After completing her master’s degree with her thesis titled “Mathnawi Conversations of Kenan Rifai” at Istanbul University in 2012, Yalçınkaya pursued another master’s program at Harvard University Extention School of Religious Studies in 2013. As of the foundation of Üsküdar University Institute for Sufi Studies in 2015, she was assigned as a lecturer, which she currently carries out. In the meantime, she received her PhD at Uludağ University in 2020. Yalçınkaya knows Arabic, English and Persian. For the 2022-2023 academic year, she was accepted as a visiting fellow at Harvard University’s Center for Middle Eastern Studies and she is the author of “The Role of Sufi Thought as the Bridge between the Late Ottoman Empire and Early Republican Turkey: Attitudes of Sufi Intellectuals during the Transitional Period”. Some of her academic studies can be listed as follows: “Key Concepts in Ahmad al-Rifai’s Understanding of Sufism: Humility, Helplessness, Servility, Fragility, Destitute, Poverty”; “Kenan Rifai, One of the Late Ottoman Sheikhs: His Life, Works and Understanding of Sufism”; “On the Concept of Asceticism in Early Sufi Classics”. She has been participating in both national and international symposiums, and giving open public conferences and seminars in different cultural centers.
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6834-799X
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Education Status & Academic Titles
Undergraduate Degree
Marmara Üniversitesi İlâhiyat Fakültesi
Master Degree
İstanbul Üniversitesi Temel İslam Bilimleri
Master Degree
Harvard University Extention School Religion
Doctorate
Uludağ Üniversitesi İlahiyat Fakültesi Temel İslam Bilimleri
Supervised Graduate Theses
- Zühd Anlayışına 20. yy’dan Bir Yaklaşım: Prof. Dr. Esad Coşan Örneği, 2022.
Academic Activities > Publications
(Scopus) Toplam: 2IN PURSUIT OF TRUTH: D̲J̲ALĀL AL-DĪN RŪMĪ'S CONCEPTION OF HAPPINESS WITHIN THE MATHNAWĪ-I MA’NAWĪ
Türk Kültürü ve Hacı Bektaş Veli Araştırma Dergisi (2024)
Academic Activities > Publications
(Other Scientific Publications) Toplam: 5Mevlânâ Celaleddin Rûmi'ye Göre Üzüntüden Kurtulma ve Mutluluğa Erişme Yolları
Üsküdar Üniversitesi Psiko-Hayat Dergisi (2021)
Son Dönem Osmanlı Şeyhlerinden Ken’ân Rifâî: Hayatı, Eserleri ve Tasavvuf Anlayışı
Şırnak Üniversitesi İlahiyat Fakültesi Dergisi (2020)
Academic Activities > Book - Book Chapter
(Other) Toplam: 5- Ken'ân Rifâî: Hayatı, Eserleri ve Tasavvuf Anlayışı, Arzu Eylül Yalçınkaya, Nefes Yayınevi, 2021
- Son Dönem Mutasavvıflarına Ait Bir Hal Tercümesi: Semiha Cemal Hanım'ın Anlatımıyla Ken'ân Rifâî'nin Hal Tercümesi, Arzu Eylül Yalçınkaya,, Üsküdar Üniversitesi Yayınları-24, 2020
- XX. Asırda Nebevî Ahlakın Örneği: Şeyh Ken'ân Rifâî'nin Ahlâk Anlayışı, Arzu Eylül Yalçınkaya,, Kerim Vakfı Neşriyatı, 2019
- "Ken'ân Rifâî'nin Mesnevî Sohbetleri: Üçüncü Cilt İkinci Defter" İsimli El Yazmasının Tahlili ve Öne Çıkan Şerh Hususiyetleri, Arzu Eylül Yalçınkaya,, Nefes Yayınları, 2017
- Dinle Neyden, Arzu Eylül Yalçınkaya, Nefes Yayınları, 2008
Academic Activities > Editörlük
- Sohbetler, ISBN:, 2013.
- Ken'ân Rifâî'den Mesnevî Hatıraları, ISBN:, 2013.
- Hac Günlüğü, ISBN:, 2016.
Projects > Projects
- “Kadimden Geleceğe Doğu-Batı Köprüsü” Projesi, 2023.
- The Role of Sufi Thought as the Bridge between the Late Ottoman Empire and Early Republican Turkey: Attitudes of Sufi Intellectuals during the Transitional Period, 2023.
- Comprehensive Study of Sufism: Through Metaphysics, Literature, Music and Rituals, 2024.
- Comprehensive Study of Sufism: Through Metaphysics, Literature, Music and Rituals, 2024.
- Comprehensive Study of Sufism: Through Metaphysics, Literature, Music and Rituals, 2024.
- Comprehensive Study of Sufism: Through Metaphysics, Literature, Music and Rituals, 2024.
- Comprehensive Study of Sufism: Through Metaphysics, Literature, Music and Rituals, 2024.
- Comprehensive Study of Sufism: Through Metaphysics, Literature, Music and Rituals, 2024.
Academic Activities > Congress - Conference Participation
- American Academicy of Religion, 2022.
- Oxford Symposium on Religious Studies, 2022.
- Mecazdan Hakikate Uluslararası Aşk Sempozyumu, 2021.
- Harvard University Sohbet-i Osmani Lectures, 2019.
- Uluslararası "Fütüvvet Sultani Ebul Hasan Harakani" Sempozyumu, 2019.
- Uluslararası Tasavvuf Araştırmaları Günleri Öğrenci Sempozyumu, 2018.
- Meşkûre Sargut Anısına Kadın ve Tasavvuf Sempozyumu, 2018.
- Uluslararası Rahmet Kapısı: Ken'ân Rifâî Sempozyumu, 2015.
- Uluslararası Sultan Veled Sempozyumu, 2011.
- Uluslararası Kulun Niyazı Mısri Niyazi, 2010.
Administrative Activities
- Komisyon Üyesi / Member of Commission, Etkinlik Komisyonu, (2020 - Devam ediyor.)
- Komisyon Üyesi / Member of Commission, Sınav Programı Hazırlama Komisyonu, (2020 - Devam ediyor.)
- Komisyon Üyesi / Member of Commission, Kalite Komisyonu (Enstitü / Fakülte / MYO), (2018 - Devam ediyor.)