Program in Basic Islamic Studies

The aim of the department is to produce knowledge based on the basic sources of Islam, to share the knowledge produced with the society, to address the subjects in the field at academic level and to make them teaching subjects. In all areas of Islamic thought, there is always a great need for research that takes academic attitude as a principle in order to produce accurate religious knowledge by using basic sources. The Program consists of eight departments: Qur’anic Exegesis, Qur’anic Recitation, Hadith, Islamic Jurisprudence, Kalam, History of Islamic Sects, Sufism, and Arabic Language and Rhetoric.

Head of Department:  Prof.Dr. Fatma Asiye ŞENAT

Vice Head of Department:  Prof.Dr. Sezai ENGİN
Vice Head of Department:  Assist.Prof.Dr. Sercan YAVUZ

1.Department of Qur’anic Exegesis

• ​Prof.Dr. Fatma Asiye ŞENAT (Head of Department)
• Prof.Dr. Ali Rıza GÜL
• Assoc.Prof.Dr. Ömer MÜFTÜOĞLU
• Assoc.Prof.Dr. Fatih TOK
• Assist.Prof.Dr. Hatice AVCI

2.Department of Kalâm

• Prof.Dr. Hüseyin MARAZ (Head of Department)
• Prof.Dr. Namık Kemal OKUMUŞ 
• Assist.Prof.Dr. Sercan YAVUZ
• Assist.Prof.Dr. Meryem ÖZDEMİR KARDAŞ
• Assist.Prof.Dr. Sadık TANRIKULU

3.Department of Arabic Language and Rhetoric ​

• Assoc.Prof.Dr. Yusuf KARATAŞ (Head of Department)
• Prof.Dr. Dursun HAZER 
• Assist.Prof.Dr. Muharrem ERTAŞ
• Lecturer.Dr. Ercan ÇAYLAR
• Lecturer Adam Tag El - Nasr SHETA EL- ASHRY
• Lecturer Wafaa Amer Rmaidh AL-HAMADANI
• Lecturer İbrahim BALIK
• Lecturer Cihat SUBAŞI
• Lecturer Tunahan SAĞLAM
• Lecturer Babıker Osman KHALIFA IDRIS
• Lecturer Abdullah Enes SOYKAN
• Lecturer Enes BALI
• Res.Assist. Muhammet İhsan UYGUR

 ​4.Department of Hadith

• Prof.Dr. Mustafa ÖZTOPRAK(Head of Department)
• Prof.Dr. Halil İbrahim TURHAN
• Prof.Dr. Sezai ENGİN 

5.Department of Islamic Jurisprudence

• Assoc.Prof.Dr. Yunus ARAZ (Head of Department)
• Assist.Prof.Dr. Ahmet ÇETİNKAYA
• Assist.Prof.Dr. Fatma HAZAR
• Res.Assist. Abdurrahman ÇAVĞA

6.Department of History of Islamic Sects

• Assist.Prof.Dr. Metin AVCI (Head of Department)

7.Department of Sufism

• Assoc.Prof.Dr. Sevim ARSLAN (Head of Department)

8.Department of Qur’anic Recitation 

• Assoc.Prof.Dr. Fatih TOK (Head of Department
• Lecturer.Dr. Ömer ŞİMŞEK
• Lecturer.Dr. Meryem YERLİ
• Lecturer.Dr. Gülşen KILIÇ
• Lecturer Şule AKMAN