Yavuz Unal, PhD

The period between 1920 and 1950, which could be labeled "a political vacuum of religious education", was no different for hadith (sayings of the Prophet) studies. However, the Turkish Directorate of Religious Affairs gave Ahmed Naim the duty of translating and interpreting the summary of Sahih al-Bukhari by al-Zabidi into Turkish and the new alphabet so that the Turkish nation could learn about its religion. The work that Ahmed Naim started, and of which he completed only three volumes, was finished by Kamil Miras and published in twelve volumes by the Directorate of Religious Affairs between 1928 and 1949. The book became one of the classics in Republican history through the success of the authors and the originality of the preface written on hadith methodology by Ahmed Naim.