Harald Motzki Explained
Harald Motzki (1948–2019) was a German-trained Islamic scholar who wrote on the transmission of hadith. He received his doctorate in Islamic Studies in 1978 from the University of Bonn. He was a professor of Islamic Studies at Nijmegen University (Radboud Universitet Nijmegen) in the Netherlands.
Motzki had been called by fellow scholar of Islam, Christopher Melchert, "the undisputed dean of hadith studies".[1]
Motzki died on February 8, 2019.[2] [3]
See also
References
- Christopher Melchert; Harald Motzki with Nicolet Boeckhoff-van der Voort and Sean Anthony, Analysing Muslim Traditions: Studies in Legal, Exegetical and Maghāzī Ḥadith. J Semit Stud 2012; 57 (2): 436. doi: 10.1093/jss/fgs020
- Web site: Lange . Christian . In memoriam Harald Motzki . The Netherlands Interuniversity School for Islamic Studies (NISIS) . Facebook . 19 February 2019.
- Web site: Elich . Joed . van Vliet . Kathy . Oueslati . Abdurraouf . van der Hoek . Nicolette . van den Boogert . Maurits . The news of Professor Harald Motzki’s death saddens us deeply. . Middle East, Islamic, and African Studies - Brill Publishing . Facebook . 19 February 2019.
Bibliography
- Reconstruction of a Source of Ibn Isḥāq’s Life of The Prophet and Early Qurʾān Exegesis (2017), Georgias Press.
- Analyzing Muslim Traditions: Studies in Legal, Exegetical and Maghazi Hadith (2009) [with Nicolet Boekhoff-van der Voort and Sean W. Anthony) {{ISBN|978-90-04-18049-9}}
*''Hadith: Origins and Developments'' (2004) {{ISBN|0-86078-704-4}}
*''The Origins of Islamic Jurisprudence'' (2002) [with Marion H. Katz]
- The Biography of Muhammad: The Issue of the Sources (2000), Brill Academic Pub
Festschrifts
- The Transmission and Dynamics of the Textual Sources of Islam: Essays in Honor of Harald Motzki, Brill Academic Pub.
