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After [[World War II]], the adolescent Wilferd accompanied his parents<ref>{{cite web | url=https://geneee.org/wilferd/madelung?lang=de | title=Wilferd Madelung }}</ref> to the USA where his father [[Georg Hans Madelung]] continued his career as an [[Aerospace engineering|aeronautic engineer]] specialized on rockets. Wilferd Madelung enrolled at [[Georgetown University]] in [[Washington, D.C.|Washington DC]] before going to [[Cairo]] in 1951 to study [[Arabic literature]] and [[History of Islam|Islamic history]].<ref name="auto">{{cite web | url=https://www.iis.ac.uk/news/2004/march/the-institute-s-latest-publication-honours-wilferd-madelung-s-contributions-to-islamic-studies/ | title=The Institute's Latest Publication Honours Wilferd Madelung's Contributions to Islamic Studies }}</ref> From 1958 to 1960 he served as [[Cultural attaché]] at the [[West Germany|West German]] Embassy in [[Baghdad]], before starting his scientific career.<ref>{{cite web | urlname=https:"auto"//www.iis.ac.uk/news/2004/march/the-institute-s-latest-publication-honours-wilferd-madelung-s-contributions-to-islamic-studies/ | title=The Institute's Latest Publication Honours Wilferd Madelung's Contributions to Islamic Studies }}</ref>

Madelung received his [[doctorate]] and [[habilitation]] at the [[University of Hamburg]] in Germany (lecturer for [[Islamic studies]] 1963‒1966).<ref>https://www.hpk.uni-hamburg.de/resolve/id/cph_person_00001194, july 12 2022</ref> His PhD thesis was about "The [[Qarmatians]] and the [[Fatimids]]. Their mutual relations and their teachings on the [[Imamate]]."<ref>"Quarmaten und Fatimiden. Ihre gegenseitigen Beziehungen und ihre Lehre vom Imamat." Doctoral certificate (dated 30th of August, 1957) with the signature: ''364-13 Phil Fak Prom 1372'' in the State Archives of the Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg.</ref> He was Visiting Professor at the [[University of Texas at Austin]] in 1963; then he was Assistant Professor (1964–65), Associate Professor (1966–68) and then Professor of Islamic History from 1969 until 1978 at the [[University of Chicago]].<ref>{{cite web | urlname=https://www.iis.ac.uk/news/2004/march/the-institute-s-latest-publication-honours-wilferd-madelung-s-contributions-to-islamic-studies/ | title=The Institute's Latest Publication Honours Wilferd Madelung's Contributions to Islamic Studies }}<"auto"/ref><ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/fellows/wilferd-madelung-FBA | title=Professor Wilferd Madelung FBA }}</ref> He was [[Laudian Professor of Arabic]] at the [[University of Oxford]] from 1978 to 1998.<ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.sjc.ox.ac.uk/discover/people/wilferd-madelung/ | title=Wilferd Madelung }}</ref>