Wilferd Madelung has made significant contributions to scholarship
on mediaeval Islamic movements, including Twelver Shi‘ism, Zaydism
and Ismailism. He is a former Laudian Professor of Arabic at the
University of Oxford and Senior Research Fellow with The Institute
of Ismaili Studies.
Farhad Daftary is Associate Director of the Institute of Ismaili
Studies. He is an authority on Mediaeval Islam and Ismaili studies,
consulting Editor of Encyclopaedia Iranica, and sits on the
Advisory Board of the Encyclopaedia of Islam (3rd edition).
“Clearly the editors of ISLA have selected articles they consider
will augment the existing reference sources – and they have
completed this selection task with acumen and skill. The work as a
whole remains, however, a “specialist encyclopaedia” […] – or
perhaps more accurately, it is an encyclopaedia for specialists
[…]. In that sense, it is a valuable addition […] to the reference
work available at present. Perhaps its greatest merit is that it
brings to an international audience a key example of and an
excellent advertisement for high-quality Iranian scholarship which
has hitherto been available but known only to a few.”
Robert Gleave in Journal of the American Oriental Society, 130. 1
(Jan-Mar 2010), P. 111-113.
".. the publication of Encyclopaedia Islamica is a notable step
forward in including the Shi‘a viewpoint in scholarship on
Islam."
Mousa al‑Reza Wahdati in Journal of Shi‘a Islamic Studies, Winter
2015, Vol. VIII, No. 1.
"Printed on coated paper, the five volumes so far published are an
impressive achievement both in production as well as in scholarship
related to Persian themes."
Yashab Tur in Islamic Sciences, Vol. 14 (Summer 2016) No. 1.
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