Social sciences researcher. He was born on July 19,
1931 in Gaziantep.
He graduated from Gaziantep
High School, Ankara
University Faculty of Theology and DTCF Department of Philosophy (1957). He
worked as a teacher at Diyarbakir Imam
Hatip High
School (1957-1958) and Antalya Imam
Hatip School
(1959-1962); and as the founding director and teacher at Gaziantep Imam Hatip
School (1962-1965). He
was appointed as sociology of religion assistant at AU Faculty of Theology in
1965. He became a doctor in 1970, an associate professor in 1979 and professor
of sociology and psychology of religion in 1988. He was the head of chair, and
vice chair of Islamic Civilization and Social Sciences Department. He became
the founding chair of Inonu University Department of Sociology and worked there
for two years (1982-1984). He has established the Şanlıurfa Faculty of Theology
under Gaziantep University and worked as the first dean
of the faculty (1988-1992). He became the chair of Sociology of Religion and
Philosophy and Science of Religion at Dokuz Eylül
University, Faculty of
Theology. He was retired in 1998.
His research areas are; introduction to sociology,
sociology of religion, psychology, sociology of education, psychology of
education, history of theories of sociology and history of sociological
institutions. His articles were published in journals such as Ankara Üniversitesi İlahiyat
Fakültesi Dergisi, İslâm İlimleri Enstitüsü Dergisi ve Dokuz Eylül
Üniversitesi İlahiyat Fakültesi Dergisi.
WORKS:
RESEARCH: Türki-ye‘de
İlk Tarikat Zümreleşmesi Üzerine Din Sosyolojisi Açısından Bir Araştırma (1992), Kur‘an-ı Kerimde Çalışma
Kavramı (1994), İslâm Gerçeği (co-op., 1995).
TRANSLATION:
Muhyiddin İbnü‘l Arabi-‘nin Menkıbeleri (from Ebu‘l-Hasan el-Bağdâdî,
with Abdülkadir Şener, 1972), İslâm Sufileri (from R. Nicholson,
with M. Dağ, K. Işık, 1978), Es-Siyâsetü‘l-Medeniyye (from Farâbî, with
M. Aydın ve A. Şener, 1980), Hz. Muhammed Mekke‘de (from
Montgomery Watt, with Azmi Yüksel, 1986).
Also he
has a textbook named as Din Kültürü ve Ahlâk Bilgisi (1982).
REFERENCE:
TDOE – TDE Ansiklopedisi 2 (2002), İhsan Işık (TEKAA, 2009).
