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Amine Kübra Haroon

Graduation Year / Degree: 2024 / MA
Thesis Field: Islamic Studies
Thesis Title: Amerika'da Bir Mevlevi: Süleyman Hayati Loras
Thesis Advisor: Prof. Dr. Süleyman Derin

Ayaz Asadov

Graduation Year / Degree: 2024 / PhD
Thesis Field: History
Thesis Title: Intellectual Virtues of an Ottoman 'Alim: Madrasa Education and the Making of a Scholar in Late Seventeenth and Eighteenth-Century Istanbul
Thesis Advisor: Prof. Tahsin Görgün
Current Institution: Ibn Haldun University

Elif Canaltay

Graduation Year / Degree: 2024 / MA
Thesis Field: Philosophy
Thesis Title: Human, Society, and State in Confucius and al-Farabi: A Comparative Analysis
Thesis Advisor: Dr. Öğr. Üyesi Ercüment Asıl ve Elvida Ünal An
Current Institution:

Esra Yağmur

Graduation Year / Degree: 2024 / MA
Thesis Field: History of Thought
Thesis Title: Evaluation of the Influence of Ottoman Practice on the Development of the Concept of Tolerance in the 18th-Century Christian West: The Example of Voltaire
Thesis Advisor: Prof. Tahsin Görgün
Current Institution: TRT World

Evren Belkız

Graduation Year / Degree: 2024 / MA & PhD
Thesis Field: Philosophy
Thesis Title: Pierre Charron's (1541–1603) Concept of Wisdom: An Analysis through Kınalızâde Ali Çelebi (1510–1572)
Thesis Advisor: Prof. Tahsin Görgün

Hossein Turner

Graduation Year / Degree:2024 / PhD
Thesis Field: Sociology
Thesis Title: COVID-19 Komplo Teorilerinin Anlatısal Argümanlar Olarak Değerlendirilmesi
Thesis Advisor: Assoc. Prof. Önder Küçükural
Current Institution: Bursa Technical University

Mahmudul Hasan Naeem

Graduation Year / Degree: 2024 / MA
Thesis Field: Political Anthropology
Thesis Title: Beyond the Banalities of Label: Narratives vs Realities of Communal Violence in Bangladesh
Thesis Advisor: Prof. Irfan Ahmad
Current Institution: Ibn Haldun University
E-mail Adresi: mahmudhasannaeem@gmail.com

Mokhirakhon Nosirova

Graduation Year / Degree: 2024 / MA
Thesis Field: Political Sociology
Thesis Title: The Role of Urban Religiosity in Cultural Resistance to Soviet-Style Secularization: The Case of Uzbekistan
Thesis Advisor: Assoc. Prof. Vahdettin Işık
Current Institution: Marmara University
Email: mohira.n@yahoo.com

Taiba Riaz

Graduation Year / Degree: 2024 / MA
Thesis Field: Civilization Studies
Thesis Title: The Concept of Insan in the Thought of Modern Muslim Thinkers: Taha Abdurrahman and Syed Muhammad Naquib al-Attas
Thesis Advisor: Assist. Prof. Heba Raouf Ezzat

Danish Naeem

Graduation Year / Degree: 2023 / PhD
Thesis Field: Civilization Studies

Erol Fırtın

Graduation Year / Degree: 2023 / PhD
Thesis Field: Political Science
Thesis Title: Ottoman Theories of Virtue Politics: Contribution of Kınalızade Ali Çelebi
Thesis Advisor: Prof. Recep Şentürk
Current Institution: Istanbul Medeniyet University
Email: erol.firtin@medeniyet.edu.tr

Jeroen Vlug

Graduation Year / Degree: 2023 / PhD
Thesis Field: Islamic Studies
Thesis Title: The Contested Grounds of Human Rights in Islam and the West: A Comparative Study
Thesis Advisor: Prof. Recep Şentürk
Current Institution: Movisie & Islamic University of Applied Sciences Rotterdam

Haldun Karahanlı

Graduation Year / Degree: 2022 / PhD
Thesis Field: Political Science
Thesis Title: Conflictability: Political Imagination and the Power Game — Revisiting the Egyptian Revolution 2011
Thesis Advisor: Assist. Prof. Heba Raouf Ezzat
Current Institution: The Turkish Presidency

Huthaifah Abdallah Busuulwa

Graduation Year / Degree: 2022 / PhD
Thesis Field: Civilization Studies
Thesis Title: Value-Based Argumentation and the Transition to a Low-Carbon Economy in Turkey and Portugal: Values, Arguments and Actions
Thesis Advisor: Assoc. Prof. Önder Küçükural
Current Institution: Cavendish University Uganda
Email: busuulwahuthaifa@gmail.com

Hümeyra Konuk

Graduation Year / Degree: 2022 / MA
Thesis Field: Philosophy
Thesis Title: The Concept of Truth (Ḥaqq) in the Thought of Elmalılı Muhammed Hamdi Yazır
Thesis Advisor: Prof. Tahsin Görgün
Current Institution: Osnabrück University
Email: humeyrakonuk@outlook.de

Fadi Zatari

Graduation Year / Degree: 2021 / PhD
Thesis Field: Political Science
Thesis Title: The Construction of a Theory of Civilization Through the Works of al-Māwardī
Thesis Advisor: Prof. Tahsin Görgün
Current Institution: Istanbul Sabahattin Zaim University

Melike Sıla Acar

Graduation Year / Degree: 2021 / MA
Thesis Field: Sociology
Thesis Title: Calls to Prayer and Sounds of Birds: The Production of Space and Placemaking Practices in Erenköy, Konya
Thesis Advisor: Assist. Prof.  Nursem Keskin Aksay
Current Institution: Tigris Development Agency
Email: msilaacar@gmail.com

Sheeba Arif

Graduation Year / Degree: 2021 / MA
Thesis Field: Islamic Studies
Thesis Title: Seeking Certitude: Iktisāb and Ilhām in Imam al-Ghazālī's Theory of Knowledge
Thesis Advisor: Prof. Recep Şentürk

Alican Koyuncu

Graduation Year / Degree: 2020 / MA
Thesis Field: History
Thesis Title: French Policy of Ottoman Syria During the Third Republic Era, 1870–1924
Thesis Advisor: Assist. Prof. İbrahim Vehbi Baysan
Current Institution: Aydınlı Grup
Email: alicankoyuncu1905@gmail.com

Merve Cebeci

Graduation Year / Degree: 2020 / MA
Thesis Field: Civilization Studies
Thesis Title: Stewards of the Earth: Islamic Environmentalism in Classical and Contemporary Islamic Thought
Thesis Advisor: Assoc. Prof. Önder Küçükural
Current Institution: International Montessori Schools
Email: gulgunmerve@gmail.com

Mohammad Hossain

Graduation Year / Degree: 2020 / MA
Thesis Field: History
Thesis Title: Ecology, Epidemics and the Colonial State: Environmental Change and Health in Eastern Bengal Delta, 1858–1947
Thesis Advisor: Assist. Prof. Ercüment Asıl
Current Institution: Ibn Haldun University
Email: mohot786@gmail.com

Rajeev Kumar

Graduation Year / Degree: 2020 / MA
Thesis Field: Civilization Studies
Thesis Title: The Quest of Kabir Conscience as Poetry in Pre-Modern India
Thesis Advisor: Assist. Prof. Ercüment Asıl
Current Institution: Ibn Haldun University
Email: rajeev.kumar@stu.ihu.edu.tr

Cemre Ateşçi

Graduation Year / Degree: 2019 / MA
Thesis Field: Islamic Studies
Thesis Title: Imam al-Ghazali's Understanding of Human Ontology and Behavior
Thesis Advisor: Prof. Recep Şentürk
Current Institution: 29 Mayıs University
Email: cemreatesci@gmail.com

Hatice Kübra Yeğin

Graduation Year / Degree: 2019 / MA
Thesis Field: English Language and Literature
Thesis Title: "Winter Has Got No King": An Ecocritical Analysis of George R. R. Martin's A Song of Ice and Fire
Thesis Advisor: Prof. Nagihan Haliloğlu
Current Institution: Ibn Haldun University School of Languages

Sena Taha

Graduation Year / Degree: 2019 / MA
Thesis Field: Sociology
Thesis Title: International Aid for Refugees in Times of Crisis
Thesis Advisor: Assist. Prof. İbrahim Vehbi Baysan
Current Institution: Ibn Haldun University
Email: sanyyakyo@gmail.com

Zehra Vlug Ünver

Graduation Year / Degree: 2019 / MA
Thesis Field: Education
Thesis Title: Islamic Primary Education in the Netherlands: Negotiating Religious and National Values in an Era of Societal Tensions
Thesis Advisor: Prof. Heba Raouf Ezzat
Current Institution: Hollanda Diyanet Vakfı
Email: zehravlug@gmail.com

Cyrus McGoldrick

Graduation Year / Degree: 2018 / MA
Thesis Field: Sociology
Thesis Title: Homo Sacer: Muslims as Outlaws in the American Political Imagination
Thesis Advisor: Assist. Prof. Heba Raouf Ezzat
Email: cyrus.mcgoldrick@gmail.com

Elvira Kulieva

Graduation Year / Degree: 2018 / MA
Thesis Field: History / Cultural Studies
Thesis Title: 'Doğu Hassas Bir Konudur': Soviet Orientalism in Film (1955–1970)
Thesis Advisor: Prof. Nagihan Haliloğlu
Current Institution: 
University of Freiburg

Gülsüm Parlak

Graduation Year / Degree: 2018 / MA
Thesis Field: Philosophy of Islam
Thesis Title: The Nature of Human Soul in al-Farabi's Philosophy and Its Influence on Medieval Philosophy
Thesis Advisor: Prof. Alparslan Açıkgenç
Current Institution: Universiti Malaya
Email: gulsummparlak@gmail.com

Mukerrem Miftah

Graduation Year / Degree: 2018 / PhD
Thesis Field: Sociology
Thesis Title: Crossing the Border Between Religion and Civilization: Trends and Cases in the Study of Islamic and Western Civilizations
Thesis Advisor: Prof. Recep Şentürk
Current Institution: Ethiopian Civil Service University
Email: mukerremmiftah@gmail.com

Abdurrahman Ali Mihirig

Graduation Year / Degree: 2017 / MA
Thesis Field: Islamic Studies
Thesis Title: The Late Ottoman Kalam Tradition: Ismail Gelenbevi (1730–1791) and His Kalam Treatises
Thesis Advisor: Prof. Alparslan Açıkgenç
Current Institution: 
Oxford University

Hiroaki Kawanishi

Graduation Year / Degree: 2017 / MA
Thesis Field: Theology
Thesis Title: The Concept of Matter and Plants in Islam
Thesis Advisor: Prof. Recep Şentürk
Current Institution: University of Tübingen
Email: hiroaki.kawanishi@uni-tuebingen.de

Ihsan Altıntaş

Graduation Year / Degree: 2017 / MA
Thesis Field: Religious Studies
Thesis Title: Revivalist Discourse in Modern Hinduism: A Socio-Religious Study of the Ramakrishna Movement
Thesis Advisor: Assoc. Prof. Önder Küçükural
Current Institution: University of Münster
Email: ihsanaltintash@gmail.com