Ibn Haldun University Publications releases a new book titled "Sahih al-Bukhari: Traditional and Contemporary Approaches." The book emerged from the "International Sahih al-Bukhari Symposium," which was organized by the School of Islamic Sciences of Ibn Haldun University (IHU) on 1-3 November 2019.
Beyond a mere symposium outcome, the book includes articles that have been revised and prepared according to a scientific method, and consists of articles in Turkish, English and Arabic complying with IHU’s trilingual vision. The book prepared under the editorship of Prof. Serdar Demirel, Asst. Prof. Hamzeh Al-Bakri and Asst. Prof. Ahmad Snober, contains articles issued by high-level international figures.
After the compilation of Sahih al-Bukhari, classified by Muhammad Ibn Ismail al-Bukhari (D. AH 256/870 AD), many works were written about him with different purposes and contents in each historical period. Some of these works focused on the methodology of al-Bukhari in his Sahih, while others paid attention to his teachers, students and narrators he included as well as the conditions he applied in choosing them, texts of the hadiths themselves, in terms of critiquing those texts, understanding them, and analyzing them and legal opinions that al-Bukhari chose in his Sahih.
The trust in Bukhari's Sahih did not exempt him from scientific criticism, and historical criticisms were directed at his work from within and outside of the Ahl al-Sunnah. The criticisms made often contributed to the understanding of its scientific value rather than discrediting Sahih al-Bukhari.
The book "Sahih al-Bukhari: Traditional and Contemporary Approaches" includes academic studies on Sahih from different perspectives by scientists who are experts in the field of hadith from different countries. Each study in the book examines the book from different aspects by focusing on a specific subject related to Sahih. With this content, the study will help to understand the Sahih in accordance with the purpose of its author. In addition, it evaluates many criticisms directed to the book from the past until nowadays in an academic style. The name “Sahih al-Bukhari: Traditional and Contemporary Approaches” was deemed appropriate for this study, as it reflects its purpose and content.
