Sociologist (b. 1929, Paşabahçe /
İstanbul - d. 19 June 2005, İstanbul). Her full name is Amiran Kurtkan
Bilgiseven. She attended Paşabahçe Primary School and graduated from Kandilli
High School for Girls and a Faculty of İstanbul University. After working at
İstanbul Finance Organization for sometime, she began working as an assistant
in the Chair of Sociology at İstanbul University, Faculty of Economics. She
became the doctor in 1960, assistant professor in 1965 and professor in 1970.
After serving as an academician in this department for many years, she retired
at the end of 1993. She still continues working in İstanbul (2003).
In 1990, she was selected as the Writer
of the Year in the Idea Section by the Writers Union of Turkey with her work
called Türkiye'de Sosyal Çözülme
Tehlikeleri (The Risks of Social Dissolution in Turkey). In 1998, she
supervised the project that was started countrywide with the support of the
Office of the Prime Ministry Family Research Center called “The Position of
Women in the Economy of the Country”, which was published as a book.
WORKS:
STUDY-RESEARCH:
Türkiye'de Küçük Sanayiin İktisadî
Ehemmiyeti (Economical Importance of Small Scale Industry in Turkey, 1962),
Maliye Sosyolojisi (The Sociology of
Finance, 1968), Adapazarı'nın
Sanayileşmesi (Industrialization
of Adapazarı, 1967), Eğitim Yolu ile Kalkınmanın Esasları (The Basis of the Development
of Education, 1970), Genel Sosyoloji
(General Sociology, 1976), Sosyoloji III
(Sociology III, 1977), Türk Milletinin
Manevî Değerleri (Moral Values of the Turkish Nation, 1977), Sosyolojik Açıdan Tasavvuf ve Laiklik (Laicism
and Sufism from a Sociological Aspect, 1975), Din Sosyolojisi (The Sociology of Religion, 1985), Sosyal İlimler Metodolojisi (The
Methodology of Social Sciences, 1982), Yugoslavya'
da Türk Kültürü (The Turkish Culture in Yugoslavia, 1987), Millî Eğitim Stratejimiz Nasıl Olmalıdır (How
Should Our Public Education Strategy Be, 1986), İslâmiyetin Kültürel Özellikleri ve İslâmî Kavramlar (Cultural
Characteristics of The Islamic Religion and Islamic Concepts, 1989), Türkiye'de Sosyal Çözülme Tehlikeleri
(The Risks of Social Dissolution in Turkey,1990), Türk İslâm Kültüründe Fert ve Cemiyet İlişkisi ve İslâmî Kavramlar
(The Relationship Between the Individual and Society in Turkish-Islamic Culture
and Islamic Concepts, 1995), Kadın'ın
Ülke Ekonomisindeki Yeri (Position of the Woman in the Economy of the
Country, 1998), Büyük Türk-İslâm Düşünürü
Niyazi-î Mısrî'den Esintiler (Breezes From the Great Turkish-Islamic
Philosopher Niyazi-î Mısrî, 1998), Kur'an'dan
Beş Hikmet (Five Wisdoms From The Koran, 2001), Emanet (Trust, 2002), İlm-i
Ledün (Wisdom of Divinity,
[General Theology]1998), İmtihan (The Examination, 2003).
Her translations have also been published.