Researcher of Islamic philosophy (b.
1938, Ahmetpaşa / Afyon). He attended Konya İmam
Hatip High
School, İstanbul Kabataş
High School for Boys (1961) and
graduated from Marmara
University, Faculty of
Theology (1965). He worked as a teacher at several schools in Elazığ (1965) and
İstanbul (1965). He was accepted to the university he graduated from, as the
assistant to Prof. H. Ziya Ülken in 1968. Later, he continued his studies at İstanbul University, Faculty of Literature, Chair
of Turkish-Islamic Thought. In 1973, he was transferred to Erzurum Atatürk
University, Faculty of
Theology (formerly the Faculty of Islamic Sciences) with the same office. He
continued his doctorate studies with İstanbul
University and in 1978 he
submitted his doctorate thesis with the title Batı ve İslâm Kaynaklarında Platon” (Plato in Western and Islamic
Sources). In 1982 he became assistant professor in Islamic theosophy.
In 1986 he was transferred to Konya Selçuk
University, Faculty of
Theology. He received his professorship degree in 1994 and he worked as the
Head of the Department of History at Sakarya
University, Faculty of
Science and Literature. After 1998, he continued his studies as an academic
lecturer at Marmara University, Faculty of Theology, School of Theology Vocation.
His first article appeared in the newspaper Yeni
Konya in 1958. His other articles were published in reviews of the faculty
and in Kubbealtı Mecmuası (1985).
WORKS:
İslâm Felsefesinin Kaynakları (Sources of
Islamic Philosophy, translation from Y. Kumeyr, 1976), İbn-i Sinâ'nın Düşüncesinde Varoluş ve F. Razî'nin İtirazları (Existence
in İbn-i Sina’s Thought with Oppositon by F. Razi, communiqué, 1984), Üç Türk-İslâm Mütefekkiri İbn Sinâ-Fahreddin
Râzi-Nasred-din Tûsî (Three Turkish-Islamic Thinkers İbn Sinâ-Fahreddin,
Râzi-Nasred-din, Tûsî, 1984), Eflatun
Kanunlarının Özeti (Summary of Plato’s Laws, translation from Farabi,
1985), Farabî (Farabi, 1987), Batı ve İslâm Kaynakları Işığında Platon (Plato
in Western and Islamic Sources, 1989), Batı'da
ve İslâm Dünyası' nda Eflatun'un Timaios'u (Plato’s Timaios in Western and
Islamic World, 1990), Türk-İslâm
Düşüncesi Üzerine (On Turkish-Islamic Thought, 1993).