Authors

• Prof. Dr. Ali Karatas (ed)

  Sakarya University

  https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3365-0627

  Author Biography

  He was born in the district of Gümüşhacıköy in Amasya in 1977. He completed his primary and secondary education there in 1994. He graduated from the Faculty of Theology at Ondokuz Mayıs University in 1999. He worked for more than ten years as a teacher in schools affiliated with the Ministry of National Education. He received his master’s degree from the Institute of Social Sciences at Dicle University in 2002 with a thesis titled “Süleyman Ateş’s Contemporary Exegesis of the Glorious Qur’an and Its Sufi Aspects.” He completed his Ph.D. at the Institute of Social Sciences at Ankara University in 2011 with a dissertation titled “Exegesis of the Qur’an by the Qur’an in al-Māturīdī’s Ta’wīlāt al-Qur’ān.”

  He worked at Bartın University and Pamukkale University, also serving as vice dean during this period. He later served as the director of Kale Vocational School. He is currently a faculty member at the Faculty of Theology at Sakarya University. Karataş has authored books including “Imam al-Māturīdī’s Understanding of the Qur’an and His Method of Interpretation by the Qur’an,” “Narration in the Tafsir Tradition,” and “From Meaning to Interpretation: The Qur’an.” He has contributed chapters to books in his field and has edited several academic volumes. Karataş has also published articles and conference papers in national and international peer-reviewed journals. He serves as the editor-in-chief of the Journal of Tafsir Studies (TADER). He was awarded the title of Associate Professor on April 4, 2016, and was appointed as a full Professor on July 5, 2021.