al-Muallafat fi al-Hadith wa Ulumihi fi al-Ahd al-Jumhuri fi Turkiya - Bibliyughrafiya
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al-Mu‘allafāt fī al-ḥadīth wa-‘ulūmihī fī al-‘ahd al-jumhūrī fī Turkiyā – Bībliyūghrāfiyā (Works on Hadith and Its Sciences in the Republican Era in Turkey: A Bibliography) is a specialized bibliographic survey compiled by the Turkish scholar Bünyamin bin Durmuş Erul, documenting academic research, books, translations, and articles on hadith and its disciplines produced in Turkey during the Republican era from 1924 to 2003 .
Scope and Periodization
Erul notes in his introduction that although Turkish contributions to hadith literature span back to the Seljuk and Ottoman periods, the sheer volume of such material necessitated confining this bibliography chronologically to works produced under the Turkish Republic . The survey divides this timeline into three successive phases:
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First Period (1924–1949 CE / 25 years): A foundational phase during which eight major works were published . These include İsmail Hakkı İzmirli’s Tārīkh al-ḥadīth (1924) and Alf ḥadīth wa-ḥadīth (1928), Zâkir Kadirî Ugan’s study al-Riwāyāt al-dīniyya wa-ghayr al-dīniyya (1926), İzmirli and Şeyh Saffet Efendi’s debates over hadiths in Sufi and ethical works (1922–1927), Mustafa Sâdık Vicdanî’s treatise on the Prophet’s marriages (1928), Ahmet Naim’s introduction to hadith methodology Muqaddima fī uṣūl al-ḥadīth (1928), the twelve-volume Turkish translation and commentary on al-Zabidi's al-Tajrīd al-ṣarīḥ completed by Ahmet Naim and Kâmil Miras (1928–1948), and Ahmet Hamdi Akseki’s Aqwāl nabiyyinā al-wajīza (1945) .
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Second Period (1949–1982 CE / 33 years): Commencing with the establishment of the Faculty of Divinity (Ankara University Faculty of Theology) in 1949, the reopening of Imam Hatip schools in the 1951–1952 academic year, and the subsequent establishment of Higher Islamic Institutes across Istanbul (1959), Konya (1962), Kayseri (1965), Izmir (1966), Erzurum (1969), Bursa (1975), Samsun (1976), and Yozgat (1980), as well as the Faculty of Islamic Sciences in Erzurum (1971) . This phase produced nearly fifty research studies and doctoral dissertations, primarily focused on hadith methodology and history, including Fuat Sezgin’s doctoral dissertation on the sources of al-Bukhari (1956) and the scholarly efforts of Tayyib Okiç . It also witnessed Turkish translations of classical Islamic works such as al-Nawawi’s Riyāḍ al-ṣāliḥīn, Ibn Qayyim al-Jawziyya’s Zād al-ma‘ād, Muslim’s Ṣaḥīḥ, and works by Ibn Taymiyya .
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Third Period (1982–2003 CE / 21 years): Marked by the reorganization under the Higher Education Council Law of 1982, which converted Higher Islamic Institutes into divinity faculties and expanded their number across Turkey to twenty-three faculties . This expansion led to a major increase in academic research, yielding approximately 500 Master's theses, around 200 doctoral dissertations, and numerous professorial promotion studies . The period was further characterized by wide-ranging translations of contemporary Arab and Muslim scholars—such as Mustafa al-Siba'i, Subhi al-Salih, Muhammad Mustafa al-A'zami, Abd al-Fattah Abu Ghuddah, and Muhammad Hamidullah—as well as Western orientalists including Ignác Goldziher, Joseph Schacht, James Robson, W. Montgomery Watt, and G. H. A. Juynboll .
Method and Structure
While the works of the first period are listed chronologically, the bibliography arranges the literature of the second and third periods thematically by subject, providing within each entry an Arabic translation of the title followed by the original Turkish title, author, institution, page count, and publication details . The main thematic headings include:
- Authority and Status of the Sunnah (Ḥujjiyyat al-sunna wa-makānatuhā): Studies on solitary narrations (khabar al-wāḥid), modern and early doubts surrounding hadith, and the role of hadith in understanding the Quran .
- History of Hadith (Tārīkh al-ḥadīth): Research on the early transmission, textual recording, the Companions' narration practices, and the numerical growth of narrations .
- Hadith Sciences (‘Ulūm al-ḥadīth): Monographs and dissertations on conflicting hadiths (mukhtalif al-ḥadīth), abrogation (al-nāsikh wa-l-mansūkh), and occasions of hadith revelation (asbāb wurūd al-ḥadīth) .
- Biographical Evaluation and Criticism (‘Ilm al-rijāl wa-l-jarḥ wa-l-ta‘dīl): Dissertations and manuals on transmitter criticism, critical terminology, and individual evaluation works .
- Comprehension and Interpretation of Hadith (Fahm al-ḥadīth wa-l-sunna): Works addressing legal hadiths (aḥkām al-ḥadīth), hermeneutics, methodological problems in interpreting the Sunnah, and the Companions' comprehension of prophetic traditions .
- Hadith Criticism and Textual Analysis (Naqd al-ḥadīth): Studies investigating textual criticism (matn criticism), the impact of early socio-political events on hadith narration, reason's role in evaluation, and testing hadiths against the Quran .
The work concludes with a selection of notable academic articles published in Turkish theological journals and conference proceedings—by scholars including Mehmet Said Hatiboğlu, İsmail Hakkı Ünal, Mehmet Emin Özafşar, and Bünyamin Erul—highlighting their critical methodologies and calling for their translation into Arabic and English .
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