Harald Motzki

Harald Motzki was born on August 25, 1948 in West Berlin, he grew up in a Catholic family as the son of Guenther and Brunhilde Motzki. Harald Motzki began his university studies focusing on comparative religion, Islamic studies, Old and New Testament studies, European history, Arabic, and Semitic languages. He received his doctorate in Islamic Studies in 1978 from the University of Bonn. He wrote on the transmission of hadith and 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

  1. ↑ 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
  2. ↑ Lange, Christian. "In memoriam Harald Motzki". The Netherlands Interuniversity School for Islamic Studies (NISIS). Facebook. Retrieved 19 February 2019.
  3. ↑ 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. Retrieved 19 February 2019.

Bibliography

  • Reconstruction of a Source of Ibn Isḥāq’s Life of The Prophet and Early Qurʾān Exegesis (2017), Georgias Press. ISBN 978-14-63-20659-8
  • 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] ISBN 90-04-12131-5
  • The Biography of Muhammad: The Issue of the Sources (2000), Brill Academic Pub ISBN 978-90-04-11513-2

Festschrifts

  • The Transmission and Dynamics of the Textual Sources of Islam: Essays in Honor of Harald Motzki, Brill Academic Pub.
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