7th seminar of IRCICA and Imam Bukhari Research Center (Samarkand, Uzbekistan): Dr. Nilüfer Kalkan Yorulmaz’s lecture

The seventh of the online seminars coordinated by IRCICA and Imam Bukhari International Scientific Research Centre (Samarkand, Uzbekistan) was delivered by Dr. Nilüfer Kalkan Yorulmaz from Istanbul University Faculty of Theology, on 24 December 2024, about “Tradition of Transmission and Isnad in Samarkand in the First Three Centuries of the Hijra”. The lecturer pointed out that research on the history of Islamic scholarship in Samarkand has focused mostly on the period after the fourth century Hijra. The situation of scholarship in the city during the earlier period, the second and third centuries Hijra, has not been examined fully yet; for example, we have limited knowledge about the main narrators (“ravi”) of Hadith during the period, their sessions and debates, their views on various issues in the domain of “kalam”, and other features of scholarly activity in Islamic sciences during the second and third centuries Hijra. The lecturer, who wrote the book titled “Ravî and İsnad in the East (Samarkand in the first three centuries Hijra)” (in Turkish), investigates these processes on the basis of the activities and relationships of Imam Abu Hanifah’s students in Samarkand and of the Hadith scholar Abdullah bin Abdurrahman al-Darimi. In this talk, Yorulmaz communicated her findings relating to the transmissions, teacher-pupil relationships, written works, and related subjects concerning the Hadith narrators who could be identified.