Authors

• Harun Bekiroğlu

  İnönü Üniversitesi İlahiyat Fakültesi, Malatya, Türkiye

  https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6815-8312

  Author Biography

  Born in Elazig/Turkey (1983). Graduated from Malatya Imām- Khaṭīb High School (1999). Graduated from Elazig Firat University Faculty of Theology (2003). Completed master's degree at Fırat University, Institute of Social Sciences, Department of Basic Islamic Sciences, with thesis on Iʿd̲j̲āz al-Ḳurʾān in Abu’l-Barakāt al-Nasafī’s commentary on the Ḳurʾān, Madārik al-tanzīl wa ḥaḳāʾiḳ al-taʾwīl (2005). Completed doctorate also in the same field with thesis on Evaluation of al-Burhān fī ʿulūm al-Ḳurʾān and Itḳān fī ʿulūm al-Ḳurʾān Books in Terms of Tafsir Methodology at Selcuk University (2012). Graduated from Pendik Haseki Education Center of Presidency of Religious Affairs (2009). In 2010, he worked as an Arabic Instructor at the Faculty of Theology at Hitit University. In 2015 he received the title of Assistant Professor and in 2021 Associate Professor at Tafsir field. Currently, he continues academic researches at Inonu University, under Faculty of Theology, Department of commentary/al-tafsīr. Married and father of three kids.

• Talip Tuğrul

  Muş Alparslan Üniversitesi, Muş, Türkiye

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2946-8948

  Author Biography

  Born in Elazig/Turkey (1976). Graduated from Konya Selcuk University Faculty of Theology (2000). Took special education under curriculum of traditional Islamic form. Has been in Austria between 2002 and 2006. Took education from Omer Nasuhi Education Center of Presidency of Religious Affairs (2010-2012). Completed master's degree at Marmara University, Institute of Social Sciences, Department of History of Islamic Sects under Department of Theology on Belief and worship in Tunceli Alevi's (The example of Sari Saltik Ocaği). Mr. Tugrul, currently studies his doctorate in the same field and been working as a lecturer at Mus Alparslan University since 2012. Currently studies on the History of Islamic Sects, Shiism, Alwites and Contemporary Islamic Movements. Married and father of two kids.

• Abdullah Demir

  Ankara Yıldırım Beyazıt Üniversitesi, Ankara, Türkiye

  https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7825-6573

  Author Biography

  Dr. Abdullah Demir, originally from Yozgat, was born in Kırşehir in 1980. He attended primary and secondary school in Kırıkkale. After graduating from Kırıkkale Imam Hatip High School in 1997, he pursued his undergraduate studies at Uludağ University, Faculty of Theology, completing his degree in 2002. Dr. Demir continued his academic journey and obtained his M.A. from Uludağ University, focusing on "The Imitators' Faith in the Maturidite School" in 2006. Further advancing his scholarly pursuits, he earned his Ph.D. from Sivas Cumhuriyet University in 2014. Dr. Demir's doctoral research, reflecting his commitment to theological scholarship, examines "The Kalām Method of Abū Ishāq Zāhid al-Saffār."

  Between 2003 and 2011, he worked as an imam-hatip, Qur'an course instructor, preacher, and prison preacher in the Turkish Presidency of Religious Affairs. During this period, one of his books, Dini Değerleri İle Diyarbakır (Diyarbakır with its Religious Values), which he co-written with Ali Melek, was published in 2009. Another book, Ceza İnfaz Kurumları Din Hizmetleri Rehberi (The Guide to Religious Services in Prisons), which he co-authored with Harun Işık, was published by the Presidency of Religious Affairs in 2012.

  He worked as a research assistant and assistant professor at Sivas Cumhuriyet University, Faculty of Theology, between 2014 and 2017. During this period, he also served as a teacher of Religious Culture and Ethics at primary, middle, and high school levels at Sivas Cumhuriyet University College in the academic year 2014-2015. He conducted postdoctoral research at the University of Nottingham in the UK between 2015 and 2016, which was granted by the TUBITAK 2219 International Postdoctoral Research Fellowship Programme for Turkish Citizens. From 2016 to 2019, he was appointed Editor-in-Chief for Cumhuriyet Theology Journal, published in Turkey and indexed in Web of Science ESCI and SCOPUS indexes. In 2018, with the support of Sivas Cumhuriyet University, he initiated a project known as ISNAD focused on academic writing and citation style. The ISNAD Citation Style has been translated into English (ISNAD Citation Style, 2020), Arabic (ISNĀD: Niẓām tawthīq al-marājiʻ, 2022), and Persian (Shīvenāme-i Istināddehī be Reveş-i ISNAD, 2022. As of November 2023, ISNAD, freely accessible at www.isnadsistemi.org, is employed as a citation style by 54 institutes for M.A. theses and Ph.D. dissertations and by 156 peer-reviewed journals, both domestically and internationally, for scientific articles (www.isnadsistemi.org).

  Dr. Demir is the coordinator of the scientific event organized by Sivas Cumhuriyet University for the first time in 2018, which continued in the following years under the name of the Turkey Editors Workshop (editorlercalistayi.com). He is also the founder of the Turkey Editors Group, established in 2018 as a platform for editors to exchange experiences and consult on peer-reviewing books and journal publishing, which has now reached 498 members, all of whom are peer-reviewed journal editors.

  Dr. Demir began working as a faculty member in the Department of Theology at Ankara Yıldırım Beyazıt University, Faculty of Theology, in 2017 and continues to hold this position. He is also the editor of the internationally indexed journal Eskiyeni.

  Dr. Demir is the founding president of Oku Okut Association, established in 2020 to enhance students' reading skills, promote reading habits in society, and provide free services in this field. Oku Okut Association offers complimentary services through Oku Okut Academy (www.okuokut.org), an online education portal and reading club platform, and Oku Okut Publications, an open-access publishing brand (yayin.okuokut.org).

  Dr. Demir served as the executive director of the National Theology Citation Index project between 2017 and 2021. In 2023, he worked as a coordinator in the preparation of the Spelling Guide of Religious Culture and Ethics Concepts, which includes 2622 concepts published by the Presidency of the Board of Education. He is the coordinator of the project to ensure the spelling uniformity of the field concepts used in the textbook of religious education, launched by the General Directorate of Religious Education in August 2023. 

  Dr. Demir has publications on "Hanafī-Māturīdī religious understanding" and "scientific research and peer-reviewed publishing." He also provides training and seminars in Türkiye and the Turkic countries (avesis.aybu.edu.tr/abdemir)

  Demir, married with three children, has also served as a board member in various public institutions on issues related to his expertise. He is proficient in English and Arabic.