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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".

Motzki died on February 8, 2019. Provided by Wikipedia