Harald Motzki

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

• Islamic scholars
• History of Hadith