Assoc. Prof. Dr. Mehmet Şahin, who is originally from Adana, was born in 1975. He attended primary school in İmamoğlu. He graduated from Kozan Imam Hatip High School in 1994. He completed his undergraduate education at Ankara University Faculty of Theology, his master's degree at the same university with his thesis titled "Mustafa Fevzi b. Numan Life, Works and Poems Related to Religious Literature" in 2006, and his doctorate at Ankara Yıldırım Beyazıt University in 2016 with his thesis titled "Prose Yûsuf u Züleyha Stories in Old Turkish Literature and Muhammed b. İbrahim's Yûsuf u Züleyhâ'sı".
He worked as a manager at Ankara Sincan District Governorate Social Assistance and Solidarity Foundation between 2004-2005. He worked as an archive staff at the Library and Archive Services Directorate of the Grand National Assembly of Turkey between 2006-2016. During these years, within the scope of the Independence Courts Project, he worked in the project of inventorying, classifying, transferring to electronic media, indexing and transferring from Ottoman Turkish to today's alphabet. Within the scope of this project, his books titled İstiklal Courts, Istanbul İstiklal Court, Elcezire İstiklal Court, Isparta İstiklal Court, Eskişehir İstiklal Court, Şark İstiklal Court (5 volumes), Second Term Ankara İstiklal Court (3 volumes) were published. His book titled TBMM Albümü 1920-2010 (4 volumes), which he prepared with the committee during his service in the TBMM, was published by TBMM Press and Public Relations Directorate Publications in 2010. In 2015, he wrote the book Anthology of Turkish Poets of the Century (Transfer to Ottoman Turkish) with Emrah Gökçe.
Şahin started to work as a lecturer in the Department of Turkish-Islamic Literature at Akdeniz University Faculty of Theology in 2016 and is still working as the head of the Department of Islamic History and Arts. He coordinates the ongoing International Multidisciplinary Congresses of the Journal of Turkish Academic Research. He is also the founder and editor of the internationally indexed journals Turkish Academic Research Review and Tanım Tenkit ve Teori.
Şahin has publications such as Ankaralı Râzî and Divanı, Esâsî Divanı, Basîrî Divanı, Küçük Kara Balık (Translation into Ottoman Turkish with Moosa Rahimi), Language of Documents (Moosa Rahimi).
Şahin, who has also served as a commission member in various public institutions on issues related to his field of expertise, is married and has 3 children. He speaks English, Arabic, Persian and Ottoman Turkish.

CONTACT US
email
mehmetsahin@akdeniz.edu.tr

Other email
drmentesli@gmail.com

Cell Phone
+90 533 056 9174

Work Phone
+90 0242 310 6888 Extension: 3401

Office
Akdeniz University, Faculty of Theology

Mail Address
Akdeniz University Faculty of Theology Dumlupınar Bulvarı, 07058 Konyaaltı, Antalya-Turkey

Holds a PhD from St Mary’s College, St Andrew’s University, UK. He participated in several international and national projects by contributing articles on Rumi, Islam and din (religion) and papers on the Islamic perceptions of other religions, religious language, religion and science, religion and aesthetics. His most recent publications include God Between Reason and Experience (2019), Philosophy of Religion (ed.) (in Turkish, 2019), Religious Pluralism and Islam (2014), Ernst Troeltsch’s Philosophy of Religion (in Turkish, 2012), Mawlawiya as Co-existential Experience (2009), and Rethinking Religious Freedom (2007). His main research interests are religious pluralism, religious language, religious experience, religion and aesthetics, Rumi studies, literature and philosophy, cinema and theology and philosophy through poetry. Since 2012, he has been working as Associate Professor of the Philosophy of Religion at the Theology Faculty of Akdeniz University, Antalya.

Assoc. Prof. Dr. Mehmet Şahin, who is originally from Adana, was born in 1975. He attended primary school in İmamoğlu. He graduated from Kozan Imam Hatip High School in 1994. He completed his undergraduate education at Ankara University Faculty of Theology, his master's degree at the same university with his thesis titled "Mustafa Fevzi b. Numan Life, Works and Poems Related to Religious Literature" in 2006, and his doctorate at Ankara Yıldırım Beyazıt University in 2016 with his thesis titled "Prose Yûsuf u Züleyha Stories in Old Turkish Literature and Muhammed b. İbrahim's Yûsuf u Züleyhâ'sı".
He worked as a manager at Ankara Sincan District Governorate Social Assistance and Solidarity Foundation between 2004-2005. He worked as an archive staff at the Library and Archive Services Directorate of the Grand National Assembly of Turkey between 2006-2016. During these years, within the scope of the Independence Courts Project, he worked in the project of inventorying, classifying, transferring to electronic media, indexing and transferring from Ottoman Turkish to today's alphabet. Within the scope of this project, his books titled İstiklal Courts, Istanbul İstiklal Court, Elcezire İstiklal Court, Isparta İstiklal Court, Eskişehir İstiklal Court, Şark İstiklal Court (5 volumes), Second Term Ankara İstiklal Court (3 volumes) were published. His book titled TBMM Albümü 1920-2010 (4 volumes), which he prepared with the committee during his service in the TBMM, was published by TBMM Press and Public Relations Directorate Publications in 2010. In 2015, he wrote the book Anthology of Turkish Poets of the Century (Transfer to Ottoman Turkish) with Emrah Gökçe.
Şahin started to work as a lecturer in the Department of Turkish-Islamic Literature at Akdeniz University Faculty of Theology in 2016 and is still working as the head of the Department of Islamic History and Arts. He coordinates the ongoing International Multidisciplinary Congresses of the Journal of Turkish Academic Research. He is also the founder and editor of the internationally indexed journals Turkish Academic Research Review and Tanım Tenkit ve Teori.
Şahin has publications such as Ankaralı Râzî and Divanı, Esâsî Divanı, Basîrî Divanı, Küçük Kara Balık (Translation into Ottoman Turkish with Moosa Rahimi), Language of Documents (Moosa Rahimi).
Şahin, who has also served as a commission member in various public institutions on issues related to his field of expertise, is married and has 3 children. He speaks English, Arabic, Persian and Ottoman Turkish.

CONTACT US
email
mehmetsahin@akdeniz.edu.tr

Other email
drmentesli@gmail.com

Cell Phone
+90 533 056 9174

Work Phone
+90 0242 310 6888 Extension: 3401

Office
Akdeniz University, Faculty of Theology

Mail Address
Akdeniz University Faculty of Theology Dumlupınar Bulvarı, 07058 Konyaaltı, Antalya-Turkey

Holds a PhD from St Mary’s College, St Andrew’s University, UK. He participated in several international and national projects by contributing articles on Rumi, Islam and din (religion) and papers on the Islamic perceptions of other religions, religious language, religion and science, religion and aesthetics. His most recent publications include God Between Reason and Experience (2019), Philosophy of Religion (ed.) (in Turkish, 2019), Religious Pluralism and Islam (2014), Ernst Troeltsch’s Philosophy of Religion (in Turkish, 2012), Mawlawiya as Co-existential Experience (2009), and Rethinking Religious Freedom (2007). His main research interests are religious pluralism, religious language, religious experience, religion and aesthetics, Rumi studies, literature and philosophy, cinema and theology and philosophy through poetry. Since 2012, he has been working as Associate Professor of the Philosophy of Religion at the Theology Faculty of Akdeniz University, Antalya.

Assoc. Prof. Dr. Mehmet Şahin, who is originally from Adana, was born in 1975. He attended primary school in İmamoğlu. He graduated from Kozan Imam Hatip High School in 1994. He completed his undergraduate education at Ankara University Faculty of Theology, his master's degree at the same university with his thesis titled "Mustafa Fevzi b. Numan Life, Works and Poems Related to Religious Literature" in 2006, and his doctorate at Ankara Yıldırım Beyazıt University in 2016 with his thesis titled "Prose Yûsuf u Züleyha Stories in Old Turkish Literature and Muhammed b. İbrahim's Yûsuf u Züleyhâ'sı".
He worked as a manager at Ankara Sincan District Governorate Social Assistance and Solidarity Foundation between 2004-2005. He worked as an archive staff at the Library and Archive Services Directorate of the Grand National Assembly of Turkey between 2006-2016. During these years, within the scope of the Independence Courts Project, he worked in the project of inventorying, classifying, transferring to electronic media, indexing and transferring from Ottoman Turkish to today's alphabet. Within the scope of this project, his books titled İstiklal Courts, Istanbul İstiklal Court, Elcezire İstiklal Court, Isparta İstiklal Court, Eskişehir İstiklal Court, Şark İstiklal Court (5 volumes), Second Term Ankara İstiklal Court (3 volumes) were published. His book titled TBMM Albümü 1920-2010 (4 volumes), which he prepared with the committee during his service in the TBMM, was published by TBMM Press and Public Relations Directorate Publications in 2010. In 2015, he wrote the book Anthology of Turkish Poets of the Century (Transfer to Ottoman Turkish) with Emrah Gökçe.
Şahin started to work as a lecturer in the Department of Turkish-Islamic Literature at Akdeniz University Faculty of Theology in 2016 and is still working as the head of the Department of Islamic History and Arts. He coordinates the ongoing International Multidisciplinary Congresses of the Journal of Turkish Academic Research. He is also the founder and editor of the internationally indexed journals Turkish Academic Research Review and Tanım Tenkit ve Teori.
Şahin has publications such as Ankaralı Râzî and Divanı, Esâsî Divanı, Basîrî Divanı, Küçük Kara Balık (Translation into Ottoman Turkish with Moosa Rahimi), Language of Documents (Moosa Rahimi).
Şahin, who has also served as a commission member in various public institutions on issues related to his field of expertise, is married and has 3 children. He speaks English, Arabic, Persian and Ottoman Turkish.

CONTACT US
email
mehmetsahin@akdeniz.edu.tr

Other email
drmentesli@gmail.com

Cell Phone
+90 533 056 9174

Work Phone
+90 0242 310 6888 Extension: 3401

Office
Akdeniz University, Faculty of Theology

Mail Address
Akdeniz University Faculty of Theology Dumlupınar Bulvarı, 07058 Konyaaltı, Antalya-Turkey