Our Mission
The Bukhari Institute is a non-profit organization aimed at teaching, promoting, and presenting various arts and sciences from the vast tradition of Muslim culture. Since its inception in the summer of 2001, it has offered classical Arabic courses, lecture series’ on various topics, and sponsors an annual month long Islamic Art exhibition called “In the Light of Islam.”
Treating ignorance as the root cause of strains between cultures, The Bukhari Institute hopes to bridge the civilizational gaps with knowledge. In a time when representations of the Muslim world are still reduced to Hollywood stereotypes and fringe radicalism, we hope to balance the scales by presenting that which represents the vast majority of Muslim culture over its fourteen centuries of existence. Understanding the artistic, cultural, scientific, and intellectual output of the Muslim world is best achieved when one learns its arts and sciences at the hands of those who have received their knowledge from chains of transmission reaching back through the generations. It is the beauty and depth of this tradition that the Bukhari Institute intends to present.
With this in mind, The Bukhari Institute hopes to serve as a well of knowledge and art from which various people may draw. Providing Muslim Americans (especially the youth) with opportunities to connect with their vast tradition, while simultaneously offering the rest of the American community access to the wealth of artistic and intellectual output that Islamic culture has to offer, The Bukhari Institute hopes to become a bridge traveled by many seekers of knowledge.
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