Harald Motzki

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Harald Motzki (born August 25, 1948 in Berlin ; died February 8, 2019 in Goch - Asperden ) was a German scholar of religion and Islam.

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Harald Motzki completed his training in Germany. His subjects included religious studies, Semitic studies, Islamic studies, Old Testament studies and history. He received his doctorate in 1978 at the University of Bonn on the subject of Ḏimma and Égalité: the non-Muslim minorities of Egypt in the second half of the 18th century and the Bonaparte expedition (1798–1801) . He was Professor of Islamic Studies at the Faculty of Philosophy, Theology and Religious Studies at the University of Nijmegen (Radboud Universitet Nijmegen) in the Netherlands . His fields of work included the exegesis of the Koran , tradition of hadith and the beginnings of Islamic jurisprudence . He contributed various articles to the Encyclopaedia of Islam .

Publications (selection)

  • Shamanism as a problem of religious studies terminology. Religious Studies seminar d. Univ. Bonn, 1977, published as Ms.
  • Ḏimma and Egalité. The non-Muslim minorities of Egypt in the second half of the 18th century and the Bonaparte expedition (1798-1801) (= studies on the minority problem in Islam 5)
  • The beginnings of Islamic jurisprudence. Their development in Mecca up to the middle of the 2nd / 8th centuries Century (= treatises for the customer of the Orient. Vol. L, 2). Steiner, Stuttgart 1991, ISBN 3-515-05433-2 .
  • Religious advice in Islam. Origin, meaning and practice of the muftī and the fatwā . In: Zeitschrift für Religionswissenschaft 2 (1994), pp. 3–22.
  • The Biography of Muhammad: The Issue of the Sources (2000), Brill Academic Pub.
  • (with Marion H. Katz :) The Origins of Islamic Jurisprudence (2002) ISBN 90-04-12131-5 .
  • Īadīth. Origins and developments (= The Formation of the Classical Islamic World 28). Ashgate, Variorum, Aldershot, Hampshire [u. a.] 2004, ISBN 0-86078-704-4 ( review, partial view )
  • (with Everhard Ditters as editor): Approaches to Arabic linguistics: presented to Kees Versteegh on the occasion of his sixtieth birthday (= Studies in Semitic languages ​​and linguistics, Volume 49). Brill, Leiden 2007 online .
  • (with Nicolet Boekhoff-van der Voort and Sean W. Anthony) Analyzing Muslim Traditions: Studies in Legal, Exegetical and Maghazi Hadith (2009)
  • How credible are the hadiths? Springer VS, Wiesbaden 2014 ( publisher link )
  • The role of the prophetic tradition (Hadith) in Islam. In: Peter Gemeinhardt (Ed.): Between exegesis and religious practice. Mohr Siebeck, Tübingen [2016]

Festschrift

  • Nicolet Boekhoff-van der Voort, Kees Versteegh and Joas Wagemakers (Eds.): The Transmission and Dynamics of the Textual Sources of Islam: Essays in Honor of Harald Motzki , Brill Academic Pub. 2011 ( partial online view )

References and footnotes

  1. ↑ https://www.trauer.niederrhein-nachrichten.de/trauerbeispiel/harald-motzki
  2. ↑ Compare entry in the catalog of the German National Library

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personal data
SURNAME Motzki, Harald
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German scholar of religion and Islam
DATE OF BIRTH August 25, 1948
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH February 8, 2019
Place of death Goch - Asperden