmich (1848), and Philip, Duke of Holstein-Gottorp (1570).

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Among WRITERS In Germany

Among writers born in Germany, Wilferd Madelung ranks 240. Before him are Christian Gotthilf Salzmann (1744), Friedrich von Bodenstedt (1819), Leopold Zunz (1794), Max Lange (1832), Philipp Nicolai (1556), and Emmy Hennings (1885). After him are Sarah Kirsch (1935), Hans Carossa (1878), Otto Ludwig (1813), Oskar Maria Graf (1894), Theodor Plievier (1892), and James Krüss (1926).

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